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Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 146

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This is a scholarly comparative text presenting a biblical psalm across four parallel textual traditions: the King James Version (with Strong's concordance numbers), the Septuagint (Greek), the Tanakh in Hebrew, and the Latin Vulgate. The Hebrew and KJV columns present Psalm 146, a hymn of praise urging trust in God rather than human rulers, cataloguing God's acts of justice — feeding the hungry, freeing prisoners, restoring sight to the blind, and upholding strangers, orphans, and widows — and concluding with God's eternal reign over Zion. Notably, the Septuagint and Vulgate columns diverge in content, presenting material corresponding to Psalm 147 in the Hebrew/KJV tradition (focused on God rebuilding Jerusalem, gathering Israel's exiles, counting the stars, and providing rain), which illustrates the well-known psalms numbering discrepancy between the Hebrew Masoretic text and the Greek/Latin textual traditions. The Septuagint superscription attributes the psalm to Haggai and Zechariah, a distinctive LXX feature absent from the Hebrew and KJV. This side-by-side format makes the document primarily a textual-critical resource, useful for comparing how the same liturgical material was transmitted, divided, and framed across the major ancient scriptural traditions.

Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 146

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