Ezekiel 19 — Lament over the lions and the ruined vine — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 19:7, 19:10, 19:11, 19:14
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 19 — Lament over the lions and the ruined vine
19:1–19:4 — The first cub taken to Egypt
Verse 19:1 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[19:1] “And you, raise a lament over Israel’s princes,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[19:1] “And you, take up a lament over Israel’s ruler,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew princes is plural, Greek ruler singular.
Verse 19:2 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[19:2] and say: What was your mother? A lioness! She lay among lions; among young lions she reared her cubs.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[19:2] and say: What was your mother? A cub! She came to be among lions; among lions she multiplied her cubs.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew identifies a lioness and lying down; Greek explicitly a cub and coming to be. Her offspring remain plural cubs.
Verse 19:3 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[19:3] She brought up one of her cubs; he became a young lion, learned to tear prey, and ate human beings.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[19:3] One of her cubs sprang away; he became a lion, learned to seize prey, and ate human beings.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew makes the mother rear him; Greek makes the cub spring away. The predation corresponds.
Verse 19:4 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[19:4] Nations heard about him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to Egypt’s land.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[19:4] Nations heard against him; he was caught in their destruction, and they led him with a muzzle to Egypt’s land.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew pit/hooks becomes Greek diaphthora, destruction, and a muzzle. The destination agrees.
19:5–19:9 — The second lion and Babylon
Verse 19:5 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[19:5] She saw that she had waited in vain, that her hope had perished; she took one of her cubs and made him a young lion.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[19:5] She saw that he had been driven away from her and that her support had perished; she took another of her cubs and appointed him a lion.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew frustrated waiting and lost hope contrasts with Greek the cub’s expulsion and lost support. Greek explicitly says another.
Verse 19:6 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[19:6] He moved among lions, became a young lion, learned to tear prey, and ate human beings.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[19:6] He moved among lions, became a lion, learned to seize prey, and ate human beings.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The repeated predatory career is complete in both.
Verse 19:7 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[19:7] He knew his widows and ruined their cities; the land and its fullness were desolated by the sound of his roaring.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[19:7] He fed in his boldness, desolated their cities, and destroyed the land and its fullness by the sound of his roaring.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew’s unusual knew-his-widows clause is retained, without changing widows to palaces. Greek has feeding in boldness and explicit active destruction of the land.
Verse 19:8 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[19:8] Nations from the surrounding provinces set themselves against him and spread their net over him; he was caught in their pit.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[19:8] Nations from the surrounding countries set themselves against him and spread their nets over him; he was caught in their destruction.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew has one net and a pit; Greek plural nets and destruction.
Verse 19:9 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[19:9] They put him in a cage with hooks and brought him to Babylon’s king. They brought him into strongholds, so that his voice would no longer be heard upon Israel’s mountains.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[19:9] They put him in a muzzle and a cage. He came to Babylon’s king, and he brought him into prison, so that his voice would not be heard upon Israel’s mountains.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek has a muzzle and prison, shifts from they to singular verbs, and lacks no longer. The final singular agent is not newly identified in the English.
19:10–19:14 — The vine without a ruling rod
Verse 19:10 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[19:10] Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted beside water; she was fruitful and full of branches because of abundant waters.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[19:10] Your mother was like a vine, like a blossom on a pomegranate tree, planted by water; her fruit and her shoot came from abundant water.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew in your blood remains an unresolved displayed expression. Greek instead has a blossom on a pomegranate tree and expressly names fruit and shoot.
Verse 19:11 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[19:11] She had strong rods for rulers’ scepters; its stature rose among the thick branches, and it was seen in its height among its many boughs.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[19:11] She had a rod of strength for a tribe of leaders; it rose in her size among the trunks, and it saw her size among the multitude of her branches.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew plural rods and scepters contrasts with Greek one rod and a tribe. Greek’s unusual active saw is retained against Hebrew’s passive was seen; its exact subject remains open.
Verse 19:12 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[19:12] She was uprooted in fury and cast to the ground. The east wind dried her fruit; they were torn off and dried up. Fire consumed her strong rod.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[19:12] She was broken off in wrath and thrown to the ground. The scorching wind dried her choice parts; her rod of strength was punished and dried up. Fire consumed her.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew uprooting/east wind/fruit differs from Greek breaking/scorching wind/choice parts. Greek gives punishment to the rod and fire consuming her; Hebrew fire consumes the rod.
Verse 19:13 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[19:13] Now she is planted in the wilderness, in a land of dryness and thirst.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[19:13] Now they have planted her in the wilderness, in a waterless land,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek names unnamed planters and one waterlessness term, against Hebrew’s passive planting and dryness/thirst pair.
Verse 19:14 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[19:14] Fire went out from a rod of her boughs and consumed her fruit. No strong rod remained in her, no scepter for ruling. This is a lament, and it became a lament.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[19:14] and fire went out from a rod of her choice parts and devoured her, and there was no rod of strength in her. A tribe is for a parable of lament, and it will become a lament.”
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew fire consumes fruit and ends the ruling scepter; Greek consumes her and explicitly gives a tribe and a parable of lament. The closing past/future distinction is retained.