NAB vs iPieta ?

[Don9of11]

My friend sent me a bible verse from her NAB Psalm 34:4. She later checked her iPhone app iPieta and found for the same psalm verse the psalm is quite different and she is right.

In my NAB 1971 edition, Psalm 34:4 reads “Glorify the Lord with me, let us together extol his name”

In the iPieta app Psalm 34:4 reads “Let those be put to shame and disgraced who seek my life; Let those be turned back and confounded who plot evil against me”

This psalm passage happens to be Psalm 35:4 found in the NAB.

I was wondering if someone could explain why this is

 

[Belloc_Fan]

The Hebrew and Greek versions of the Old Testament numbered the Psalms differently. Same content, but different numbering . Some Catholic resources use the Hebrew, others the Greek. It’s confusing. More here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalms#Numbering

 

[Spencerian]

My friend sent me a bible verse from her NAB Psalm 34:4. She later checked her iPhone app iPieta and found for the same psalm verse the psalm is quite different and she is right.

In my NAB 1971 edition, Psalm 34:4 reads “Glorify the Lord with me, let us together extol his name”

In the iPieta app Psalm 34:4 reads “Let those be put to shame and disgraced who seek my life; Let those be turned back and confounded who plot evil against me”

This psalm passage happens to be Psalm 35:4 found in the NAB.

I was wondering if someone could explain why this is

Also note:

The numbering of verses in Scripture is relatively new (1500s).

As well, the copyrighted translation of the New American Bible uses more contemporary English phrasing over the 1500s English used in iPieta’s copy of the Douay-Rheims public domain translation.

 

[SonCatcher]

iPieta uses Douay Rheims for its Bible (as does CAF’s Bible quote feature. example at end of post).

D-R uses a different numbering than other versions and it is only in the last 100 years that Catholic translations have used the other numbering system (more about the competing numbering systems here). Both numbering systems (for chapters) were established before the rise of Protestantism, BTW.

[BIBLEDRB]Psalm 33:4[/BIBLEDRB]
[BIBLEDRB]Psalm 34:4[/BIBLEDRB]

iPieta seems to think that D-R is the only public domain Catholic translation. Perhaps they don’t know about the Catholic Public Domain Version or perhaps they only include translations with an imprimatur (which CPDV does not have). Anyway, CPDV uses the same numbering as D-R with only some notes recognizing the other numbering system.

 

[bmonk]

Another point of confusion with the Psalms is that in some versions the “titles” or “superscription” (the material that comes before the Psalm itself, such as Psalm 3’s “A psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom.”) is made verse 1 or even 1-2. Other versions leave this text unnumbered, and start the psalm itself at verse 1.

But the greater difference is the change in numbering between the Septuagint/Vulgate and the Hebrew Psalters, so that most of the Psalms between 10 and 146 are off by one, and at one point (Ps 114-115) by two, with the Vulgate being one psalm lower. The Douai-Reims version, being a translation of the Vulgate, uses that numbering.

In general, most citations of the Psalms these days use the Hebrew numbering. Some include the “other” number(s) in parentheses, such as Psalm 11(10):1-2.