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For the English readers, this is useful to compare the Greek and Latin...
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PSALM 4
Verse 2
G Ἐν ἄῷ ἐπικαλεῖσθαί με εἰσήκουσάς μου ὁ θεὸς :
“When I was invoking, God you answered me. »
L : cuм invocarem exaudivit me Deus.
“When I invoked him, God answered me. »
Rahlfs has, like L, the third person: εἰσήκουσέν , and does not give a variant. But many LVs, and a manuscript of the Stuttgart Vulgate, have the second person: "exaudisti".


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https://yvesdaoudal.fr/2026/09/22/les-psaumes-en-grec-et-en-latin/


Psalms in Greek and Latin
22 September 2026 Yves DaoudalLeave a comment

  The traditional Latin liturgy was demolished at a time when ecuмenism was making an important axis of post-conciliar doctrine. However, the Latin psalter and the Greek psalter were almost identical, the Latin psalter being a translation of the Greek psalter. There was an important element of unity, the psalms being truly the base of the liturgy. But we destroyed that cheerfully. It has been “forgotten” that the sacrosanct Council required to say the office in Latin (Sacrosanctum Concilium 101), “translations” in vulgar language made on a new Latin translation (the “Neo-Vulgate”), we have censored many verses and even suppressed several psalms, and we have destroyed the liturgical rhythm, extending the song of the  Office of Psalms over 4 weeks, which has nothing in common in either  Eastern or Western traditions..

    Reflecting on this, I began to compare the Latin and Greek psalms word for word. I guess that has already been done, but I couldn’t find anything. So I did it for myself, and this is the fruit of that work. It will be noted that the differences between the two psalters are minimal. Especially once it has been noticed that the Greek text is often that of the Alexandrinus, while the Latin text is translated from a Greek text from another tradition. Latin translation is quite often surprisingly accurate. For example, from the first psalm, διεξόδους is translated as “decursus”, when it was not necessary to translate the Greek prefix: if we want to respect this translation, in French we must say (along the) “course” (of the waters), while “course” is enough. Throughout the Latin Psalter we have “salutare”, which translates exactly Greek σωτήριον . A priori the word means “means of salvation”, but in the Septuagint he most often means salvation. So also "saltar" in the Latin psalter.
When the Greek and Latin liturgical versions differ, I went to see what was going on in the other versions I have (see below)....