Anyone know why my psalms in my Bible are different from Fr Schmitz Bible in a year podcast?
Are you using an English translation based on the Vulgate text, or the Masoretic text? Both of these text-types have distinct orderings of the Psalms, and that may be contributing to it.
He’s using I believe the RSV standard and I’m using my doay rhimes Latin vulgate bilingual edition
I knew some words would be different but I had assumed the numbers would be the same! Apparently not :(
Yeah, the Masoretic and the Septuagint (on which the Vulgate numbering is based) texts not only have different wordings on occasion, but different perceptions on what constitutes each Psalm; one sometimes splits a psalm that the other sees as a single poem, and vice versa. There are parts that are the same, and others where the numbering is off (usually just by a single chapter, though). Neither seems to be the 'correct' readings of the original collection (the Septuagint preserves a few verses that obviously belong in the Hebrew but were lost by the time the Masoretic text was canonized, and the Masoretic text combine two Psalms that are obviously meant to be part of the same poem yet nonetheless remain distinct Psalms in the Greek and thus Latin); both represent alternative traditions of transmission.
Catholic Bibles in general split up the Psalms differently from Protestant Bibles. In addition, every now and then Catholic and Protestant Bibles will vary where they articulate chapter and verse. Jewish publications of the Tanakh also will occasionally vary from both the Catholic and Protestant divisions. This is all very annoying and I do not approve of it at all.