Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 139

This is a polyglot Bible display presenting what each tradition numbers as Psalm 139, laid out in four parallel columns: the King James Version (KJV) with interleaved Strong's concordance numbers, the ancient Greek Septuagint (LXX), the Hebrew Tanakh, and the Latin Vulgate. The KJV and Hebrew columns contain the well-known Psalm 139 of the Masoretic Text — a lyric meditation on divine omniscience and omnipresence, in which the psalmist declares that God knows every thought and word, that there is nowhere to flee God's presence (heaven, Sheol, or the farthest sea), and that God formed the speaker in the womb and ordained their days before birth. The Greek and Latin columns, however, contain a different poem — a plea for deliverance from violent enemies who set traps and sharpen their tongues like serpents — because the Septuagint and Vulgate number their psalms differently (merging Psalms 9–10 into one), shifting all subsequent numbers down by one, so their "Psalm 139" corresponds to Psalm 140 in the Hebrew and Protestant traditions. The most distinctive scholarly feature is this visible numbering divergence across traditions, which a casual reader might miss: the four columns are not four translations of the same text but actually two different psalms presented under the same numeral. Anyone consulting this resource for textual comparison, translation history, or canon studies would need to account for this Septuagint/Masoretic offset, and the Strong's tagging in the KJV column makes it additionally useful for word-level Hebrew-English concordance work.

Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 139

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