LutherBibel 1545S Psalm 90 does not scroll/line up correctly with other Bibles
I discovered today that when LutherBibel 1545S is in parallel with other Bibles, Psalm 90:2 and following verses in Psalm 90 are all one verse off in terms of scrolling properly. So that Psalm 90:2 in other translations is tied to Psalm 90:3 in LutherBibel1545S:

While Psalm versification does vary between translations due to how each one handles the superscriptions, I know enough German to know that verse 3 in the LutherBibel1545 is NOT the same as verse 2 in the NRSV or HMT-W4, and certainly not the same as the Luther12. It is rather the same as verse 3 in the other translations shown here.
I first noticed this actually when pulling up the text browser for verse 3 and scrolling through my long list of translations. Here's a screenshot of a smaller list that shows the same issue:

I think the issue is how the superscription in Psalm 90 has been handled. In some [but not all] other Psalms with superscriptions, Luther1545S (and Luther12 and HMT-W4) combine both the superscription and verse 1 into verse 1 (while NRSVS calls the superscription verse 0), for example Psalm 86:

In other cases, the HMT-W4 treats the superscription as verse 1, what NRSV considers verse 1 as verse 2, etc., and the LutherBibel1545S follows suit. I won't provide a screenshot of that here, but I can do so if it is helpful.
At Psalm 90, however, Luther1545 does a weird combination of approaches. HMT-W4 combines the superscription and verse 1 in one verse. Luther12 does the same. But Luther1545 treats the superscription as verse 1 and then combines the rest of HMT-W4's verse 1 with HMT-W4's verse 2 as verse 2. Accordance correctly aligns Luther1545 verse 1 with NRSVS verse 0. But because Luther1545's verse 2 should be spit into two different verses, everything else tracks wrongly. In the screenshot below, I have circled the parts of verse 1 and 2 in Luther 1545 that I believe should be combined in to verse 1 and aligned with verse of the HMT-W4 (as in the case for Luther12 here, and as happens in Psalm 86 above).

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