English: the Psalter of the American 1928 Book of Common Prayer, in the Coverdale tradition, from Charles Wohlers’s transcription hosted by the Society of Archbishop Justus.
Church Slavonic: the Synodal liturgical text in the Следованная Псалтирь (Moscow Patriarchate, Moscow, 1978), from the Slavonic Computing Initiative’s electronic corpus. The source credits OCR to Orthlib and conversion from HIP to Unicode to Ponomar Technologies, Inc.
The columns correspond by psalm or section, not by individual verse. Each text retains its own verse numbering, and the Slavonic column labels its Slavonic psalm number. The Slavonic is a parallel witness, not a newly made translation of Coverdale’s English.
English and Slavonic psalm numbering| Coverdale | Slavonic |
|---|
| 1–8 | 1–8 |
| 9 / 10 | 9:1–21 / 9:22–39 |
| 11–113 | 10–112 |
| 114 / 115 | 113:1–8 / 113:9–26 |
| 116 | 114 and 115 |
| 117–146 | 116–145 |
| 147 | 146 and 147 |
| 148–150 | 148–150 |
The ranges follow this Slavonic transcription, which counts the superscription of Psalm 9 as verse 1. English Psalm 119 is Slavonic Psalm 118; its eight-verse sections follow the English daily appointments. Superscriptions retain their source numbering where present. Slavonic verse numbers are displayed as Cyrillic numerals; the source’s unlabelled first verse of Psalm 2 is supplied with the numeral а҃.
The 1928 monthly distribution governs both columns. Day 31 repeats day 30; February ends on its actual last day, and each month starts again at day 1. These month-end conventions follow traditional practice; they are not spelled out in the American 1928 rubric. Proper Psalms for particular occasions are not substituted.
The Church Slavonic spelling, accents, breathings, titla, and superscript letters are retained. The source’s variant readings appear in square brackets beside the main reading; footnote signs and Markdown markup are adapted for this display. Line breaks are reflowed. Kathisma headings, doxology cues, ancillary prayers, and Psalm 151 are outside this reader’s 1928 cycle and are not displayed. This is a sourced electronic reading text, not a newly collated critical edition.
The historical Psalter texts are public domain. The Slavonic Computing Initiative’s electronic corpus is provided under the MIT License, copyright © 2018 Slavonic Computing Initiative. The source snapshot and extraction script are available for inspection. Church Slavonic is set in Ponomar, bundled locally under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
The English text retains its Prayer Book numbering and source readings, including absent asterisks at Psalms 18:28 and 119:1 and a tilde at Psalm 109:21. This is a sourced electronic reading text, not a newly collated critical edition.