Ezekiel 32 — Pharaoh’s lament and the nations in the pit — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 32:27, 32:29, 32:30
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Ezekiel 32 — Pharaoh’s lament and the nations in the pit
32:1–32:10 — The sea monster captured
Verse 32:1 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:1] In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, YHWH’s word came to me, saying,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:1] In the eleventh year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the Lord’s word came to me, saying,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew dates this oracle to the twelfth year; Greek to the eleventh. The month and day agree.
Verse 32:2 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:2] “Son of man, take up a lament over Pharaoh, Egypt’s king, and say to him, ‘You were likened to a young lion of nations, but you are like a monster in the seas. You surged in your rivers, muddied water with your feet and trampled their rivers.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:2] “Son of man, take up a lament over Pharaoh, Egypt’s king, and say to him, ‘You were likened to a lion of nations, and you are like the dragon in the sea. You butted in your rivers, troubled water with your feet and trampled your rivers.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew young lion and sea monster becomes Greek lion and dragon. Hebrew ends their rivers; Greek your rivers.
Verse 32:3 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:3] Thus says Lord YHWH: I will spread My net over you with an assembly of many peoples, and they will haul you up in My dragnet.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:3] Thus says the Lord: I will throw nets of many peoples over you and haul you up with My hook,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew God’s net with peoples and their hauling in His dragnet becomes Greek peoples’ nets and God hauling with His hook.
Verse 32:4 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:4] I will abandon you upon the land and cast you onto the open field. I will make all the sky’s birds settle upon you and satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:4] and stretch you out upon the earth; plains will be filled with you. I will seat all the sky’s birds upon you and fill all the beasts of the whole earth with you.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek adds plains filled with the body; both retain birds and beasts consuming it.
Verse 32:5 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:5] I will lay your flesh upon the mountains and fill the valleys with your great bulk.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:5] I will lay your flesh upon the mountains and fill them with your blood,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew fills valleys with bulk; Greek fills with blood, without an expressed object after fill.
Verse 32:6 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:6] I will water the land with your flowing blood up to the mountains, and the ravines will be filled with you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:6] and the earth will be watered from your discharges, from your multitude upon the mountains. I will fill ravines with you.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew explicitly names blood here; Greek discharges and multitude. The agents of watering and filling differ.
Verse 32:7 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:7] When you are extinguished, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not shine its light.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:7] When you are extinguished, I will cover heaven and darken its stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon certainly will not show its light.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The cosmic darkening agrees, with an intensified Greek negative.
Verse 32:8 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:8] I will darken all heaven’s shining lights over you and put darkness upon your land, declares Lord YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:8] All the things shining light in heaven will grow dark over you, and I will put darkness upon your land, says the Lord, the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew explicitly has I darken the lights; Greek is read with the shining lights as the subject of growing dark. Both explicitly make God put darkness upon the land.
Verse 32:9 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:9] I will trouble the heart of many peoples when I bring your ruin among the nations, into lands you have not known.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:9] I will provoke the heart of many peoples when I bring your captivity among the nations, into a land you have not known.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew ruin and lands becomes Greek captivity and one land.
Verse 32:10 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:10] I will make many peoples appalled over you; their kings will shudder greatly over you when I brandish My sword before them. They will tremble moment by moment, each for his life, on the day of your fall.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:10] Many nations will grow gloomy over you; their kings will be utterly astounded when My sword flies before their faces, awaiting their own fall from the day of your fall.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew God’s causing appallment, shuddering and momentary fear for life becomes Greek gloom, astonishment and expectation of their own fall.
32:11–32:16 — Egypt’s strength destroyed
Verse 32:11 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:11] For thus says Lord YHWH: Babylon’s king’s sword will come upon you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:11] For thus says the Lord: Babylon’s king’s sword will come upon you
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both announce the Babylonian sword; Greek continues into 32:12.
Verse 32:12 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:12] By the swords of mighty men I will make your multitude fall, all of them ruthless men of nations. They will devastate Egypt’s pride, and all her multitude will be destroyed.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:12] with giants’ swords, and I will strike down your strength. All are scourges from nations; they will destroy Egypt’s arrogance, and all her strength will be shattered.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew mighty men becomes Greek giants; multitude becomes strength, and ruthless men becomes scourges.
Verse 32:13 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:13] I will destroy all her animals beside the abundant waters. No human foot will muddy them again, nor will an animal’s hoof muddy them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:13] I will destroy all her livestock beside the abundant water. No human foot will ever trouble it again, nor will livestock’s tread trample it.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The two agents’ removal agrees, with muddying versus troubling/trampling.
Verse 32:14 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:14] Then I will let their waters settle and make their rivers flow like oil, declares Lord YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:14] Thus their waters will then become still, and their rivers will flow like oil, says the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew explicitly gives God as the agent of both actions; Greek describes the waters and rivers acting.
Verse 32:15 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:15] When I make Egypt’s land desolate, and the land is emptied of its fullness, when I strike all who dwell in her, they will know that I am YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:15] When I give Egypt to destruction and the land is made desolate with its fullness, when I scatter all who dwell in her, they will know that I am the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew land emptied of fullness and striking inhabitants becomes Greek land with its fullness and scattering inhabitants.
Verse 32:16 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:16] This is a lament, and they will lament it. The nations’ daughters will lament it; over Egypt and all her multitude they will lament it, declares Lord YHWH.’”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:16] It is a lament, and you will lament it, and the nations’ daughters will lament it. Over Egypt and all her strength they will lament her, says the Lord, the Lord.’”
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew’s first lamenters are they; Greek directly addresses you. Multitude becomes strength.
32:17–32:25 — The descent and the fallen nations
Verse 32:17 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:17] In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth of the month, YHWH’s word came to me, saying,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:17] In the twelfth year, in the first month, on the fifteenth of the month, the Lord’s word came to me, saying,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek supplies the first month; Hebrew gives no month number here.
Verse 32:18 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:18] “Son of man, wail over Egypt’s multitude and bring it down—her and the daughters of mighty nations—to the lowest land, with those descending to the pit.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:18] “Son of man, lament over Egypt’s strength. The nations will bring her daughters down dead into the earth’s depth, with those descending to a pit.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Hebrew commands the prophet to bring Egypt and mighty nations’ daughters down; Greek makes nations bring Egypt’s daughters down dead.
Verse 32:19 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:19] Whom do you surpass in beauty? Descend and be laid with the uncircumcised.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[—] — No counterpart at this label in the declared Greek text.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: The declared Greek source has no printed 32:19 label. The related superiority question and descent command appear within Greek 32:21 and are translated there once.
Verse 32:20 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:20] They will fall among those slain by the sword. A sword is given; drag her away with all her multitudes!
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:20] They will fall with him among those wounded by the sword, and all his strength will lie down.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek has with him and his strength lying down; it lacks Hebrew’s sword-given and drag-her-away commands.
Verse 32:21 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:21] The mighty among warriors will speak to him from within Sheol, with his helpers: ‘They have descended; the uncircumcised lie down, slain by the sword.’
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:21] The giants will say to you, ‘Be in the depth of a pit! Whom do you surpass? Descend and lie with the uncircumcised among those wounded by the sword.’
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek addresses you, lacks helpers and Sheol here, and incorporates the descent and superiority material related to Hebrew 32:19. Hebrew mighty warriors becomes Greek giants.
Verse 32:22 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:22] There is Assyria and all her assembly, his graves around him, all slain, fallen by the sword,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:22] There Assyria and all his assembly, all wounded, were placed. Their burial is in the depth of a pit, and his assembly was around his tomb, all the wounded who fell by the sword,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek includes the pit and assembly-around-tomb material corresponding to the opening of Hebrew 32:23. The Hebrew pronoun shifts are retained.
Verse 32:23 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:23] whose graves were set in the far reaches of the pit, her assembly around her grave, all slain, fallen by the sword, who spread terror in the land of the living.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:23] who spread their fear upon the land of life.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek 32:23 contains only the closing fear clause; its preceding pit and tomb material is already in Greek 32:22.
Verse 32:24 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:24] There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave, all slain, fallen by the sword, who descended uncircumcised to the lowest land, who spread their terror in the land of the living and bore their shame with those descending to the pit.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:24] There is Elam and all his force around his tomb, all the wounded who fell by the sword and those descending uncircumcised into the earth’s depth, who spread their fear upon the land of life and received their torment with those descending to a pit,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew feminine Elam and shame becomes Greek masculine and torment. Greek’s sentence continues in 32:25.
Verse 32:25 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:25] Among the slain they set a bed for her with all her multitude, her graves around him, all uncircumcised, slain by the sword. Because their terror was spread in the land of the living, they bore their shame with those descending to the pit. He was placed among the slain.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:25] among the wounded.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek 32:25 is only this short continuation of 32:24. The Hebrew bed, graves, uncircumcision, terror and repeated shame clauses have no separate Greek counterparts here.
32:26–32:32 — The warriors, rulers and Pharaoh
Verse 32:26 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:26] There are Meshech, Tubal and all her multitude, her graves around him, all uncircumcised, pierced by the sword because they spread their terror in the land of the living.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:26] There were placed Mosoch and Thobel and all their strength around his tomb, all his wounded, all uncircumcised, wounded by the sword, who spread their fear upon the land of life.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The source forms Meshech/Tubal and Mosoch/Thobel remain. Greek repeats wounded and changes the possessors; Hebrew’s pronoun shifts are not silently regularized.
Verse 32:27 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:27] They will not lie with the fallen mighty men of the uncircumcised, who descended to Sheol with their weapons of war and put their swords beneath their heads. Their iniquities were upon their bones, for the terror of mighty men was in the land of the living.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:27] They lay with the giants who fell long ago, who descended to Hades with weapons of war and put their swords beneath their heads. Their lawless deeds were upon their bones, because they terrified giants in the land of life.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew explicitly says they will not lie with the mighty; Greek affirmatively says they lay with ancient giants. Hebrew uncircumcised becomes Greek long ago, and the final terror clause has a different subject/object relation.
Verse 32:28 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:28] You too will be broken among the uncircumcised and lie with those slain by the sword.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:28] You too will lie among the uncircumcised with those wounded by the sword.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek lacks Hebrew’s you will be broken.
Verse 32:29 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:29] There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who in their might were placed with those slain by the sword. They will lie with the uncircumcised and those descending to the pit.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:29] There were placed Assyria’s rulers, who gave his strength to a sword wound. These lay with the wounded, with those descending to a pit.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew names Edom, kings and princes; Greek names Assyria’s rulers. Greek has wounded rather than the Hebrew uncircumcised in the closing clause.
Verse 32:30 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:30] There are all the north’s princes and all the Sidonians, who descended with the slain, ashamed of their terror from their might. They lay uncircumcised with those slain by the sword and bore their shame with those descending to the pit.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:30] There are the north’s rulers, all Assyria’s generals, who descended wounded. With their fear and their strength they lay uncircumcised with those wounded by the sword and carried away their torment with those descending to a pit.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew Sidonians becomes Greek Assyria’s generals. Greek lacks the ashamed predicate and again gives torment instead of shame.
Verse 32:31 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:31] Pharaoh will see them and be comforted over all his multitude—Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword—declares Lord YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:31] King Pharaoh will see them and be comforted over all their strength, says the Lord, the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek has their strength, adds king, and lacks the explicit Pharaoh-and-army slain-by-sword phrase.
Verse 32:32 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[32:32] For I set his terror in the land of the living, and he will be laid among the uncircumcised with those slain by the sword—Pharaoh and all his multitude—declares Lord YHWH.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[32:32] For I have set his fear upon the land of life, and he will lie among the uncircumcised with those wounded by the sword—Pharaoh and all his multitude—says the Lord, the Lord.”
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew’s displayed terror suffix is provisionally read as his, corresponding to explicit Greek his; written/read-form analysis requires specialist review. Hebrew passive laying becomes Greek lying.