Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 148

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This is a polyglot biblical text presenting Psalm 148 in four parallel columns: the English King James Version (with interlinear Strong's concordance numbers), the Greek Septuagint (LXX), the Hebrew Masoretic text, and the Latin Vulgate. Psalm 148 belongs to the final doxological cluster of the Psalter (Psalms 146–150) and is a hymn of cosmic praise calling every tier of creation — angels, celestial bodies, weather phenomena, land creatures, and all classes of humanity — to praise YHWH. Its central theological claim is that the Lord alone deserves universal worship because he spoke creation into existence and established it by perpetual decree. A distinctive structural move is the two-part sweep from heaven downward (vv. 1–6) to earth upward (vv. 7–13), closing with a particular promise to Israel as the people "near" to God. The polyglot format is a scholarly apparatus aimed at textual comparison, of the kind associated with critical editions or study Bibles, and the Septuagint heading ("Haggai and Zechariah") reflects a LXX superscription tradition absent from the Hebrew and KJV. This presentation would interest readers doing source-critical, translation, or liturgical study of the psalm across manuscript traditions.

Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 148

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