Micah 2 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 2:1, 2:4, 2:6, 2:7, 2:8, 2:9, 2:11, 2:12
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 2
Seized inheritances and the gathered remnant
Verse 2:1 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
2:1 Woe to those who plan iniquity and work evil on their beds! At morning light they do it, because it is in the power of their hands.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
2:1 They became people planning troubles and working evil on their beds, and at daybreak they carried them out, because they did not raise their hands to God.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew pronounces woe and explains the evildoers' power to act; Greek narrates their conduct and explains it by failure to raise hands to God. The causal statement changes substantially.
Verse 2:2 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
2:2 They covet fields and seize them, houses and take them; they oppress a man and his house, a person and his inheritance.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
2:2 They coveted fields and plundered orphans, oppressed houses and plundered a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek explicitly adds orphans as victims and makes the houses objects of oppression. Hebrew identifies seizure of the coveted fields and houses. Both preserve the final person/house/inheritance sequence.
Verse 2:3 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
2:3 Therefore thus says YHWH: “Look, I am planning disaster against this family, from which you will not remove your necks. You will not walk haughtily, for it is an evil time.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
2:3 Therefore thus says the Lord: “Look, I am planning calamities against this tribe, from which you will certainly not lift your necks, and you will certainly not suddenly walk upright, for it is an evil time.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew forbids lofty or haughty walking; Greek has upright walking with suddenly. The planned judgment and inescapable neck constraint agree; family/tribe reflects source vocabulary.
Verse 2:4 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
2:4 On that day someone will take up a taunt against you and lament a mournful lament: ‘We are utterly ruined! He changes the portion of My people. How He takes it away from me! To a turncoat He divides our fields.’
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
2:4 On that day a parable will be taken up against you, and a lament will be sung in melody, saying: ‘We have suffered grievous misery! The portion of My people was measured with a cord, and there was no one to prevent him from turning away; our fields were divided.’
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew changes the portion and assigns fields to a turncoat; Greek measures it with a cord and says no one prevented a turning away. Hebrew lashov, here turncoat, is uncertain. The shifts between My people, me and our are retained; the unnamed Greek him is not identified beyond the text.
Verse 2:5 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
2:5 Therefore you will have no one to cast a measuring cord by lot in the assembly of YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
2:5 Therefore you will have no one casting a measuring cord by lot in the assembly of the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both deny the addressee an allotment agent within the divine assembly.
Verse 2:6 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
2:6 ‘Do not prophesy!’ they prophesy. They will not prophesy about these things; disgrace will not retreat.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
2:6 Do not weep with tears, nor let them shed tears over these things, for he will not reject reproaches.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew's dripping idiom concerns prophetic speech; Greek explicitly concerns tears. The difficult final Hebrew negative is retained as disgrace will not retreat, without emending it to a claim that disgrace will not overtake them. The identities and boundaries of the quoted speakers remain uncertain.
Verse 2:7 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
2:7 Is it said, house of Jacob, ‘Has the Spirit of YHWH grown impatient? Are these His deeds?’ Do not My words do good to the one who walks uprightly?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
2:7 The one who says, ‘Jacob's house has provoked the Lord's Spirit’: Are these his practices? Are not his words good with him, and have they walked uprightly?
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew asks whether the divine spirit is constrained or impatient; Greek charges Jacob's house with provoking that spirit. Hebrew ends with first-person words benefiting an upright walker; Greek has third-person words and a plural walking clause. Greek's pronoun referents are uncertain and remain lowercase; its final subject could be the words or an implied human group.
Verse 2:8 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
2:8 But of late My people have risen as an enemy. You strip the mantle from the garment of those passing by securely, returning from war.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
2:8 And formerly My people stood opposed in enmity; facing his peace, they flayed his skin to take away hope—a shattering of war.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew stripping clothing from secure passersby becomes Greek flaying skin and removing hope. Hebrew's returning from war is literal but can be understood as averse to war; Greek's peace/hope/shattering syntax is difficult and kept provisional. No garment is inserted into Greek.
Verse 2:9 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
2:9 You drive the women of My people from the house of their delight; from their children you take My splendor forever.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
2:9 Therefore the leaders of My people will be cast out of their luxurious houses; because of their evil practices they were expelled. Draw near to everlasting mountains!
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew condemns expelling women and stripping children of divine splendor; Greek predicts the expulsion of leaders and adds a command about everlasting mountains. The victims, agency and closing assertion change.
Verse 2:10 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
2:10 Rise and go, for this is no resting place; because of uncleanness it destroys, with grievous destruction.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
2:10 Rise and go, for this is no resting place for you because of uncleanness. You were corrupted with corruption,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew's destructive subject is implicit, here it; Greek directly addresses the corrupted people. Greek starts with singular commands and moves to a plural you in the final clause, which continues into 2:11.
Verse 2:11 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
2:11 If a man walking in wind and falsehood lies, ‘I will prophesy to you of wine and strong drink,’ he would be this people's prophet!
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
2:11 you were pursued with no one pursuing. A spirit established falsehood; it dripped to you into wine and strong drink. And it will be from the drop of this people:
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew imagines a welcome lying prophet promising drink; Greek continues the rout, names a spirit establishing falsehood and retains dripping language. The difficult final drop clause leads into Greek 2:12; it is not reconstructed as Hebrew's description of the people's prophet.
Verse 2:12 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
2:12 I will surely gather all of you, Jacob; I will surely assemble Israel's remnant. I will put them together like Bozrah's sheep, like a flock within its pasture; they will be noisy with people.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
2:12 Jacob will surely be gathered with everyone. I will surely receive Israel's remaining ones; I will put their turning back together. Like sheep in affliction, like a flock within their resting place, they will leap out from among people.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew promises gathering all Jacob and noisy crowded flocks; Greek includes their turning back, sheep in affliction and a leap from people. Hebrew Bozrah follows the pointed name, although sheep of a fold is an alternative interpretation. Greek's ekdechomai can mean await or receive; receive is provisional in this gathering context.
Verse 2:13 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
2:13 The breaker has gone up before them; they have broken through, passed the gate and gone out through it. Their king has passed before them, with YHWH at their head.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
2:13 Through the breach before them they broke through, passed a gate and went out through it. Their king went out before them, and the Lord will lead them.”
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Hebrew names a breaker going up before the group; Greek opens with a breach and has no corresponding individual breaker. Both retain the king in front and divine leadership; Greek explicitly gives the Lord's leadership future force.