Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by THE AMERICAN BIBLE UNION, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. TO THE READER. THE reader, who may take the trouble to compare the following version with the Hebrew text, will please bear in mind, that it is a revision of the common English version, and not an independent translation. No other changes have been made than seemed necessary to the clear expression of the sense. It has been the writer's aim, in all cases, to give the true sense of the Hebrew text, but with as little change as possible of the familiar phraseology of the common version. Mere verbal correspondence with the original has not been sought, either in words or in their order, except where emphasis or point of expression seems to require it. The Hebrew text followed in the revision is that of Baer's new critical edition of the Hebrew Psalter.* The notes are not intended to be exegetical, but only to furnish such occasional hints as seem necessary to the intelligent reading of the psalm. Where there is an alternative rendering or textual reading, in the margin, it is given as of nearly equal authority with that in the text, and may be substituted for it. The text and margin are equally parts of the revision. Where a word used in the first member is, by the Hebrew construction, necessarily implied in the second, it is inserted without brackets, the sentence being incomplete without it. The Introduction is not designed to be a critical discussion of the topics treated of, but only to give such information as may be useful to the general reader. *Liber Psalmorum Hebraicus. Textum masorethicum accuratius quam adhuc factum est expressit, brevem de accentibus metricis institutionem præmisit, notas criticas adjecit S. Baer. Præfatus est Fr. Delitzsch. 1861. |
