Micah 6 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 6:9, 6:10, 6:14, 6:16
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.
Chapter 6
YHWH’s case against His people
Verse 6:1 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
6:1 Hear now what YHWH says: “Rise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
6:1 Hear now the word of the Lord. The Lord said: “Rise, enter into judgment before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.”
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both introduce a case in the mountains' hearing. Greek repeats Lord as the explicit speaker; the contested relation to the mountains can also be rendered against them.
Verse 6:2 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
6:2 Hear, mountains, YHWH's case, and you enduring foundations of the earth! For YHWH has a case against His people, and He will contend with Israel.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
6:2 Hear, hills, the Lord's judgment, and you ravines, foundations of the earth! For the Lord has a case against His people, and He will argue it with Israel.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew mountains and enduring foundations become Greek hills and ravines as earth's foundations. The dispute with Israel agrees.
Verse 6:3 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
6:3 “My people, what have I done to you? How have I wearied you? Answer Me!
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
6:3 “My people, what have I done to you? How have I grieved you, or how have I troubled you? Answer Me!
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek expands the second Hebrew question into grief and trouble. The address and demand for an answer correspond.
Verse 6:4 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
6:4 For I brought you up from Egypt's land and redeemed you from the house of slaves. I sent Moses, Aaron and Miriam before you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
6:4 For I brought you up from Egypt's land and redeemed you from the house of slavery. I sent Moses, Aaron and Miriam before you.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both name the exodus, redemption and the same three leaders, including Miriam.
Verse 6:5 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
6:5 My people, remember what Balak king of Moab planned and what Balaam son of Beor answered him, from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may know YHWH's righteous acts.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
6:5 My people, remember what Balak king of Moab planned against you and what Balaam son of Beor answered him, from the rushes to Galgal, so that the Lord's righteousness may be known.”
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek turns Hebrew Shittim into rushes and explicitly says Balak planned against you. Hebrew knowing righteous acts becomes Greek the making known of righteousness. The from/to phrase is retained without adding a journey narrative to bridge its compressed syntax.
Verse 6:6 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
6:6 With what shall I come before YHWH and bow before God on high? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
6:6 With what shall I take hold of the Lord and grasp my God Most High? Shall I take hold of Him with whole burnt offerings, with year-old calves?
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew approaching and bowing becomes Greek taking hold and grasping. Greek adds my to God; the offerings and animals' age agree. The change of speaker from divine accusation to a worshiper's question is marked by the closed quotation above.
Verse 6:7 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
6:7 Will YHWH be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of streams of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my rebellion, the fruit of my body for the sin of my life?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
6:7 Will the Lord receive with thousands of rams or with ten thousands of fat-rich torrents? Shall I give my firstborn offspring for impieties, the fruit of my body for the sin of my life?
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek describes fat-rich torrents without expressly naming oil and uses plural firstborn offspring and impieties. Both interrogate escalating offerings, including a firstborn; these are questions, not commands to sacrifice children.
Verse 6:8 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
6:8 He has told you, human being, what is good. And what does YHWH require of you except to do justice, love steadfast kindness and walk humbly with your God?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
6:8 Has it been announced to you, human being, what is good? Or what does the Lord seek from you except to do justice, love mercy and be ready to walk with the Lord your God?
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew affirms an announced requirement and names humble walking; Greek opens with a question and names readiness to walk, adding Lord to your God. Justice and loving kindness/mercy agree; Greek readiness is not silently replaced with humility. Rabbinic: Rashi cites Jonathan on discreet walking in reverence and adds an interpretation of repentance privately between a person and God. The latter illustrates reception of humility; it is not a replacement for the verse’s three requirements [RASHI-MIC6].
Verse 6:9 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
6:9 YHWH's voice calls to the city—and sound wisdom will see Your name: “Hear the rod and the One who appointed it!
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
6:9 The Lord's voice will be called to the city, and He will save those who fear His name. “Hear, tribe! And who will adorn a city?
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew's difficult wisdom will see Your name becomes Greek saving those who fear His name. Hebrew rod and its appointer becomes Greek tribe and a question about adorning a city. The displayed Hebrew yirʾeh, see, is retained, without substituting the fear reading behind many familiar renderings. Rabbinic: Rashi construes wisdom with the prophet’s proclamation and the seer who contemplates God’s ways. This provides an alternative syntactic reading of the same see wording, without adopting the Greek fear-and-salvation clause [RASHI-MIC6].
Verse 6:10 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
6:10 Are there still in a wicked person's house treasures of wickedness and a detestable short ephah?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
6:10 Is there not fire, and a lawless person's house storing lawless treasures, and injustice with insolence?
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew's deficient ephah measure becomes Greek injustice and insolence; Greek also has explicit fire. Hebrew's rare haʾish is provisionally construed as are there, while Greek's first question is left with its difficult nominal construction. No missing Greek measure is supplied. Rabbinic: Rashi explicitly explains haʾish as the existential hayesh, is there, while taking the opening word as continued duration. The draft shares the existential analysis without importing his whole construction [RASHI-MIC6].
Verse 6:11 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
6:11 Can I be pure with wicked scales and a bag of deceptive weights?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
6:11 Will a lawless person be justified with a balance and deceptive weights in a pouch?
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew asks in the first person about purity; Greek names a lawless person's justification. Both expose fraudulent weighing. The Hebrew first person is retained without silently changing the verb to I will acquit.
Verse 6:12 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
6:12 Her rich people are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouths.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
6:12 From these they filled their wealth with impiety; those inhabiting her spoke falsehoods, and their tongue was exalted in their mouth.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew violent rich people becomes Greek wealth filled with impiety through the preceding frauds. A deceitful tongue becomes an exalted tongue. Both retain the city's lying inhabitants.
Verse 6:13 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
6:13 So I too have made you sick with striking, laying you waste because of your sins.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
6:13 And I will begin to strike you; I will obliterate you because of your sins.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew describes making the addressee sick by blows; Greek begins the striking in the future. The sin-related judgment agrees.
Verse 6:14 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
6:14 You will eat but not be satisfied, with emptiness within you. You will put things aside but not save them; what you do save I will give to the sword.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
6:14 You will eat but certainly not be filled. It will grow dark within you and turn aside, and you will certainly not be saved; whoever is saved will be handed over to the sword.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew's uncertain yeshḥakha is provisionally emptiness; Greek has darkness and turning aside. Hebrew attempts to save things become Greek the people's unsuccessful escape. Greek's implicit subject in turn aside remains uncertain; the final sword consequence is retained in both.
Verse 6:15 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
6:15 You will sow but not reap, tread olives but not anoint yourself with oil, and tread new wine but not drink wine.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
6:15 You will sow but certainly not reap; you will press olives but certainly not anoint yourself with oil, and press wine but certainly not drink it. The ordinances of My people will be obliterated.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek adds the destruction of My people's ordinances. The denied benefits of sowing, olive pressing and wine production agree; press/tread is supplied elliptically for wine from each preceding clause. Greek changes to plural you at the wine clause.
Verse 6:16 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
6:16 The statutes of Omri are kept, and all the practices of Ahab's house; you walk in their counsels, so that I may make you a desolation and her inhabitants a hissing. You will bear the reproach of My people.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
6:16 You kept the ordinances of Zambri and all the works of Achaab's house, and you walked in their counsels, so that I may hand you over to obliteration and her inhabitants to hissing. You will receive the reproaches of peoples.”
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew Omri becomes Greek Zambri, and My people's reproach becomes reproaches of peoples. Hebrew's impersonal keeping becomes a direct charge against you; Ahab/Achaab identifies the corresponding house. The Greek royal name is retained rather than silently corrected to Omri.