Lamentations 3 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 3:5, 3:33, 3:45, 3:63
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 3
Hebrew source [BHS3] • Greek source [LXX3]
Affliction, remembrance, hope and prayer (3:1–66)
Verse 3:1 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:1] I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of His fury.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:1] I am the man who sees poverty under the rod of His fury against me.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek poverty and added against me differ from Hebrew affliction. The first-person male speaker is not explicitly named in this verse. Rabbinic reception [RASHI3]: Rashi identifies the speaker as Jeremiah, who personally witnessed the Temple’s destruction unlike earlier prophets who foretold it. This identification is commentary here; the Hebrew verse itself does not name him.
Verse 3:2 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:2] He drove me and led me into darkness, not light.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:2] He took me and led me away into darkness, not light.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The verbs of leading differ slightly.
Verse 3:3 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:3] Indeed, against me He turns His hand again and again all day.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:3] Indeed, against me He turned His hand all day.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew's repeated turning is expressed explicitly.
Verse 3:4 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:4] He wore away my flesh and my skin; He broke my bones.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:4] He made my flesh and my skin old; He shattered my bones.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both retain physical wasting imagery.
Verse 3:5 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:5] He built against me and surrounded me with poison and hardship.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:5] He built against me, surrounded my head and toiled.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek reads head rather than Hebrew poison and makes the final hardship expression a verb. Its unexpressed laboring subject remains the preceding he.
Verse 3:6 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:6] He made me dwell in dark places like those long dead.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:6] He made me dwell in dark places like the dead of ages.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The age expression may denote long duration or enduring death; neither column inserts an afterlife system.
Verse 3:7 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:7] He walled me in so I cannot go out; He made my bronze fetters heavy.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:7] He built against me, and I will not go out; He made my bronze heavy.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Fetters supplies the object represented by bronze in Hebrew; Greek retains the material expression.
Verse 3:8 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:8] Even when I cry and call for help, He blocks my prayer.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:8] Even though I will cry and call out, He blocked my prayer.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The lament's claim of obstructed prayer remains explicit.
Verse 3:9 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:9] He walled my roads with hewn stone and twisted my paths.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:9] He built up my roads, blocked my paths and troubled them.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek lacks the hewn stone and adds a disturbing action; them is supplied from the paths.
Verse 3:10 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:10] He is a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:10] He is a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hidden places.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The threatening-animal comparison is retained.
Verse 3:11 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:11] He turned my ways aside and tore me apart; He made me desolate.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:11] He pursued me when I turned away and brought me to a stop; He made me destroyed.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek pursuit and stopping differ from Hebrew turning ways and tearing. Greek's final feminine participle shifts from the opening male voice; English cannot reproduce that gender distinction without adding a subject.
Verse 3:12 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:12] He bent His bow and set me as a target for the arrow.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:12] He drew His bow and fixed me as a target for a missile.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both make the speaker the divine archer's target.
Verse 3:13 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:13] He drove the sons of His quiver into my kidneys.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:13] He drove the arrows of His quiver into my kidneys.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew sons of the quiver is the image for arrows; the organ is retained rather than generalized to heart.
Verse 3:14 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:14] I became a laughingstock to all my people, their song all day.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:14] I became a laughingstock to all my people, their psalm all day.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek psalmos names the taunting song here; it is not an inserted liturgical title.
Verse 3:15 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:15] He filled me with bitter things and drenched me with wormwood.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:15] He filled me with bitterness and made me drunk with gall.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek gall differs from Hebrew wormwood; the bitter-drink imagery agrees.
Verse 3:16 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:16] He ground my teeth with gravel and pressed me down in ashes.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:16] He knocked out my teeth with a pebble and fed me ashes.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek feeding ashes differs from Hebrew's difficult pressing or covering action. No further injury details are invented.
Verse 3:17 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:17] My soul was driven away from peace; I forgot goodness.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:17] He drove my soul away from peace; I forgot good things.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew's verbal subject permits more than one construal; the passive presentation avoids adding a new agent. Greek is actively he.
Verse 3:18 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:18] I said, My endurance has perished, and my hope from YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:18] I said, My victory has perished, and my hope from the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew netsah is provisionally endurance or lasting strength; Greek explicitly has victory.
Verse 3:19 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:19] Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and poison.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:19] I remembered, from my poverty and my persecution, my bitterness and gall.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew asks for remembrance; Greek reports first-person remembrance and has distinct suffering terms.
Verse 3:20 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:20] My soul continually remembers and sinks down within me.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:20] My soul will remember and brood over me.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek prolonged meditation differs from Hebrew sinking down. The inward first-person construction remains visible. Hebrew sinking down follows the traditional read form, explicitly distinguished from the written form in the Chabad presentation [RASHI3]; this is a disclosed reading choice, not a claim that the publisher displays that form.
Verse 3:21 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:21] This I bring back to my heart; therefore I will hope.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:21] This I will set in my heart; therefore I will endure.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek enduring and Hebrew hoping are related responses but not merged.
Verse 3:22 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:22] YHWH's acts of steadfast love—because we have not come to an end, because His compassions have not ceased.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[—] [No corresponding verse is displayed in the declared Greek running text.]
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The actual publisher Greek moves from 3:21 to 3:25; 3:22–24 are absent there. Hebrew reads we have not come to an end, not His mercies have not ended in the first clause. No claim is made that every Greek witness lacks these verses. Rabbinic reception [RASHI3]: Rashi records both an interpretation about mercies not ending and the grammatical reading that we have not perished through God’s kindness. This draft follows the latter without erasing the former from reception history.
Biblical connection — Thematic connection: 2 Corinthians 1:3-4. The hope expressed amid Lamentations' grief can be read alongside Paul's proclamation of God as the source of mercy and consolation in affliction.
Verse 3:23 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:23] They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[—] [No corresponding verse is displayed in the declared Greek running text.]
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek source gap continues. Hebrew's sudden divine address and repeated renewal remain intact.
Verse 3:24 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:24] YHWH is my portion, says my soul; therefore I will hope in Him.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[—] [No corresponding verse is displayed in the declared Greek running text.]
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek source gap continues. The Hebrew portion image is retained without importing a Greek version from memory.
Verse 3:25 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:25] YHWH is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul that seeks Him.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:25] The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul that will seek Him as good
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek ends with an additional good, construed with seeking Him; its relation to the next verse is difficult and remains a review question. Greek hypomenousin takes Him as its direct object: wait for Him [LEX325], not endure on His behalf.
Verse 3:26 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:26] It is good to wait quietly for YHWH's salvation.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:26] and will endure and be quiet for the Lord's salvation.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek continues the prior soul's actions without Hebrew's independent it is good opening. Its additional good occurs at the end of 3:25.
Verse 3:27 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:27] It is good for a man to bear a yoke in his youth.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:27] It is good for a man when he takes up a yoke in his youth.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The yoke's specific social or disciplinary application is not supplied.
Verse 3:28 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:28] Let him sit alone and be silent, for He has laid it upon him.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:28] He will sit alone and be silent, because he has taken it upon himself.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew is provisionally read with an unexpressed divine imposer, while Greek explicitly makes the bearer take it upon himself. Alternate Hebrew agency remains open.
Verse 3:29 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:29] Let him put his mouth in the dust; perhaps there is hope.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[—] [No corresponding verse is displayed in the declared Greek running text.]
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The actual Greek publisher text moves from 3:28 to 3:30. The absence is source-specific, not asserted for every Greek witness.
Verse 3:30 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:30] Let him offer his cheek to the one striking him; let him be filled with reproach.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:30] He will give his cheek to the one striking him; he will be filled with reproaches.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The Hebrew exhortative and Greek future forms are distinguished. The sentence is not extended into advice that a present victim must remain in danger.
Verse 3:31 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:31] For the Lord will not reject forever.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:31] For the Lord will not reject forever.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The object of rejection is left unexpressed in both.
Verse 3:32 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:32] Though He causes grief, He will have compassion according to His abundant steadfast love.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:32] For the One who humbled will have compassion according to His abundant mercy.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek identifies the compassionate agent by His prior humbling action; Hebrew presents the relation concessively.
Verse 3:33 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:33] For He does not afflict from His heart or grieve human beings.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:33] For He did not answer from His heart, and He humbled human beings.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek answered differs from Hebrew afflicted. The relation of the Greek negative to the following clause is difficult; the displayed wording is not replaced with the familiar Hebrew-based maxim.
Verse 3:34 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:34] To crush under one's feet all the prisoners of the earth,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:34] To humble under one's feet all the prisoners of the earth,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The unexpressed agent's feet are not automatically assigned to God; the infinitive sequence continues through 3:36.
Verse 3:35 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:35] to turn aside a man's justice before the face of the Most High,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:35] to turn aside a man's judgment before the face of the Most High,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The Most High title and judicial setting agree.
Verse 3:36 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:36] to wrong a person in his lawsuit—the Lord does not look on with approval.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:36] to condemn a person when he is judged—the Lord did not say to do this.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: With approval is supplied in Hebrew to express the selected sense of not seeing; an interrogative does not the Lord see is another reading. Greek says did not say, with to do this supplied to connect the preceding infinitives.
Verse 3:37 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:37] Who spoke and it came to be, unless the Lord commanded it?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:37] Who spoke in this way and it came to be? The Lord did not command,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew is read as a question with unless supplied; Greek's displayed punctuation leaves a question followed by a negative command clause continued into the next question. The difficult rhetorical relation requires review.
Verse 3:38 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:38] Do not calamities and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:38] do not calamities and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both negatives are read within a rhetorical question. Calamities distinguishes adverse events from an added claim that God commits moral evil.
Verse 3:39 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:39] Why should a living person complain, a man concerning his sins?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:39] Why should a living person grumble, a man concerning his sin?
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Punishment for is not added before sins; the compressed relation is left open.
Verse 3:40 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:40] Let us search and examine our ways, and return to YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:40] Our way was searched and examined; let us return to the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek reports a completed passive examination rather than exhorting the community to examine itself.
Verse 3:41 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:41] Let us lift our heart with our hands to God in heaven.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:41] Let us lift our hearts upon our hands to the Exalted One in heaven.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek Exalted One differs from Hebrew God, and Greek upon hands retains the image more literally.
Verse 3:42 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:42] We have transgressed and rebelled; You have not forgiven.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:42] We have sinned and acted ungodly, and You were not propitiated.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek hilaskomai preserves propitiation language rather than replacing it with Hebrew forgiveness.
Verse 3:43 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:43] You covered Yourself with anger and pursued us; You killed without pity.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:43] You covered Yourself with fury and drove us away; You killed without sparing.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Yourself is supplied from the reflexive context. The lament directly addresses divine action.
Verse 3:44 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:44] You covered Yourself with a cloud so that prayer could not pass through.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:44] You spread a cloud over Yourself because of prayer,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek lacks an explicit could not pass clause; its relation to the following infinitive is retained across the boundary.
Verse 3:45 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:45] You made us refuse and rubbish among the peoples.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:45] to close my eyes; You placed us to be rejected among the peoples.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek has closing my eyes and shifts between singular me and plural us, unlike Hebrew refuse and rubbish. The infinitive relation to 3:44 is difficult and provisionally rendered without reconstructing another source.
Verse 3:46 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:46] All our enemies opened their mouths against us.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:46] All our enemies opened their mouths against us.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The hostile gesture agrees.
Verse 3:47 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:47] Terror and pit have come upon us, devastation and shattering.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:47] Fear and fury have come upon us, exaltation and crushing.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek fury and exaltation differ from Hebrew pit and devastation; the startling exaltation term is not silently changed to destruction.
Verse 3:48 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:48] Streams of water flow from my eye at the shattering of the daughter of my people.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:48] My eye will bring down outpourings of water at the shattering of the daughter of my people.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The communal catastrophe is voiced as personal weeping.
Verse 3:49 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:49] My eye pours out and does not cease, without respite,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:49] My eye was swallowed up, and I will not be silent, for there is no recovery,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek eye swallowed up and first-person silence differ from Hebrew the eye's continuous flowing.
Verse 3:50 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:50] until YHWH looks down and sees from heaven.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:50] until the Lord bends down and sees from heaven.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both await divine seeing.
Verse 3:51 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:51] My eye causes my soul grief because of all the daughters of my city.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:51] My eye will glean my soul beyond all the daughters of a city.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew because of can alternatively be comparative more than; Greek para is provisionally comparative here. Greek gleaning retains a repeated metaphor rather than replacing it with grief.
Verse 3:52 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:52] My enemies hunted me like a bird without cause.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:52] My enemies hunted me like a sparrow without cause.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek names a sparrow; Hebrew has the broader bird term.
Verse 3:53 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:53] They cut off my life in the pit and cast a stone at me.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:53] They put my life to death in a pit and laid a stone upon me.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek laying a stone upon the speaker differs from Hebrew throwing; no additional prison narrative is inserted.
Verse 3:54 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:54] Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:54] Water overflowed my head; I said, I have been rejected.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek rejection differs from Hebrew cutting off.
Verse 3:55 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:55] I called Your name, YHWH, from the deepest pit.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:55] I called upon Your name, Lord, from the lowest pit.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The cry remains a direct divine address.
Verse 3:56 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:56] You heard my voice: Do not hide Your ear from my relief, from my cry for help.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:56] You heard my voice: Do not hide Your ears from my supplication.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek has a single supplication phrase where Hebrew has relief or breathing and a cry for help. Hebrew's first term is provisional.
Verse 3:57 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:57] You drew near on the day I called You; You said, Do not fear.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:57] You drew near to help me on the day I called You; You said to me, Do not fear.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek adds the explicit purpose of help and the recipient of the speech.
Verse 3:58 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:58] You pleaded the cases of my soul, Lord; You redeemed my life.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:58] You judged the cases of my soul, Lord; You redeemed my life.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both use forensic rescue language, with advocacy and adjudication slightly distinguished.
Verse 3:59 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:59] You saw the wrong done to me, YHWH; judge my case.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:59] You saw my troubles, Lord; You judged my case.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek reports judgment already given rather than requesting it, and has troubles instead of the wrong suffered.
Verse 3:60 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:60] You saw all their vengeance, all their schemes against me.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:60] You saw all their vengeance in all their reasonings against me.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek's dependent reasoning phrase differs from Hebrew's repeated object.
Verse 3:61 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:61] You heard their reproach, YHWH, all their schemes against me,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:61] You heard their reproach, all their reasonings against me,
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek does not include the divine name or Lord title here.
Verse 3:62 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:62] the lips of those rising against me and their muttering against me all day.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:62] the lips of those rising against me and their meditations against me all day,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek meditations differs slightly from Hebrew muttering or plotting speech.
Verse 3:63 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:63] Look at their sitting and their rising; I am their mocking song.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:63] their sitting and their rising; look upon their eyes.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek extends what was heard and ends by directing attention to their eyes; Hebrew directs attention to their conduct and makes the speaker their taunt-song.
Verse 3:64 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:64] Repay them, YHWH, according to the work of their hands.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:64] You will repay them a recompense, Lord, according to the works of their hands.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew is rendered as a petition; Greek has a future assertion.
Verse 3:65 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:65] Give them a covering of heart; let Your curse be upon them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:65] You will give them a shielding of heart, Your toil for them.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Both heart-covering expressions are difficult; dullness or obstruction is possible in Hebrew. Greek toil differs from Hebrew curse, and is not corrected to match it.
Verse 3:66 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[3:66] Pursue them in anger and destroy them from beneath YHWH's heavens.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[3:66] You will pursue in anger and consume them from beneath heaven, Lord.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek ends with direct address, Lord, where Hebrew has YHWH's heavens. The petition is retained as lament speech, not a present mandate for violence.