Ezekiel 7 — The end has come — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 7:7, 7:11, 7:13, 7:14, 7:16, 7:23, 7:25
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 7 — The end has come
7:1–7:9 — The announced end and its reordered Greek sequence
Verse 7:1 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:1] YHWH’s word came to me, saying,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:1] The Lord’s word came to me, saying,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The word formula agrees.
Verse 7:2 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:2] “And you, son of man, thus says Lord YHWH to the soil of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:2] “And you, son of man, say, ‘Thus says the Lord to the land of Israel: An end has come; the end has come upon the four wings of the land.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek explicitly commands say and repeats has come; Hebrew’s corners and Greek’s wings retain the land’s four extremities.
Verse 7:3 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:3] Now the end is upon you. I will send My anger against you, judge you according to your ways, and bring all your abominations upon you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:7] Now the end is upon you. I Myself will send against you and exact retribution upon you in your ways; I will bring all your abominations upon you.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew 7:3 aligns with Greek 7:7. Greek leaves the object of send unstated and uses retribution; Hebrew explicitly sends anger and judges. No anger object is supplied to Greek.
Verse 7:4 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:4] My eye will not spare you, and I will have no compassion; I will bring your ways upon you, and your abominations will be in your midst. You will know that I am YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:8] My eye will not spare you, nor will I have mercy; I will bring your way upon you, and your abominations will be in your midst. You will recognize that I am the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew 7:4 aligns with Greek 7:8. Hebrew ways is plural, Greek way singular; the Hebrew recognition audience is plural, Greek singular.
Verse 7:5 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:5] Thus says Lord YHWH: An evil, a singular evil—behold, it comes!
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:9] For thus says the Lord:
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Hebrew 7:5’s formula aligns with Greek 7:9; the Hebrew singular evil announcement has no corresponding Greek clause. Greek’s formula leads directly into its 7:10.
Verse 7:6 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:6] An end has come; the end has come. It has awakened against you—behold, it comes!
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:3] The end has come
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Hebrew 7:6 aligns with Greek 7:3. Greek has only the brief arrival clause, continued in its 7:4; it lacks Hebrew’s repetitions and awakened-against-you wordplay.
Verse 7:7 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:7] Doom has come upon you, inhabitant of the land. The time has come; the day is near—tumult, not a joyful shout on the mountains.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:4] upon you, inhabitant of the land. The time has come; the day has drawn near, neither with tumult nor with birth pangs.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew 7:7 aligns with Greek 7:4. Hebrew announces tumult and denies a mountain shout; Greek denies both tumult and birth pangs, materially changing the imagery. Hebrew tsephirah, rendered doom, remains lexically uncertain.
Verse 7:8 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:8] Now soon I will pour My fury upon you and spend My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and bring all your abominations upon you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:5] Now soon I will pour My anger upon you and complete My wrath in you; I will judge you in your ways and bring all your abominations upon you.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Hebrew 7:8 aligns with Greek 7:5. The repeated judgment announcement is retained in each source’s actual position in the numbering crosswalk.
Verse 7:9 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:9] My eye will not spare, and I will have no compassion. According to your ways I will bring it upon you, and your abominations will be in your midst. You will know that I am YHWH who strikes.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:6] My eye will not spare, nor will I have mercy; I will bring your ways upon you, and your abominations will be in your midst. You will recognize that I am the Lord who strikes.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew 7:9 aligns with Greek 7:6. Both identify the striking Lord; Hebrew has according to your ways, Greek your ways as direct object, and recognition again differs in grammatical number.
7:10–7:14 — The day, the rod and the failed defenses
Verse 7:10 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:10] Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Doom has gone forth; the rod has budded; arrogance has blossomed.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:10] Behold, the end has come; behold, the Lord’s day! Even if the rod has blossomed, insolence has risen.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek names the end and the Lord’s day, lacks doom’s departure, and gives an even-if clause followed by rising insolence rather than blossoming arrogance.
Verse 7:11 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:11] Violence has risen into a rod of wickedness: nothing of them, nothing of their multitude, nothing of their abundance, and no eminence among them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:11] It will shatter the support of a lawless person, neither with tumult nor with haste.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew gives rising violence and repeated total losses; Greek gives shattering the lawless person’s support and denies tumult and haste. The Hebrew’s rare final abundance/eminence terms remain provisional, not silently replaced by the very different Greek.
Verse 7:12 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:12] The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is against all her multitude.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:12] The time has come; behold, the day! Let the buyer not rejoice, nor the seller lament;
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the Hebrew final wrath-against-the-multitude clause.
Verse 7:13 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:13] For the seller will not return to what was sold, while their lives are still among the living; for the vision against all her multitude will not turn back. No one will strengthen his life by his iniquity.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:13] for the buyer certainly will no longer return to the seller, and a person will not prevail in the eye of his life.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew concerns the seller returning to property and an irrevocable vision; Greek concerns the buyer returning to the seller and lacks the vision clause. Greek’s difficult eye-of-his-life expression is retained without substitution from Hebrew.
Verse 7:14 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:14] They have blown the trumpet and prepared everything, but no one goes to war, for My wrath is against all her multitude.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:14] Sound the trumpet and judge everything.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew reports preparation followed by failure to go to war under wrath; Greek commands trumpet sounding and judging, with neither refusal nor wrath clause.
7:15–7:22 — Fear, death and discarded wealth
Verse 7:15 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:15] The sword is outside, and pestilence and famine inside. Whoever is in the field will die by the sword; whoever is in the city, famine and pestilence will devour him.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:15] War by the sword is outside, and famine and death inside. The one in the plain will die by the sword, while famine and death will consume those in the city.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek expressly names war, has plain rather than field, and gives death instead of pestilence. The outside/inside distribution agrees.
Verse 7:16 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:16] Their survivors will escape and be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each over his iniquity.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:16] Their survivors will be saved and be on the mountains; I will kill them all, each in his injustices.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew depicts surviving fugitives moaning like doves; Greek explicitly has God kill all of them and has no dove image. The major outcome difference is preserved.
Verse 7:17 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:17] All hands will fall slack, and all knees will run with water.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:17] All hands will weaken, and all thighs will be defiled with moisture,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew names knees running with water; Greek names thighs defiled by moisture. The bodily fear imagery is retained without an unsupported medical explanation.
Verse 7:18 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:18] They will gird on sackcloth, and trembling will cover them; shame will be upon every face, and baldness upon all their heads.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:18] and they will gird on sackcloth; amazement will cover them, shame will be upon every face among them, and baldness upon every head.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The mourning signs correspond; Hebrew trembling becomes Greek amazement.
Verse 7:19 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:19] They will cast their silver into the streets, and their gold will become an unclean thing. Their silver and gold cannot rescue them on the day of YHWH’s wrath. They cannot satisfy their appetite or fill their inward parts, for it became the stumbling block of their iniquity.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:19] Their silver will be thrown into the broad streets, and their gold will be disregarded. Their lives certainly will not be satisfied, nor their bellies filled, because it became torment for their injustices.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the whole Hebrew inability-to-rescue-on-YHWH’s-day clause. Gold’s uncleanness becomes disregard, and a stumbling block becomes torment.
Verse 7:20 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:20] He made the beauty of his ornament a source of pride; they made in it the images of their abominations, their detestable things. Therefore I have made it an unclean thing to them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:20] They made choice ornaments a source of arrogance and made images of their abominations from them. Therefore I have given them over to them as uncleanness.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew shifts from singular ornament/agent to plural makers; Greek consistently has plural ornaments and makers. Neither column identifies the ornament more narrowly than the text.
Verse 7:21 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:21] I will give it into strangers’ hands as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil; they will profane it.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:21] I will hand them into foreigners’ hands to plunder them, and to the pestilent people of the earth as spoils; they will profane them.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Singular Hebrew it becomes plural Greek them. Greek loimoi names pestilent or ruinous people, not literal disease here.
Verse 7:22 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:22] I will turn My face away from them, and they will profane My hidden place. Violent intruders will enter it and profane it.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:22] I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My oversight; they will enter them unguarded and profane them,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew has God’s hidden place and named violent intruders; Greek has episkopē, rendered oversight provisionally, and unguarded entry into plural objects. No sanctuary identification is silently supplied.
7:23–7:27 — The collapse of peace and counsel
Verse 7:23 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:23] Make the chain, for the land is full of blood judgments and the city full of violence.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:23] and they will make a confused mixture, because the land is full of peoples and the city full of lawlessness.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew commands making a chain and indicts blood judgments; Greek narrates making a confused mixture and says the land is full of peoples. The command, agency and accusation differ materially.
Verse 7:24 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:24] I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will possess their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their sanctuaries will be profaned.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:24] I will turn back the arrogance of their strength, and their holy places will be defiled.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the Hebrew bringing of hostile nations and seizure of houses; both retain humbled power and defiled sanctuaries.
Verse 7:25 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:25] Anguish has come; they will seek peace, but there is none.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:25] Propitiation will come and will seek peace, and there will be none.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew announces anguish and plural seekers of peace; Greek announces exilasmos, propitiation, and a singular seeking verb. The startling Greek construction is preserved without harmonizing it to calamity.
Verse 7:26 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:26] Disaster upon disaster will come, and report upon report will arise. They will seek a vision from the prophet, but instruction will perish from the priest and counsel from the elders.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:26] Woe upon woe will come, and message upon message; a vision will be sought from a prophet, but law will perish from a priest and counsel from elders.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Successive reports and collapse of prophetic, priestly and elder resources correspond. Greek uses passive seeking and law; Hebrew active seeking and instruction.
Verse 7:27 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[7:27] The king will mourn; the prince will clothe himself in desolation, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. According to their way I will deal with them, and by their judgments I will judge them; they will know that I am YHWH.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[7:27] A ruler will clothe himself in devastation, and the hands of the people of the land will be paralyzed. According to their ways I will deal with them, and by their judgments I will exact retribution upon them; they will know that I am the Lord.’”
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the king’s mourning, retains one ruler, and gives paralyzed hands and retribution in place of trembling and judging.