Psalm 50 — Hebrew and Greek compared
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Psalm 50
The sacrifice of thanksgiving
Verse 50:1 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[50:1] A psalm of Asaph.
The Mighty One, God, YHWH, speaks and summons the earth
from the sun's rising to its setting.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[49:1] A psalm of Asaph.
The God of gods, the Lord, spoke and summoned the earth
from the sun's risings to its settings.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew's sequence of divine names becomes Greek God of gods, the Lord.
Verse 50:2 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[50:2] From Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God shines forth.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[49:2] From Zion comes the splendor of His beauty;
God will come manifestly,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew calls Zion beauty's perfection and depicts shining; Greek speaks of His beauty and manifest coming.
Verse 50:3 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[50:3] May our God come and not keep silent;
fire devours before Him,
and around Him a storm rages fiercely.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[49:3] our God, and He will not keep silent;
fire will burn before Him,
and around Him is a mighty tempest.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek's coming clause begins in the preceding verse; both retain fiery divine arrival and storm.
Verse 50:4 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[50:4] He summons the heavens above
and the earth, to judge His people.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[49:4] He will summon heaven above
and the earth, to judge His people.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The cosmic summons to judgment agrees.
Verse 50:5 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[50:5] “Gather My faithful ones to Me,
those who cut My covenant over sacrifice.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[49:5] Gather His holy ones to Him,
those who establish His covenant over sacrifices.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew speaks in God's first person; Greek speaks about Him in the third person.
Verse 50:6 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[50:6] The heavens declare His righteousness,
for God Himself is judge. Selah.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[49:6] The heavens will announce His righteousness,
for God is judge. Diapsalma.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The heavens' testimony to divine judgment agrees.
Verse 50:7 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[50:7] “Hear, My people, and I will speak;
Israel, I will testify against you.
I am God, your God.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[49:7] “Hear, My people, and I will speak to you;
Israel, I testify to you.
I am God, your God.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both directly address the covenant people; Greek explicitly adds to you in the first line.
Verse 50:8 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[50:8] I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices;
your burnt offerings are always before Me.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[49:8] I will not rebuke you concerning your sacrifices;
your burnt offerings are continually before Me.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The rebuke is not about lack of sacrifices.
Verse 50:9 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[50:9] I will not take a bull from your house
or male goats from your pens.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[49:9] I will not receive calves from your house
or young goats from your flocks.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: The animal ages and singular/plural bull or calves differ.
Verse 50:10 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[50:10] For every forest creature is Mine,
the beasts on a thousand hills.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[49:10] For all the forest's wild animals are Mine,
beasts on the mountains and cattle.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew retains a thousand hills; Greek has mountains and cattle, without a number.
Verse 50:11 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[50:11] I know every bird of the mountains,
and the moving life of the field is with Me.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[49:11] I know all the birds of heaven,
and the field's beauty is with Me.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew names mountain birds and moving field life; Greek heaven's birds and the field's beauty.
Verse 50:12 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[50:12] If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for the world and its fullness are Mine.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[49:12] If I become hungry, I will certainly not tell you,
for the inhabited world and its fullness are Mine.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both deny that God depends on people for food.
Verse 50:13 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[50:13] Do I eat the flesh of mighty bulls
or drink the blood of male goats?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[49:13] Will I eat bulls' flesh
or drink goats' blood?
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both use questions to reject the feeding of God as sacrifice's purpose.
Verse 50:14 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[50:14] Sacrifice thanksgiving to God
and fulfill your vows to the Most High.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[49:14] Sacrifice a sacrifice of praise to God
and pay your vows to the Most High.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Thanksgiving and praise describe the fitting offering.
Verse 50:15 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[50:15] Call on Me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[49:15] Call on Me in the day of affliction;
I will rescue you, and you will glorify Me.” Diapsalma.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The promised rescue agrees; only Greek has a performance marker here.
Verse 50:16 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[50:16] But to the wicked God says,
“What right have you to recount My statutes
and take My covenant upon your mouth?
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[49:16] But to the sinner God said,
“Why do you recount My decrees
and take up My covenant through your mouth?
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both challenge the offender's claim to speak God's covenant.
Verse 50:17 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[50:17] You hate discipline
and cast My words behind you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[49:17] But you hated instruction
and cast My words behind you.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The rejection of divine instruction agrees.
Verse 50:18 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[50:18] If you see a thief, you run with him;
your portion is with adulterers.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[49:18] If you saw a thief, you ran along with him,
and you placed your portion with adulterers.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both expose complicity in theft and adultery.
Verse 50:19 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[50:19] You release your mouth into evil,
and your tongue binds deceit together.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[49:19] Your mouth multiplied wickedness,
and your tongue wove deception.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew releases speech into evil; Greek multiplies evil speech.
Verse 50:20 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[50:20] You sit and speak against your brother;
you put a slur upon your mother's son.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[49:20] Sitting, you spoke against your brother,
and against your mother's son you placed a stumbling block.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew specifies slander; Greek a stumbling block.
Verse 50:21 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[50:21] These things you did, and I kept silent;
you imagined I would be just like you.
I will rebuke you and lay it out before your eyes.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[49:21] These things you did, and I kept silent;
you conceived the lawless thought that I would be like you.
I will rebuke you and set it before your face.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek explicitly calls the false inference lawless; both deny that silence means divine likeness to the offender.
Verse 50:22 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[50:22] Understand this, you who forget God,
lest I tear you apart with no deliverer.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[49:22] Understand these things, you who forget God,
lest He seize you and there be no rescuer.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew continues God's first-person warning; Greek shifts to He.
Verse 50:23 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[50:23] One who sacrifices thanksgiving honors Me;
to one who orders the way I will show God's salvation.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[49:23] A sacrifice of praise will glorify Me,
and there is a way by which I will show him God's salvation.”
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew names a person ordering a way; Greek identifies a way of divine revelation without that explicit human action.