Ezekiel 28 — Tyre’s pride, Sidon and Israel’s restoration — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 28:3, 28:13, 28:14, 28:16
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 28 — Tyre’s pride, Sidon and Israel’s restoration
28:1–28:10 — The ruler’s pride
Verse 28:1 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:1] YHWH's word came to me, saying,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:1] The Lord's word came to me, saying,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The introductory formula corresponds.
Verse 28:2 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:2] Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre: Thus says Lord YHWH: Because your heart has grown high and you have said, I am a god; I sit in a seat of gods in the heart of the seas—yet you are a human, and not a god, though you set your heart like the heart of a god—
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:2] And you, son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre: Thus says the Lord: Because your heart was exalted and you said, I am a god; I have inhabited a god's dwelling in the heart of the sea—yet you are a human, and not a god, and you made your heart like a god's heart—
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The ruler's self-deification is retained as his claim, not endorsed. Hebrew elohim permits divine singular/plural construals; seat of gods is provisional, while the comparison remains a god's heart. Greek dwelling differs from Hebrew seat.
Verse 28:3 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:3] Look, you are wiser than Danel; no hidden thing is obscure to you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:3] Surely you are not wiser than Daniel? Did wise men not instruct you in their knowledge?
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek uses questions and wise teachers rather than Hebrew the assertion about hidden things. Hebrew Danel preserves its spelling and does not decide the debated identity by silently normalizing it to Daniel.
Verse 28:4 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:4] By your wisdom and understanding you made wealth for yourself and made gold and silver in your treasuries.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:4] Surely it was not by your knowledge or understanding that you made strength for yourself, and gold and silver in your treasuries?
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek continues a negative-expectation question; Hebrew is an assertion. Greek strength corresponds contextually to economic resources without being replaced with wealth.
Verse 28:5 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:5] By your great wisdom in your trade you increased your wealth, and your heart grew high because of your wealth.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:5] By your abundant knowledge and your trade you increased your strength; your heart was exalted in your strength.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The growth of resources and pride correspond, with wisdom/knowledge and wealth/strength distinctions retained.
Verse 28:6 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:6] Therefore thus says Lord YHWH: Because you set your heart like the heart of a god,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:6] Therefore thus says the Lord: Since you made your heart like a god's heart,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The accusation corresponds; Greek has one Lord.
Verse 28:7 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:7] therefore I am bringing foreigners against you, the ruthless of the nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and profane your splendor.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:7] therefore, look, I am bringing foreigners against you, scourges from nations. They will draw their swords against you and against the beauty of your knowledge, and lay your beauty out for destruction,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek adds against you and has beauty laid out for destruction rather than splendor profaned. Scourges renders the personal metaphor loimoi, literally pestilences, without making it a disease attack.
Verse 28:8 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:8] They will bring you down to the Pit, and you will die the deaths of one slain in the heart of the seas.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:8] and they will bring you down; you will die the death of wounded men in the heart of the sea.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the Pit and has wounded men; Hebrew retains the emphatic plural deaths.
Verse 28:9 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:9] Will you really say, I am a god, before the one killing you? You are a human, and not a god, in the hand of those piercing you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:9] Surely you will not say, I am a god, before those killing you? You are a human, and not a god. In a multitude
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek lacks in the hand of those piercing you and starts in a multitude before the next verse marker; this is printed here and completed in verse ten, not duplicated there.
Verse 28:10 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:10] You will die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of foreigners, for I have spoken—the declaration of Lord YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:10] of uncircumcised people you will perish by foreigners' hands, for I have spoken, says the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek continues the multitude phrase from verse nine and says perish, while Hebrew has deaths of the uncircumcised.
28:11–28:19 — Lament over the king of Tyre
Verse 28:11 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:11] YHWH's word came to me, saying,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:11] The Lord's word came to me, saying,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The new word formula corresponds.
Verse 28:12 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:12] Son of man, lift up a lament over the king of Tyre and say to him: Thus says Lord YHWH: You were a seal of proportion, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:12] Son of man, take up a lament over the ruler of Tyre and say to him: Thus says the Lord, the Lord: You were a seal of likeness and a crown of beauty;
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek ruler, seal of likeness, and crown differ from Hebrew king, difficult seal-of-proportion phrase, and perfection; Greek lacks full of wisdom. Hebrew's compressed seal expression is provisional, not expanded into an assured model of perfection.
Verse 28:13 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:13] You were in Eden, God's garden; every precious stone was your covering: carnelian, topaz, diamond, beryl, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, emerald, and gold. The workmanship of your tambourines and your pipes was in you; on the day you were created they were prepared.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:13] you came to be in the delight of God's paradise. You have been clothed with every good stone: carnelian, topaz, emerald, carbuncle, sapphire, jasper, silver, gold, ligurite, agate, amethyst, chrysolite, beryl, and onyx. You filled your treasuries and storehouses within you with gold from the day you were created.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek delight interprets Eden and substantially expands/reorders the stones, including silver. Its treasuries filled with gold differs from Hebrew the obscure workmanship/tuppim/neqabim clause, rendered provisionally as tambourines and pipes; settings and sockets is an alternative requiring review. All gemstone names are conventional equivalents, not secure modern mineral identifications.
Verse 28:14 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:14] You were an anointed cherub who covers, and I placed you; you were on God's holy mountain; you walked among stones of fire.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:14] With the cherub I placed you on God's holy mountain; you came to be among fiery stones.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew identifies the addressee as the covering cherub; Greek places him with a distinct cherub. Hebrew anointed and the construction of mimshach require review. Neither Satan nor Adam is inserted into the translation.
Verse 28:15 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:15] You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created until injustice was found in you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:15] You were blameless in your days from the day you were created until wrongdoings were found in you.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek days differs from Hebrew ways, with plural wrongdoings instead of singular injustice.
Verse 28:16 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:16] Through the abundance of your trade they filled your midst with violence, and you sinned. I cast you as profane from God's mountain and destroyed you, covering cherub, from among the stones of fire.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:16] From the abundance of your trade you filled your store chambers with lawlessness, and you sinned and were wounded away from God's mountain; the cherub led you out from among fiery stones.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek the cherub expels the addressee, while Hebrew God removes the addressee called covering cherub. Greek you filled chambers and were wounded differs from Hebrew they filled your midst and I profaned you away. The awkward Greek wounded away from is retained without silently turning it into a divine expulsion verb.
Verse 28:17 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:17] Your heart grew high because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom on account of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I set you before kings to gaze at you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:17] Your heart was exalted because of your beauty; your knowledge was corrupted together with your beauty. Because of your many sins I threw you to the ground; I placed you before kings to be made a spectacle.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek adds because of your many sins and makes corruption passive; its knowledge with beauty differs from Hebrew wisdom corrupted because of splendor.
Verse 28:18 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:18] Because of your many iniquities, through the injustice of your trade, you profaned your sanctuaries. I brought fire out from within you; it consumed you. I made you ashes on the ground before the eyes of all who saw you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:18] Because of your many sins and the wrongdoings of your trade you profaned your sacred places. I will bring fire out from within you; it will consume you. I will make you ashes on your land before all who see you.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek future fire and ashes contrasts with Hebrew completed-form presentation; Greek your land specifies possession absent from Hebrew the ground.
Verse 28:19 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:19] All who know you among the peoples are appalled at you; you have become a terror, and you will be no more forever.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:19] All who know you among the nations will become gloomy over you; you became destruction, and you will no longer exist forever.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek gloom and destruction differ from Hebrew appallment and terrors.
28:20–28:24 — Judgment against Sidon
Verse 28:20 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:20] YHWH's word came to me, saying,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:20] The Lord's word came to me, saying,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The new oracle formula corresponds.
Verse 28:21 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:21] Son of man, set your face toward Sidon and prophesy against her.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:21] Son of man, fix your face upon Sidon and prophesy against her,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The directed prophecy corresponds.
Verse 28:22 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:22] Say: Thus says Lord YHWH: I am against you, Sidon, and I will be glorified within you. They will know that I am YHWH when I execute judgments in her and show Myself holy in her.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:22] and say: Thus says the Lord: Look, I am against you, Sidon, and I will be glorified in you. You will know that I am the Lord when I execute judgments in you, and I will be sanctified in you.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek consistently addresses Sidon as you; Hebrew shifts to they knowing and judgments in her.
Verse 28:23 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:23] I will send pestilence into her and blood into her streets; the slain will fall within her by the sword against her all around. They will know that I am YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:23] Blood and death will be in your broad streets, and wounded men will fall by swords in you, all around you. They will know that I am the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek lacks I will send and has death instead of pestilence; second-person address and plural swords differ from Hebrew third-person address and singular sword. Hebrew the unusual fall form is rendered contextually.
Verse 28:24 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:24] The house of Israel will no longer have a malignant brier or a painful thorn from all around them who despise them. They will know that I am Lord YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:24] The house of Israel will no longer have a thorn of bitterness or a thorn of pain from all around them who dishonored them. They will know that I am the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The painful-neighbor imagery corresponds, with bitterness/malignancy and dishonor/contempt nuances retained.
28:25–28:26 — Israel restored to safety
Verse 28:25 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:25] Thus says Lord YHWH: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they were scattered and show Myself holy in them before the eyes of the nations, they will dwell on their land, which I gave to My servant Jacob.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:25] Thus says the Lord, the Lord: I will gather Israel from the nations where they were scattered, and I will be sanctified in them before the peoples and the nations. They will dwell on their land, which I have given to My servant Jacob,
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks house of and adds peoples alongside nations as witnesses; the gathering and Jacob promise correspond.
Verse 28:26 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[28:26] They will dwell on it securely, build houses, and plant vineyards. They will dwell securely when I execute judgments on all around them who despise them. They will know that I am YHWH their God.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[28:26] and they will dwell on it in hope, build houses, and plant vineyards. They will dwell in hope when I execute judgment on all around them who dishonored them. They will know that I am the Lord their God and the God of their fathers.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek twice in hope differs from Hebrew securely, and Greek adds and the God of their fathers.