Different Numbering Systems of the Psalms

In your Bibles and Grail translation some Psalms have a different number in parentheses (or in the margin). Instead some Bibles have a V in the margin and a different number beside it. This other number is the number of the Psalm in the Latin Vulgate translation. Thus V in the margin = Vulgate. An example would be 139(138). In the USA the Psalm numbering follows the number in the Hebrew. However in some European Catholic Bibles the numbering follows the Vulgate/Septuagint, even though a translation of the Hebrew text. This can cause confusion. The following table gives you the conversion of the different numbering systems

MT (Hebrew) / Catholic Bibles in the USA

V / LXX / Catholic Bibles in some other countries

1-8

1-8

9-10

9

11-113

10-112

114-115

113

116:1-9

114

116:10-19

115

117-146

116-145

147:1-11

146

147:12-29

147

148-150

148-150

(MT stands for Masoretic Text. Since the 6th century AD Jewish rabbis called Masoretes copied the Hebrew text, hence Masoretic Text).