2 Samuel 22 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: MT 22:41
Each card keeps the independently rendered source readings above their shared comparison and reception notes. The badge records the source’s governing classification; disparate readings are marked in red. Each reading retains its original reference.
2 Samuel 22
The Lord delivers: a royal song in Christian praise
Editorial Christian reading of the complete song. Romans 15:9 explicitly reuses the praise-among-the-nations line found here and in Psalm 18 [NT3]; other connections are thematic.
22:1–7 | The Deliverer and the cry from distress
Verse MT 22:1 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:1
David spoke the words of this song to YHWH on the day YHWH rescued him from the hand of all his enemies and from Saul’s hand.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:1
David spoke the words of this song to the Lord on the day the Lord rescued him from the hand of all his enemies and from Saul’s hand,
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both introduce the song as David’s response to deliverance. This chapter is translated from its own checked texts, not replaced with the parallel Psalm 18.
Verse MT 22:2 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:2
He said: “YHWH is my rock, my fortress, and my Deliverer.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:2
and said: “Lord, my rock, my fortress, the One who delivers me for my sake!
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Hebrew names YHWH in a statement; Greek addresses the Lord directly. Greek’s emphatic for me is retained as for my sake; both describe personal rescue.
Verse MT 22:3 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:3
My God is my rock;
in Him I take refuge.
My shield, the horn of my salvation, my stronghold, my refuge, my Savior—You save me from violence.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:3
My God will be my Guard;
in Him I will trust.
My Defender, the horn of my salvation, my Helper, my refuge of salvation—You will save me from injustice.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew’s rock, shield, stronghold, and Savior differ from Greek Guard, Defender, Helper, and refuge of salvation. Greek uses explicit futures. The horn image is retained in both, expressing strength without replacing it with an interpretation.
Verse MT 22:4 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:4
I call upon YHWH, who is worthy of praise, and I am saved from my enemies.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:4
I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy of praise, and I will be saved from my enemies.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Hebrew’s imperfect forms can express recurring or expected rescue; Greek explicitly uses future verbs. The praise and deliverance agree.
Verse MT 22:5 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:5
The waves of death surrounded me;
torrents of destruction terrified me.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:5
The crushings of death surrounded me;
torrents of lawlessness stunned me.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew’s breaking waves contrast with Greek crushings. Hebrew beliyya‘al is destruction in the flood image; Greek explicitly lawlessness. Neither is converted into the proper name Belial.
Verse MT 22:6 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:6
The cords of Sheol encircled me;
the snares of death confronted me.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:6
The birth pangs of death encircled me;
the harsh assaults of death confronted me.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek has death where Hebrew has Sheol and changes cords and snares to birth pangs and harshness. Assaults supplies the contextual force of Greek plural harsh things. The different images remain visible.
Verse MT 22:7 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:7
In my distress I called upon YHWH;
I called to my God.
From His temple He heard my voice;
my cry reached His ears.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:7
In my distress I will call upon the Lord;
I will cry to my God.
From His temple He will hear my voice;
my cry will be in His ears.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew includes a completed hearing after its calls; Greek expressly projects calling and hearing into the future. Reached supplies the Hebrew final verbless clause’s connection. Temple is retained without identifying a particular earthly building.
22:8–16 | The divine coming and the shaken creation
Verse MT 22:8 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:8
The earth heaved and shook;
the foundations of heaven trembled and heaved because He was angry.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:8
The earth was shaken and quaked;
the foundations of heaven were shaken together and torn apart because the Lord was angry with them.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek names the Lord and adds with them, and uses a tearing verb where Hebrew repeats heaving. Both specify heaven’s foundations, not the mountains of the parallel psalm.
Verse MT 22:9 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:9
Smoke rose from His nostrils;
fire from His mouth devoured.
Coals blazed from Him.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:9
Smoke rose in His anger;
fire from His mouth will devour.
Coals were kindled from Him.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew’s nostril image also conveys anger; Greek expressly says anger. Greek’s katédetai is future, will devour [D13]. Both preserve mouth and coals rather than replacing the imagery with explanation.
Verse MT 22:10 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:10
He bent the heavens and came down, with thick darkness beneath His feet.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:10
He bent the heavens and came down, with thick darkness beneath His feet.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The descent and darkness imagery agree.
Verse MT 22:11 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:11
He rode upon a cherub and flew;
He appeared upon the wind’s wings.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:11
He sat upon cherubim and flew;
He appeared upon the wind’s wings.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew has riding and singular cherub; Greek has sitting and the borrowed indeclinable Cheroubin form, rendered cherubim without treating its ending as proof of a different number. Both checked texts say appeared, not the soared wording of the parallel psalm.
Verse MT 22:12 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:12
He made darkness booths around Him: gathered waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:12
He made darkness His hiding place around Him;
His tent was darkness of waters.
He made it thick with clouds of air.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek adds hiding place, makes tent singular, and turns the final cloud description into a thickening action. Hebrew’s gathered-waters expression is uncertain. Greek it supplies the unexpressed object of thickened, provisionally the darkness.
Verse MT 22:13 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:13
From the brightness before Him, coals of fire blazed.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:13
From the brightness before Him, coals of fire were kindled.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The brightness and burning coals agree; no hail is imported from the parallel psalm.
Verse MT 22:14 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:14
YHWH thundered from heaven;
the Most High gave His voice.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:14
The Lord thundered from heaven;
the Most High gave His voice,
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both preserve the Most High title and the voice image for thunder.
Verse MT 22:15 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:15
He sent arrows and scattered them, lightning and threw them into confusion.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:15
and sent arrows and scattered them, lightning and threw them into confusion.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both leave the attacked them unexpressed beyond the surrounding enemy context. The shared elliptical second sending clause is retained.
Verse MT 22:16 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:16
The channels of the sea appeared;
the foundations of the world were laid bare at YHWH’s rebuke, at the blast of breath from His nostrils.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:16
The outlets of the sea appeared;
the foundations of the inhabited world were uncovered at the Lord’s rebuke, at the blast of the breath of His anger.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek has outlets or releases and inhabited world; Hebrew channels and world. Greek names anger where Hebrew retains nostrils. Both connect the exposure with the divine rebuke and breath.
22:17–25 | Rescue and the claim of integrity
Verse MT 22:17 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:17
He reached from on high and took me;
He drew me out of many waters.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:17
He reached from on high and took me;
He drew me out of many waters.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Reached renders the shared sending-from-above expression idiomatically without adding a hand or messenger. Both retain many waters.
Verse MT 22:18 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:18
He rescued me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for they were too strong for me.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:18
He rescued me from my powerful enemies, from those who hated me, for they had grown stronger than I.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Hebrew begins with a singular enemy; Greek plural enemies. The stated inability to withstand them alone agrees.
Verse MT 22:19 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:19
They confronted me on the day of my calamity, but YHWH became my support.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:19
They confronted me on the day of my distress, but the Lord became my support,
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Calamity / distress renders the respective hardship terms. Both identify God as support amid confrontation.
Verse MT 22:20 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:20
He brought me into a spacious place;
He rescued me because He delighted in me.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:20
and brought me into a spacious place;
He rescued me because He delighted in me.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The movement into open space and the stated divine delight agree.
Verse MT 22:21 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:21
YHWH rewarded me according to my righteousness;
according to the cleanness of my hands He repaid me.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:21
The Lord repaid me according to my righteousness;
according to the cleanness of my hands He repaid me,
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Hebrew’s poetic imperfects are read retrospectively within the song’s deliverance account; Greek has completed actions. The speaker’s claim is retained without erasing the sins narrated elsewhere in the book.
Verse MT 22:22 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:22
For I kept YHWH’s ways and did not wickedly depart from my God.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:22
for I kept the Lord’s ways and did not act impiously by departing from my God,
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Both connect loyalty to God with keeping His ways. Departing supplies the force of the shared from construction after the different wrongdoing verbs.
Verse MT 22:23 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:23
All His judgments were before me;
from His statutes I did not turn aside.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:23
for all His judgments were before me, and I did not turn away from His statutes.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Hebrew’s final from it is singular despite the plural statutes, construed collectively in English; Greek has from them. Both preserve judgments and statutes as distinct terms.
Verse MT 22:24 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:24
I was blameless toward Him and kept myself from my iniquity.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:24
I will be blameless toward Him and guard myself beforehand against my lawlessness.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew recounts past integrity and restraint; Greek explicitly projects them into the future and uses a guarding-beforehand verb. Iniquity / lawlessness preserves the respective vocabulary.
Verse MT 22:25 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:25
YHWH repaid me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness before His eyes.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:25
The Lord will repay me according to my righteousness and according to the cleanness of my hands before His eyes.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek adds my hands and uses a future repayment; Hebrew has completed repayment and cleanness without hands in this verse.
Rabbinic: Rashi’s alternate interpretation at 22:27 connects this righteousness with David sparing Saul [R22].
Faithfulness, strength, and praise among the nations
The song’s royal victory language remains intact. Its closing praise participates in Paul’s account of Christ confirming the promises and the nations glorifying God [NT3, Romans 15:8–12].
22:26–37 | God’s ways and the strength He gives
Verse MT 22:26 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:26
With the faithful You show Yourself faithful;
with the blameless warrior You show Yourself blameless.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:26
With the holy You show Yourself holy;
with the complete man You show Yourself complete,
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew’s loyalty or kindness term differs from Greek holy. Hebrew names a warrior; Greek a man. Complete renders teleios alongside Hebrew blameless, preserving the reciprocal structure.
Verse MT 22:27 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:27
With the pure You show Yourself pure;
with the crooked You deal crookedly.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:27
and with the chosen You will be chosen;
with the crooked You show Yourself crooked.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew pure differs from Greek chosen. Both retain the unsettling reciprocal crookedness expression rather than supplying an unexpressed moral explanation of God’s action.
Verse MT 22:28 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:28
You save an afflicted people;
Your eyes are upon the haughty, whom You bring low.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:28
You will save the poor people, and You will bring low the eyes of the haughty.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew makes the eyes God’s, directed against the proud; Greek makes the elevated eyes the object of humbling. Afflicted / poor renders the respective descriptions.
Verse MT 22:29 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:29
You are my lamp, YHWH;
YHWH lights my darkness.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:29
You are my lamp, Lord;
the Lord will light my darkness for me.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Greek explicitly adds for me and future lighting. Both identify the Lord as the speaker’s lamp, complementing the royal lamp image of 21:17.
Verse MT 22:30 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:30
By You I charge a troop;
by my God I leap over a wall.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:30
By You I will run lightly armed;
by my God I will pass over a wall.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew has a troop as the object of the run or charge; Greek monozōnos describes being lightly equipped or singly girded. The wall-crossing image agrees.
Verse MT 22:31 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:31
God—His way is blameless.
YHWH’s word is refined;
He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:31
The Mighty One—His way is blameless.
The Lord’s word is strong, refined by fire;
He is a Defender to all who trust in Him.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek renders Hebrew El as the Mighty One, adds strong, and expressly evokes fire-testing. Shield / Defender and refuge / trust preserve the respective terms.
Verse MT 22:32 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:32
Who is God apart from YHWH?
Who is a rock apart from our God?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:32
Who is mighty apart from the Lord?
Who will be a Creator apart from our God?
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew’s God and rock contrast with Greek mighty and Creator. The Greek explicitly introduces creation language where Hebrew uses the rock metaphor; both assert divine uniqueness.
Verse MT 22:33 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:33
God is my strong refuge;
He frees my way to be blameless.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:33
The Mighty One strengthens me with power;
He shook my way free, blameless.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Both second clauses are difficult. Hebrew follows qere my way against written his way [R22], with frees construed as clearing the path. Greek expressly has a shaking-out verb, retained provisionally rather than replaced by made. The exact images require further review.
Verse MT 22:34 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:34
He makes my feet like hinds’ feet and sets me upon my heights.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:34
He makes my feet like deer’s feet and sets me upon the heights.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew follows qere my feet against written his feet [R22], and adds my to heights. Greek has generic deer rather than Hebrew’s female deer. Feet after the animal names supplies the shared comparison.
Verse MT 22:35 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:35
He trains my hands for war;
my arms bend a bronze bow.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:35
He trains my hands for war and broke a bronze bow with my arm.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew’s arms bend the bow; Greek makes God break it with the speaker’s singular arm. The different action and grammatical agent are preserved rather than harmonized as identical training.
Verse MT 22:36 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:36
You gave me the shield of Your salvation;
Your gentleness makes me great.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:36
You gave me the defense of my salvation;
Your heeding made me great,
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew has Your salvation; Greek my salvation. Hebrew’s disputed ‘anotkha is provisionally gentleness; Greek hypakoē is responsive hearing or obedience, rendered heeding in this address to God. Neither is made into the speaker’s obedience.
Verse MT 22:37 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:37
You made room for my steps beneath me, and my ankles did not slip.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:37
making room for my steps beneath me, and my legs did not shake.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew has an explicit broadening verb and ankles; Greek continues the previous sentence with a spaciousness phrase and has legs. Both describe secure movement.
22:38–46 | The enemies overcome
Verse MT 22:38 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:38
I pursued my enemies and destroyed them;
I did not turn back until I finished them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:38
I will pursue my enemies and wipe them out;
I will not turn back until I finish them.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew is read retrospectively with its completed destruction verb; Greek is explicitly future throughout. Both retain the uncompromising military language as the song’s speech.
Verse MT 22:39 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:39
I finished them and crushed them, so that they could not rise;
they fell beneath my feet.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:39
I will crush them, and they will not rise;
they will fall beneath my feet.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew adds finished them and recounts their fall; Greek continues future action. Neither column removes the violent victory imagery.
Verse MT 22:40 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:40
You girded me with strength for war;
You bowed my attackers beneath me.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:40
You will strengthen me with power for war;
You will bend my attackers beneath me.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew has girding and retrospective support; Greek strengthening and explicit futures. Both attribute the subjugation to God.
Verse MT 22:41 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:41
You gave me my enemies’ backs;
I cut off those who hated me.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:41
You gave me my enemies’ backs, those who hated me, and You put them to death.
Classification & Notes
Disparate
Text: Hebrew assigns the final cutting off to the speaker; Greek assigns the killing directly to God. Both retain the exposed-back image of enemies’ defeat.
Verse MT 22:42 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:42
They looked for help, but there was no savior;
they looked to YHWH, but He did not answer them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:42
They will cry out, but there is no helper;
they will cry to the Lord, but He did not listen to them.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew has looking or turning for help; Greek crying out. The Greek future cries and past refusal are retained, including their temporal tension. Hebrew’s repeated they looked supplies the second clause’s ellipsis.
Verse MT 22:43 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:43
I ground them like the dust of the earth;
like the mud of the streets I crushed them and stamped them down.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:43
I ground them like the dust of the earth;
like the mud of the streets I crushed them fine.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew adds the final stamping action. Greek’s streets term literally concerns ways out, here used for the public ways. Both retain dust and mud as comparisons.
Verse MT 22:44 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:44
You delivered me from the disputes of my people;
You preserve me as head of nations.
A people I did not know serves me.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:44
You will rescue me from the battle of peoples;
You will preserve me as head of nations.
A people I did not know served me.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew has my people and disputes; Greek peoples and battle, with explicit future rescue and preservation. The final service is present or continuing in Hebrew, completed in Greek.
Verse MT 22:45 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:45
Foreigners feign submission to me;
as soon as their ears hear, they obey me.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:45
Foreigners lied to me;
as soon as their ears heard, they obeyed me.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew’s denying or dissembling verb is provisionally feign submission in context; Greek explicitly lied. The contrasting temporal forms are retained. Neither column attributes this behavior beyond the peoples described in the royal song.
Verse MT 22:46 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:46
Foreigners wither and limp out of their enclosures.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:46
Foreigners will be cast away and stumble out of their enclosures.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew has withering and a difficult limping expression, not the trembling wording of the parallel psalm. Greek has being cast away and stumbling. Enclosures leaves the confinement or fortified-place sense open.
22:47–51 | The living Lord and enduring kindness to David
Verse MT 22:47 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:47
YHWH lives!
Blessed be my Rock!
Exalted be my God, the Rock of my salvation!
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:47
The Lord lives!
Blessed be my Guard!
My God, the Guard of my salvation, will be exalted!
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek repeatedly has Guard where Hebrew has Rock, and future exaltation where Hebrew is read as praise. Both retain the twofold protective title.
Verse MT 22:48 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:48
God gives me vengeance and brings peoples down beneath me.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:48
The mighty Lord gives me vengeance and disciplines peoples beneath me,
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek adds Lord and describes disciplining rather than bringing down. The attribution of vengeance remains explicit in both.
Verse MT 22:49 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:49
He brings me out from my enemies.
You lift me above my attackers;
You rescue me from the violent man.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:49
and brings me out from my enemies.
You will lift me above my attackers;
You will rescue me from the man of wrongs.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek explicitly projects the final two acts into the future and has wrongs where Hebrew has violence. Both shift from speaking of God to addressing Him.
Verse MT 22:50 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:50
Therefore I will thank You among the nations, YHWH, and sing praise to Your name.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:50
Therefore I will acknowledge You among the nations, Lord, and sing praise to Your name,
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: The thanksgiving or acknowledgment terms overlap in this praise setting. Both place the praise among the nations and retain the divine name as its object.
Saints: Romans 15:9 quotes the praise-among-the-nations line also found in Psalm 18:49, within Paul’s teaching that Christ confirms the promises and that the nations glorify God for mercy. The shared wording does not by itself establish which parallel Paul consulted [NT3, Romans 15:8–12].
Verse MT 22:51 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 22:51
He is a tower of deliverance for His king, showing kindness to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 22:51
He grants great deliverances to His king, showing mercy to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew follows qere migdol, tower, against the written form associated with making great; Greek explicitly magnifies deliverances [R22]. Kindness / mercy preserves the respective covenant terms. Both identify the anointed as David and include his continuing line; Christ-centered reception belongs in the headings and notes.