Psalm 92 — A Sabbath song of lasting fruitfulness — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 92:11
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.
Psalm 92 — A Sabbath song of lasting fruitfulness
Verse 92:1 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[92:1] A psalm, a song for the Sabbath day.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[91:1] A psalm of a song, for the Sabbath day.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both preserve the separately numbered Sabbath heading; the relation of psalm and song differs slightly.
Verse 92:2 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[92:2] It is good to thank YHWH
and make music to Your name, Most High,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[91:2] It is good to give thanks to the Lord
and make music to Your name, Most High,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Thanksgiving and music agree; the divine-name forms follow the sources.
Verse 92:3 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[92:3] to declare Your steadfast love in the morning
and Your faithfulness through the nights,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[91:3] to declare Your mercy in the morning
and Your truth by night,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The morning-night pairing agrees, with Hebrew plural nights and the conventional steadfast-love/mercy and faithfulness/truth correspondences.
Verse 92:4 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[92:4] on a ten-stringed instrument and on a harp,
with resonant music on a lyre.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[91:4] on a ten-stringed psaltery,
with song on a lyre.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew lists ten-stringed instrument and harp, while Greek specifies a ten-stringed psaltery. Hebrew higgayon is provisionally resonant music, with meditation or a musical designation possible; Greek explicitly has song.
Verse 92:5 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[92:5] For You have gladdened me, YHWH, by Your work;
at the works of Your hands I sing joyfully.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[91:5] For You gladdened me, Lord, by Your making,
and at the works of Your hands I will exult.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The joy in divine work agrees; singing and exultation retain lexical distinctions.
Verse 92:6 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[92:6] How great are Your works, YHWH;
Your thoughts are very deep.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[91:6] How great Your works have become, Lord;
Your reasonings have grown very deep.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Great works and deep divine thoughts agree, with Hebrew stative presentation and Greek completed processes retained.
Verse 92:7 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[92:7] A brutish person does not know,
and a fool does not understand this:
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[91:7] A senseless man will not know,
and one without understanding will not understand these things:
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both identify lack of understanding, with singular this and plural these things and differing verbal presentation.
Verse 92:8 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[92:8] when the wicked sprout like grass
and all evildoers blossom,
it is so that they may be destroyed forever.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[91:8] when sinners spring up like grass
and all who work lawlessness emerge,
it is so that they may be utterly destroyed for the age of the age.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew blossoming becomes Greek emerging or peering out; wicked becomes sinners. The destruction and its duration remain explicit.
Verse 92:9 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[92:9] But You are on high forever, YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[91:9] But You are Most High forever, Lord.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew on high and Greek Most High express abiding exaltation; the divine-name forms differ.
Verse 92:10 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[92:10] For look, Your enemies, YHWH—
for look, Your enemies will perish;
all evildoers will be scattered.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[91:10] For look, Your enemies will perish,
and all who work lawlessness will be scattered.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek has only one enemies clause and omits the Hebrew vocative and repeated introduction. The Hebrew repetition is not reduced for style.
Verse 92:11 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[92:11] You have raised my horn like a wild ox’s;
I am bathed in fresh oil.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[91:11] My horn will be raised like a one-horned creature’s,
and my old age in rich oil.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew first-person oil clause becomes Greek my old age, a nominal continuation with an unexpressed predicate. Hebrew balloti, bathed or mixed, remains provisional, not an unqualified anointing verb. Wild ox and Greek one-horned creature retain different descriptions without claiming the Greek means a modern mythical animal.
Verse 92:12 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[92:12] My eye looks on those watching me;
my ears hear of evildoers rising against me.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[91:12] My eye looked upon my enemies,
and my ear will hear of evildoers rising against me.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew watchers or foes becomes explicit Greek enemies; Hebrew ears is plural and Greek ear singular. Neither column supplies an unprinted victory or downfall as what is seen or heard.
Verse 92:13 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[92:13] The righteous will blossom like a palm tree;
like a cedar in Lebanon he will grow tall.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[91:13] A righteous person will blossom like a palm tree;
like the cedar in Lebanon he will multiply.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both contrast lasting righteous growth with the wicked’s grasslike emergence; growing tall and multiplying retain the source verbs.
Verse 92:14 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[92:14] Planted in YHWH’s house,
they will blossom in the courts of our God.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[91:14] Planted in the Lord’s house,
they will blossom in the courts of our God.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The shared plural planted ones resumes the righteous collectively; the divine-name forms differ.
Verse 92:15 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[92:15] They will still bear fruit in old age;
they will be vigorous and fresh,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[91:15] They will still multiply in a rich old age
and be flourishing,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew fruit-bearing becomes Greek multiplying; Hebrew vigorous and fresh predicates become rich old age and flourishing in Greek. No specific human age is inserted.
Verse 92:16 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[92:16] to declare that YHWH is upright,
my Rock, and there is no injustice in Him.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[91:16] to declare that the Lord my God is upright,
and there is no injustice in Him.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew my Rock becomes Greek my God. Both end by denying injustice in God.