What does Psalms 19:15 say?

[luciasclay]

I am following along with the daily mass readings at home with my “Five Minutes With The Word” pamphlet we got for lent. Today’s psalter is Psalm 19:8-10,15.

I was reading in the RSV ( not the catholic one ) and I noticed Psalm 19 stops with verse 14. So I figured that perhaps the Catholic edition had a salutation or something at the end that the protestant version had decided wasn’t in the original text or something.

So I went over to EWTN for their daily readings, clicked thru to the RSV they link to and likewise there is no v 15 in it. ( EWTN does link to the Catholic edition of the RSV right ? )

So does anyone know what Psalm 19:15 says ? Or is it a typo in the daily reading list ?

Thanks!

 

[Among_Strangers]

DRV Ps 18:15: And the words of my mouth shall be such as may please: and the meditation of my heart always in thy sight. O Lord, my helper and my Redeemer.

There are two systems for arranging the psalms: the Septuagint and the Masoretic. This is the Septuagint system. In the Masoretic system, which is used in most modern Bible translations, this psalm is called Psalm 19,

 

[luciasclay]

DRV Ps 18:15: And the words of my mouth shall be such as may please: and the meditation of my heart always in thy sight. O Lord, my helper and my Redeemer.

There are two systems for arranging the psalms: the Septuagint and the Masoretic. This is the Septuagint system. In the Masoretic system, which is used in most modern Bible translations, this psalm is called Psalm 19,

So I pulled out my copy of the LXX with English translation ( no I don’t read greek ) and sure enough it has Psalms XVIII ( they number with Roman numerals here ) as what is Psalm 19 in my RSV copy, as you said. But they don’t have verse 15 it still stops at verse 14. This is the translation of the LXX done by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton ( 1807-1862 ) so I’m guessing its a protestant LXX translation and that, for some reason Sir Lancelot decided v 15 wasn’t part of it.

All of this I could understand except the RSV linked from EWTN didn’t have it either.



I’m not bent out of shape about this as I do understand the slight textual variations. Just was a bit startled this morning and already have learned a couple things.

So my follow up would be why the variation in numbering between masoretic and lxx. Is there an extra psalm in the masoretic copy or did the two numbering schemes just split one into two in the masoretic copy that was a single psalm in the lxx style.

And I know the chaptering was done very late I just wasn’t aware there were competing chapter numbering systems.

Thanks !

 

[Among_Strangers]

luciasclay:

So my follow up would be why the variation in numbering between masoretic and lxx. Is there an extra psalm in the masoretic copy or did the two numbering schemes just split one into two in the masoretic copy that was a single psalm in the lxx style.

And I know the chaptering was done very late I just wasn’t aware there were competing chapter numbering systems.

Thanks !

The Masoretic system splits the 9th psalm into two parts, Psalm 9 and Psalm 10.

Verses 1-21 make up the 9th psalm and vrs. 22-39 make up the 10th.

Why? I dunno.