Lesson 4 | Vocab
Song: בֵּאלֹהִים
Psalm 44 celebrates God’s deliverance of the Promised Land into Israel’s hand, and bases a prayer for continued deliverance on that fact. We too remind ourselves of God’s faithfulness to his promises in Christ, and base our prayers for rescue, for help, on his never-changing steadfast love. Enjoy singing along to verse 8! (verse 9 in the Hebrew text)
Let’s practice your reading some more.
Read Psalm 44:9 out loud in Hebrew.
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YouTube playlist: All songs from this courseThe more you listen to the songs in this course, the more you will learn the Hebrew verses which make up their lyrics. Thus, we strongly encourage you to listen to them throughout the day.
Why is it verse 9 in Hebrew, but verse 8 in English?
Due to different versification schemes, Old Testament verse and chapter numbers do not always line up between languages. In large part, there are three different versification schemes. (No need to memorize this information. It is here simply for the sake of explanation and curiosity.)
- Hebrew versification - Psalm titles are included in the versification.
- LXX-based versification (Russian translations and other languages historically associated with the Eastern church.) - Psalm titles are included in the versification. - Psalm 9-10 in Hebrew are combined into a single psalm, whereas Psalm 147 is broken into two. Thus, the chapter numbers of Psalms 9-147 do not match other versification systems.
- KJV-based versification (English translations and others languages historically associated with the Western church.) - Psalm titles not included in the versification. That is, verse 1 starts after the psalm title.
The result of all of these differences in the psalms is that often verse numbers will be off by one when comparing the English and Hebrew. In addition, chapters of other books of the Bible do not at times start and end at the same point, causing a similar issue.
Thankfully, you usually do not need to worry about this on Biblearc, as the app will automatically line-up the proper verses when using both Hebrew and English, despite differences in versification.