Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

"Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak, and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

New American Standard Bible

Give ear, O heavens, and let me speak;
And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

King James Version

Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

Holman Bible

Pay attention, heavens, and I will speak;
listen, earth, to the words of my mouth.

International Standard Version

Hear, heavens, and I will speak! Listen, earth, to the words of my mouth!

A Conservative Version

Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak, and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

American Standard Version

Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak; And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

Amplified

“Listen, O heavens, and I will speak;
And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

Bible in Basic English

Give ear, O heavens, to my voice; let the earth take note of the words of my mouth:

Darby Translation

Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak; And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth!

Julia Smith Translation

Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak; Thou earth shalt hear the words of my mouth.

King James 2000

Give ear, O you heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

Modern King James verseion

Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Hearken, o ye heavens; I will speak. And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

NET Bible

Listen, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

New Heart English Bible

Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

The Emphasized Bible

Give ear O ye heavens and I will speak, And let the earth hear the sayings of my mouth:

Webster

Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

World English Bible

Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

Youngs Literal Translation

'Give ear, O heavens, and I speak; And thou dost hear, O earth, sayings of my mouth!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אזן 
'azan 
Usage: 42

O ye heavens
שׁמה שׁמים 
Shamayim 
Usage: 420

and I will speak
דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1142

O earth
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

the words
אמר 
'emer 
Usage: 49

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Verse Info

Context Readings

Moses' Song

1 "Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak, and let the earth hear the words of my mouth. 2 May my teaching trickle like the dew, my words like rain showers on tender grass, and like spring showers on new growth.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call to witness against you today the heaven and the earth, that you will perish soon and completely from the land that you [are] crossing the Jordan into it to take possession of it; {you will not live long on it}, but you will be completely destroyed.

Isaiah 1:2

Hear, heavens, and listen, earth, for Yahweh has spoken: "I reared children and I brought [them] up, but they rebelled against me.

Jeremiah 6:19

Hear, O earth, look, I [am] about to bring disaster to this people, the fruit of their plans, because they have not listened attentively to my words, and my teaching, they have rejected it also.

Deuteronomy 30:19

I invoke as a witness against you {today} the heaven and the earth: life and death I have set {before you}, blessing and curse. So choose life, so that you may live, you and your offspring,

Deuteronomy 31:28

Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officials, so that I may speak in their ears these words, and [that] I may call as witness against them heaven and earth.

Psalm 49:1

Hear this, all [you] peoples; give ear, all [you] inhabitants of [the] world,

Psalm 50:4

He summons the heavens above and the earth that he might judge his people:

Jeremiah 2:12

Be appalled, heavens, at this, and shudder; be utterly desolate," {declares} Yahweh.

Jeremiah 22:29

land, land, land, hear the word of Yahweh.

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