Ezekiel 35 — Mount Seir and its enduring hostility — Hebrew and Greek compared
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Ezekiel 35 — Mount Seir and its enduring hostility
35:1–35:9 — The mountain made desolate
Verse 35:1 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[35:1] YHWH’s word came to me, saying,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[35:1] The Lord’s word came to me, saying,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The opening formula agrees.
Verse 35:2 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[35:2] “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[35:2] “Son of man, turn your face toward Mount Seir and prophesy against it,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew set becomes Greek turn.
Verse 35:3 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[35:3] Say to it, ‘Thus says Lord YHWH: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir. I will stretch My hand against you and make you desolate and a devastation.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[35:3] and say, ‘Thus says the Lord, the Lord: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir. I will stretch My hand against you and make you a wilderness, and you will be laid waste.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The doubled Hebrew desolation nouns become a Greek wilderness and further passive verb.
Verse 35:4 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[35:4] I will make your cities ruins, and you will be desolate. You will know that I am YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[35:4] I will make desolation for your cities, and you will be a wilderness. You will know that I am the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Cities and mountain share the desolation and recognition.
Verse 35:5 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[35:5] Because you held everlasting hostility and handed Israel’s sons over to the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of final iniquity,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[35:5] Because you became an everlasting enemy and ambushed Israel’s house treacherously, by enemies’ hand, with a sword at the final time of injustice,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew handing Israel’s sons over and their calamity becomes Greek a treacherous ambush of Israel’s house, with an explicit enemies’ hand.
Verse 35:6 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[35:6] therefore, as I live, declares Lord YHWH, I will make you blood, and blood will pursue you. If you have not hated blood, blood will pursue you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[35:6] therefore, I live, says the Lord, the Lord: surely you sinned unto blood, and blood will pursue you.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Hebrew God making Seir blood and the repeated pursuit/hatred condition contrasts with Greek Seir sinning unto blood and one pursuit clause.
Verse 35:7 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[35:7] I will make Mount Seir desolate and a desolation, and cut off from it anyone going or returning.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[35:7] I will make Mount Seir a wilderness and laid waste, and destroy human beings and livestock from it,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew travelers going/returning becomes Greek humans and livestock.
Verse 35:8 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[35:8] I will fill its mountains with its slain. In your hills, valleys and all your ravines, those slain by the sword will fall.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[35:8] and fill the hills and your ravines with your wounded. In all your plains, those wounded by the sword will fall within you.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: The geographical list differs: Hebrew mountains, hills, valleys and ravines; Greek hills, ravines and plains. Slain becomes wounded.
Verse 35:9 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[35:9] I will make you everlasting desolations, and your cities will not be inhabited. You will know that I am YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[35:9] I will make you an everlasting wilderness, and your cities certainly will not be inhabited again. You will know that I am the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek adds again and emphasizes the negative; Hebrew’s final you is plural, Greek singular.
35:10–35:15 — The boast of possessing the two lands
Verse 35:10 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[35:10] Because you said, ‘The two nations and the two lands will be mine, and we will possess her,’ though YHWH was there,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[35:10] Because you said, ‘The two nations and the two countries will be mine, and I will inherit them,’ and the Lord is there,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew we will possess her becomes Greek I will inherit them; divine presence is past versus present.
Verse 35:11 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[35:11] therefore, as I live, declares Lord YHWH, I will act according to your anger and jealousy, which you displayed out of your hatred against them. I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[35:11] therefore, I live, says the Lord: I will deal with you according to your hostility and make Myself known to you when I judge you.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek compresses anger, jealousy and hatred into hostility, and changes divine self-revelation among them to to you.
Verse 35:12 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[35:12] You will know that I, YHWH, heard all your insults that you spoke against Israel’s mountains, saying, ‘They are desolate; they have been given to us for food.’
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[35:12] You will know that I am the Lord. I heard the voice of your blasphemies, because you said, ‘Israel’s mountains are desolate; they have been given to us for food.’
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek separates recognition from hearing and names the voice of blasphemies.
Verse 35:13 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[35:13] You magnified yourselves against Me with your mouths and multiplied your words against Me. I heard.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[35:13] You spoke grandly against Me with your mouth. I heard.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew addresses a plural you and has two speech accusations; Greek singular you and one.
Verse 35:14 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[35:14] Thus says Lord YHWH: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[35:14] Thus says the Lord: In the rejoicing of the whole earth, I will make you a wilderness.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The contrast between the earth’s joy and Seir’s desolation agrees.
Verse 35:15 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[35:15] As you rejoiced over Israel’s house’s inheritance because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir and all Edom, all of it, and they will know that I am YHWH.’”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[35:15] You will be a wilderness, Mount Seir, and all Idumea will be utterly consumed. You will know that I am the Lord their God.’”
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek lacks the opening retaliatory comparison and gives Idumea’s consumption. Its final singular you and their God differ from Hebrew they will know YHWH.