Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Thus said Jehovah of armies, saying. Judge ye the judgment of truth, and do mercy and compassions each to his brother.

New American Standard Bible

“Thus has the Lord of hosts said, ‘Dispense true justice and practice kindness and compassion each to his brother;

King James Version

Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:

Holman Bible

“The Lord of Hosts says this: Make fair decisions. Show faithful love and compassion to one another.

International Standard Version

"This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "Administer true justice, and show gracious love and mercy toward each other.

A Conservative Version

Thus LORD of hosts has spoken, saying, Execute TRUE justice, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

American Standard Version

Thus hath Jehovah of hosts spoken, saying, Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother;

Amplified

“Thus has the Lord of hosts said, ‘Dispense true justice and practice kindness and compassion, to each other;

Bible in Basic English

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging be upright and done in good faith, let every man have mercy and pity for his brother:

Darby Translation

Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew loving-kindness and mercies one to another,

King James 2000

Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother:

Lexham Expanded Bible

"Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Judge [with] trustworthy justice, and show steadfast love and compassion {to one another}.

Modern King James verseion

So speaks Jehovah of Hosts, saying, Judge true judgment, and practice kindness and pity, each man to his brother.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, 'Execute true judgment, and show mercy and loving-kindness, every man to his brother.

NET Bible

"The Lord who rules over all said, 'Exercise true judgment and show brotherhood and compassion to each other.

New Heart English Bible

"Thus has the LORD of hosts spoken, saying, 'Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

The Emphasized Bible

Thus, spake Yahweh of hosts, saying, - With true justice, give ye judgment, and, lovingkindness and compassions, observe ye, one with another;

Webster

Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassions every man to his brother:

World English Bible

"Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, 'Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

Youngs Literal Translation

'Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: True judgment judge ye, And kindness and mercy do one with another.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
the Lord

Usage: 0

of hosts
צבאה צבא 
Tsaba' 
Usage: 483

שׁפט 
Shaphat 
Usage: 203

רחם 
Racham 
Usage: 44

אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Disobedience And Fasting

8 And the word of Jehovah will be to Zechariah, saying, 9 Thus said Jehovah of armies, saying. Judge ye the judgment of truth, and do mercy and compassions each to his brother. 10 And the widow and the orphan, the stranger and the poor, ye shall not oppress; and ye shall not purpose evil in your heart a man to his brother.



Cross References

Micah 6:8

He announced to thee, O man, what was good; and what did Jehovah require of thee but to do judgment and to love mercy, and being humbled, to go with thy God?

Jeremiah 21:12

O house of David, thus said Jehovah, Judge judgment for the morning, and deliver him taken by force from the hand of him oppressing, lest my wrath shall go forth as fire, and burn, and none quenching from the face of the evil of your doings.

Ezekiel 45:9

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Enough to you, O princes of Israel: remove ye violence and oppression, and do judgment and justice, lift up your expulsions from off my people, says the Lord Jehovah.

Matthew 23:23

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye exact tenths and dill and cummin, and ye have left the weightier things of the law, judgment, and mercy, and faith: these it was necessary to do, and not to let go those.

Leviticus 19:15

Ye shall not do evil in judgment; thou shalt not take up the face of the poor; thou shalt not reverence the face of the great: in justice shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

Leviticus 19:35-37

Ye shall not do evil in judgment, in tribute, in weight, and in measure.

Deuteronomy 10:18-19

He did the judgment of the orphan and the widow, and he loved the stranger to give to him bread and a garment

Deuteronomy 15:7-14

When the needy shall be among thee, from one of thy brethren, in one of thy gates in thy land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, and thou shalt not shut thy hand from thy needy brother.

Deuteronomy 16:18-20

Judges and scribes shall thou give to thee in all thy gates which Jehovah thy God gave to thee according to thy tribes: and they judged the people just judgment

Psalm 82:2-4

How long will ye judge wickedness, and ye will lift up the faces of the unjust? Silence.

Proverbs 21:3

To do justice and judgment was chosen by Jehovah above gold.

Isaiah 58:6-10

Is not this the fast I shall choose? to loose the bands of injustice, to shake off the bundles of the yoke, and to send away the broken free, and ye shall break every yoke?

Jeremiah 7:5

For if making good, ye shall make good your ways and your doings; if doing, ye shall do judgment between man and between his neighbor;

Jeremiah 7:23

But this word I commanded them, saying, Hear to my voice, and I was to you for God, and in shall be to me for a people: and go in all the ways which I shall command you, so that it shall be well to you.

Hosea 10:12-13

Sow to yourselves for justice, reap ye for the mouth of kindness; break up to you the fallow ground: and the time to seek Jehovah till he shall come and cast justice upon you.

Amos 5:24

Judgment shall roll as the waters, and justice as a torrent of strength.

Zechariah 7:7

Is it not the words which Jehovah called by the hand of the former prophets in Jerusalem being inhabited and in security, and its cities round about her, and inhabiting the south and the low country?

Zechariah 8:16-17

These the words which ye shall do: speak the truth each with his neighbor; truth and the judgment of peace judge ye in your gates.

Luke 11:42

But woe to you, Pharisees! for ye tithe spearmint and rue and every plant, and ye pass by the judgment and love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to have left those.

John 7:51

Our law judges not a man, except it first hear from him, and know what he does.

James 2:13-17

For unpropitiated judgment to him not doing mercy; and mercy boasteth against judgment.

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