Micah 1 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 1:7, 1:8, 1:10, 1:11, 1:12, 1:13, 1:14, 1:15
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.
Chapter 1
The coming judgment and the towns’ lament
Verse 1:1 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
1:1 The word of YHWH that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
1:1 The word of the Lord came to Michaiah of Morashthi in the days of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, concerning what he saw about Samaria and Jerusalem.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The prophet, reigns and two cities correspond. Greek's designation of Morashthi is retained without inventing a father of that name.
Verse 1:2 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
1:2 Hear, all you peoples! Attend, earth and all that fills it! Let the Lord YHWH be a witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
1:2 Hear words, you peoples! Let the earth and everyone in it attend! The Lord will be among you as a testimony, the Lord from His holy house.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew calls all peoples and makes the Lord a witness against them; Greek calls for hearing words and places Him among them as testimony. Temple/house corresponds in context.
Verse 1:3 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
1:3 For look, YHWH is coming out of His place; He will descend and tread upon the heights of the earth.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
1:3 For look, the Lord is coming out of His place; He will descend and step upon the heights of the earth,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The divine coming, descent and treading of the earth's heights correspond.
Verse 1:4 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
1:4 The mountains will melt beneath Him and the valleys split open, like wax before fire, like water poured down a slope.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
1:4 and the mountains will be shaken beneath Him, and the valleys will melt like wax before fire and like water carried down a descent.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew mountains melt and valleys split; Greek mountains shake and valleys melt. Both retain the wax and descending water comparisons.
Verse 1:5 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
1:5 All this is because of Jacob's rebellion and the sins of Israel's house. What is Jacob's rebellion? Is it not Samaria? And what are Judah's high places? Are they not Jerusalem?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
1:5 All this is because of Jacob's impiety and the sin of Israel's house. What is Jacob's impiety? Is it not Samaria? And what is the sin of Judah's house? Is it not Jerusalem?
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek substitutes the sin of Judah's house for Hebrew Judah's high places. Both associate the capitals with the offenses; Hebrew's repeated interrogative is literally who, construed here as what for the identified offenses and sites.
Verse 1:6 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
1:6 I will make Samaria a heap in the field, a place for planting a vineyard. I will pour her stones into the valley and uncover her foundations.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
1:6 I will make Samaria a fruit watcher's hut in a field and a vineyard plantation. I will pull her stones down into a chasm and uncover her foundations.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew's rubble heap becomes Greek a fruit watcher's hut; valley becomes the broader chaos, a chasm or yawning depth. Foundations exposed and vineyard planting agree.
Verse 1:7 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
1:7 All her carved images will be smashed, all her prostitution wages burned in fire, and all her idols I will lay waste. For she gathered them from a prostitute's wages, and to a prostitute's wages they will return.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
1:7 They will cut up all her carved images and burn all her wages in fire, and I will consign all her idols to obliteration. For she gathered from prostitution wages and amassed from prostitution wages.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew ends with a future return to prostitution wages; Greek repeats past accumulation. The outcome of the acquired wealth changes. Greek also supplies unnamed plural agents for cutting and burning where Hebrew uses passives.
Verse 1:8 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
1:8 Because of this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked. I will make a lament like jackals and mourning like ostriches.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
1:8 Because of this she will lament and mourn; she will go barefoot and naked. She will make lamentation like dragons and mourning like daughters of sirens.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew's first-person lament becomes a feminine third-person lament in Greek. Jackals and ostriches become dragons and daughters of sirens; the Greek creatures are not silently replaced with Hebrew zoology. Hebrew stripped may also imply barefoot; its form requires review.
Verse 1:9 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
1:9 For her wounds are incurable; it has come to Judah, reached the gate of My people, as far as Jerusalem.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
1:9 For her blow has prevailed; it came as far as Judah and touched the gate of My people, as far as Jerusalem.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew describes incurable wounds, Greek a prevailing blow. Both move the calamity to Jerusalem's gate. The shift from the prophet's lament to My people is retained without adding a new speech attribution.
Verse 1:10 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
1:10 Do not tell it in Gath; do not weep at all. In Beth-leaphrah I have rolled myself in dust.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
1:10 You in Gath, do not magnify yourselves! You in Akim, do not rebuild from a house for laughter; sprinkle yourselves with earth in keeping with your laughter.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew's silence, weeping and Beth-leaphrah dust pun become Greek warnings against self-exaltation and rebuilding, with Akim and repeated laughter. Greek's house/laughter syntax is uncertain and rendered provisionally. The Hebrew online written form hitpallashti is first person, I have rolled, and is retained; no second-person reading is silently substituted.
Verse 1:11 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
1:11 Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in naked shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan has not come out. Beth-ezel's mourning will take its support away from you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
1:11 Dwelling well in her cities, the inhabitant of Sennaan did not come out to mourn the house adjoining her; she will receive from you a blow of pain.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek lacks the explicit Shaphir, naked shame and Beth-ezel names and supplies a neighboring house and painful blow. Hebrew's final taking/support clause and Greek's sequence of feminine subjects are difficult; the displayed provisional constructions preserve their distinct words without inventing an event.
Verse 1:12 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
1:12 For the inhabitant of Maroth writhed in longing for good, because disaster came down from YHWH to Jerusalem's gate.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
1:12 Who began good things for the woman dwelling in pains? For calamities came down from the Lord upon Jerusalem's gates,
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew names Maroth and describes longing or travail; Greek asks a question about a woman dwelling in pains. Greek's sentence continues with the chariot noise in 1:13. Hebrew ḥālā is provisionally writhed in longing, with waited in pain as an alternative.
Verse 1:13 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
1:13 Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish! She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for Israel's rebellions were found in you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
1:13 the noise of chariots and horsemen. Inhabitant of Lachish, she is a leader of sin to the daughter of Zion, for Israel's impieties were found in you.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew commands harnessing a chariot; Greek continues the preceding calamity statement with chariot and horseman noise. The charge against Lachish agrees, with beginning/leader as related but distinct descriptions.
Verse 1:14 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
1:14 Therefore you will give parting gifts to Moresheth-gath; the houses of Achzib will prove deceptive to Israel's kings.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
1:14 Therefore you will give away those being sent as far as the inheritance of Gath—vain houses; it became empty things for Israel's kings.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew Moresheth-gath and Achzib wordplay becomes Greek inheritance of Gath, vain houses and empty things. The Greek objects and attachment of those being sent are uncertain; the rendering remains provisional instead of supplying Hebrew parting gifts and named Achzib.
Verse 1:15 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
1:15 Again I will bring a possessor to you, inhabitant of Mareshah; Israel's glory will come as far as Adullam.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
1:15 Until I bring heirs to you, O inheritance dwelling in Lachish, the glory of Israel's daughter will come as far as Odollam.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew's Mareshah becomes Greek Lachish, and a coming possessor becomes plural heirs. Greek adds inheritance and daughter and opens with until. The corresponding Adullam/Odollam destination is retained, with the difficult Greek address explicitly provisional.
Verse 1:16 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
1:16 Make yourself bald and shear your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the eagle, for they have gone into exile from you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
1:16 Shave yourself and shear your hair for your delicate children. Enlarge your widowhood like an eagle, for they have been taken captive away from you.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: The mourning and children's captivity agree; Greek says widowhood where Hebrew says baldness. Hebrew nesher may designate a vulture as well as an eagle; the traditional broad eagle rendering does not settle its species.