Eloquent is a free & open-source application for research and study of God and His Word. It is developed specifically for Macintosh computers running Mac OS X.

Eloquent allows you to read and browse many different bible

Bible

The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...

s translations in different languages from Hebrew to Albanian. As well as reading devotionals, commentaries, dictionaries and lexicons, it also supports searching and advanced features such as services so that you can access the Bible in any program.

And because Eloquent is based on The SWORD Project

The Sword Project

The SWORD Project is the CrossWire Bible Society's free Bible software project. Its purpose is to create cross-platform open source tools—covered by the GNU General Public License—that allow programmers and Bible societies to write new Bible software more quickly and easily.-Overview:The core of...

, it is compatible with a growing collection of over 200 texts available in over 50 languages.

Version History

Version 2.3.5 continues with Snow Leopard development. However, starting with version 2.4.0, Eloquent has started Mac OS X Lion testing only, implementing features that are specific only to the Lion operating system.

Release Notes

Version		Features
2.3.3		Added spell checking context menu to notes display. It is now possible to add unknown words to the Mac OS X dictionary. Preview Pane now shows text as HTML rendered instead of plain text. Fixed problem where Eloquent didn’t honor the individual module font setting.
2.3.5		Fixed footnotes display in tooltip and preview pane updated version SWORD and module development utilities