Ezekiel 26 — Tyre’s fall and descent to the Pit — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 26:2, 26:20
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.
Ezekiel 26 — Tyre’s fall and descent to the Pit
26:1–26:6 — Judgment against Tyre
Verse 26:1 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[26:1] In the eleventh year, on the first of the month, YHWH's word came to me, saying,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[26:1] In the eleventh year, on the first of the month, the Lord's word came to me, saying,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both give the year and day without naming the month; none is supplied.
Verse 26:2 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[26:2] Son of man, because Tyre said of Jerusalem, Aha! The gateway of the peoples is broken; she has turned to me. I will be filled now that she is laid waste,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[26:2] Son of man, because Tyre said of Jerusalem, Well done! She is shattered; the nations have perished. She has turned to me; the full one has been laid waste,
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek nations have perished and the full one laid waste differ from Hebrew the gateway of peoples broken and Tyre's expected filling. The compact feminine references remain contextual rather than being replaced with an explanatory commercial narrative.
Verse 26:3 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[26:3] therefore thus says Lord YHWH: I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[26:3] therefore thus says the Lord: I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, as the sea rises with its waves.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The wave-like nations correspond; Hebrew Lord YHWH has one Lord in this Greek verse.
Verse 26:4 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[26:4] They will destroy Tyre's walls and tear down her towers. I will scrape her dust from her and make her a bare rock.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[26:4] They will throw down Tyre's walls and throw down your towers. I will winnow her dust from her and make her a smooth rock.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek shifts to your towers, then back to her, and has winnowing instead of Hebrew scraping. No uniform pronoun is imposed.
Verse 26:5 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[26:5] She will be a place for spreading nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken—the declaration of Lord YHWH. She will become plunder for the nations,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[26:5] She will be a drying place for nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken, says the Lord. She will become plunder for the nations,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek explicitly describes the nets' drying; the shared maritime ruin and plunder correspond. Greek has one Lord here.
Verse 26:6 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[26:6] and her daughters in the field will be killed by the sword. They will know that I am YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[26:6] and her daughters in the plain will be killed by the sword. They will know that I am the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Daughters is retained as the city's dependent settlements image; Greek plain differs slightly from Hebrew field.
26:7–26:14 — Nebuchadnezzar’s siege
Verse 26:7 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[26:7] For thus says Lord YHWH: I am bringing against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses, chariots, horsemen, an assembly, and many people.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[26:7] For thus says the Lord: I am bringing against you, Tyre, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the north—he is king of kings—with horses, chariots, horsemen, and an assembly of very many nations.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek directly addresses Tyre and specifies an assembly of very many nations, where Hebrew has assembly and many people. The parenthetical royal title follows the displayed Greek syntax.
Verse 26:8 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[26:8] He will kill your daughters in the field with the sword, set siegeworks against you, heap up a mound against you, and raise a shield against you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[26:8] He will kill your daughters in the plain with the sword, set an advance guard against you, build around you, and make a palisade and a ring of weapons around you; he will set his spears opposite you.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek expands the siege description with encircling construction, weapons, and spears, rather than Hebrew mound and raised shield. The equipment is described independently.
Verse 26:9 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[26:9] He will set the blows of his battering engine against your walls and pull down your towers with his swords.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[26:9] He will throw down your walls and your towers with his swords.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks Hebrew the blows of qobollo, provisionally battering engine. Hebrew swords may represent siege tools in context, but a precise machine identification is not asserted.
Verse 26:10 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[26:10] The dust of his many horses will cover you. Your walls will shake at the sound of horsemen, wheels, and chariots when he enters your gates as men enter a breached city.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[26:10] The dust of his multitude of horses will cover you, and your walls will shake at the sound of his horsemen and his chariots' wheels when he enters your gates like someone entering a city from the plain.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek entry from the plain differs from Hebrew entering a breached city; the dust and shaking walls correspond.
Verse 26:11 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[26:11] With his horses' hoofs he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will come down to the ground.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[26:11] With his horses' hoofs they will trample all your squares. He will kill your people with the sword and bring the support of your strength down to the ground.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek they/He shifts and support of strength differ from Hebrew the single attacker and mighty standing pillars. The precise Greek hypostasis expression is provisional; no specific monument is reconstructed.
Verse 26:12 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[26:12] They will plunder your wealth, loot your merchandise, tear down your walls, and demolish your desirable houses. They will put your stones, timber, and dust into the water.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[26:12] He will plunder your strength, strip your possessions, throw down your walls, and demolish your desirable houses. He will throw your stones, timber, and dust into the sea.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek one attacker differs from Hebrew plural plunderers; strength/possessions and sea differ from Hebrew wealth/merchandise and water.
Verse 26:13 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[26:13] I will silence the noise of your songs, and the sound of your lyres will no longer be heard.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[26:13] He will put an end to the multitude of your musicians, and the sound of your psalteries will certainly no longer be heard.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek He and musicians differ from Hebrew divine I and songs. The respective string-instrument names remain distinct without modern instrument equivalence.
Verse 26:14 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[26:14] I will make you a bare rock, a place for spreading nets. You will not be rebuilt, for I, YHWH, have spoken—the declaration of Lord YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[26:14] I will make you a smooth rock, a drying place for nets. You will certainly not be rebuilt, for I have spoken, says the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the internal I-YHWH identification and has one final Lord; both announce no rebuilding. The wording is translated without an added historical fulfillment claim.
26:15–26:18 — The coastlands lament
Verse 26:15 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[26:15] Thus says Lord YHWH to Tyre: Will not the coastlands quake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan and slaughter takes place within you?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[26:15] For thus says the Lord, the Lord, to Tyre: Will not the islands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan and a sword is drawn within you?
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek drawing a sword differs from Hebrew slaughter taking place; Greek doubles Lord here. Coastlands/islands reflects the respective geographic vocabulary.
Verse 26:16 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[26:16] All the princes of the sea will step down from their thrones, remove their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves in trembling, sit on the ground, tremble every moment, and be appalled at you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[26:16] All the rulers from the nations of the sea will step down from their thrones, remove the turbans from their heads, and strip off their patterned clothing. They will be utterly astonished, sit on the ground, fear their own destruction, and groan over you.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek adds maritime nations and replaces robes with head turbans; fear of their own destruction and groaning differ from Hebrew repeated trembling and astonishment at Tyre.
Verse 26:17 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[26:17] They will raise a lament over you and say to you: How you have perished, inhabited from the seas, praised city, mighty in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror to all her inhabitants!
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[26:17] They will raise a lament over you and say to you: How you were destroyed from the sea, praised city that spread her fear to all who live in her!
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks Hebrew inhabited-from-seas and the city's maritime strength with its inhabitants. The Hebrew settlement expression and repeated inhabitants are difficult and left close to the source, not replaced by a confident seafaring-population reconstruction.
Verse 26:18 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[26:18] Now the coastlands will tremble on the day of your fall; the islands in the sea will be terrified at your departure.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[26:18] The islands will be afraid from the day of your fall.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek has one fear clause and lacks Hebrew the second sea-islands/departure clause.
26:19–26:21 — Descent to the Pit
Verse 26:19 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[26:19] For thus says Lord YHWH: When I make you a ruined city like cities without inhabitants, when I bring the deep up over you and the many waters cover you,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[26:19] For thus says the Lord, the Lord: When I make you a desolated city like cities that will not be inhabited, when I bring the abyss up over you and much water covers you,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek explicitly uses future non-inhabitation; the flooding and deserted-city image correspond.
Verse 26:20 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[26:20] I will bring you down with those descending to the Pit, to the people of ancient times. I will make you dwell in the lowest parts of the earth, like ancient ruins, with those descending to the Pit, so that you will not be inhabited; and I will set splendor in the land of the living.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[26:20] I will bring you down to those descending into the pit, to the people of old. I will settle you in the depths of the earth like an everlasting wilderness, with those descending into the pit, so that you are not inhabited and do not rise in the land of life.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek negative no rising in the land of life differs materially from Hebrew positive I-will-set-splendor in the land of the living. Hebrew's abrupt final promise is retained, not emended to match Greek; Greek everlasting wilderness differs from ancient ruins.
Verse 26:21 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[26:21] I will make you a terror, and you will be no more. You will be sought, but never found again—the declaration of Lord YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[26:21] I will make you destruction, and you will no longer exist forever, says the Lord, the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the sought-but-not-found clause and has destruction rather than Hebrew terrors. The doubled Greek Lord is preserved.