Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Therefore turn thou to thy God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually.

New American Standard Bible

Therefore, return to your God,
Observe kindness and justice,
And wait for your God continually.

King James Version

Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.

Holman Bible

But you must return to your God.
Maintain love and justice,
and always put your hope in God.

International Standard Version

So you, return to your God; guard grace and justice, and look to your God always.

American Standard Version

Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually.

Amplified


Therefore, return [in repentance] to your God,
Observe and highly regard kindness and justice,
And wait [expectantly] for your God continually.

Bible in Basic English

So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.

Darby Translation

And thou, return unto thy God: keep loving-kindness and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.

Julia Smith Translation

And thou, in thy God thou shalt turn back: watch mercy and judgment, and wait always for thy God.

King James 2000

Therefore turn you to your God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on your God continually.

Lexham Expanded Bible

But you, you must return to your God; keep love and justice, and wait continually for your God.

Modern King James verseion

Therefore turn to your God; keep mercy and judgment, and wait on your God forever.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Then turn to thy God, keep mercy and equity, and hope still in thy God.

NET Bible

But you must return to your God, by maintaining love and justice, and by waiting for your God to return to you.

New Heart English Bible

Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.

The Emphasized Bible

Thou, therefore, by thy God, shalt return, - lovingkindness and justice, do thou keep, so wait thou for thy God, continually.

Webster

Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.

World English Bible

Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.

Youngs Literal Translation

And thou, through thy God, dost turn, Kindness and judgment keep thou, And wait on thy God continually.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

thou to thy God
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

שׁמר 
Shamar 
Usage: 468

and judgment
משׁפּט 
Mishpat 
Usage: 421

and wait
קוה 
Qavah 
Usage: 49

on thy God
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

References

Fausets

Context Readings

God's Case Against Jacob's Heirs

5 But LORD God Almighty shall be his memorial. 6 Therefore turn thou to thy God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually. 7 [He is] a Canaanite. The balances of deceit are in his hand. He loves to oppress.

Cross References

Micah 6:8

He has shown thee, O man, what is good. And what does LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Hosea 14:1

O Israel, return to LORD thy God, for thou have fallen by thine iniquity.

Joel 2:13

And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents of the evil.

Genesis 49:18

I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

Psalm 27:14

Wait for LORD. Be strong, and let thy heart take courage. Yea, wait thou for LORD.

Psalm 37:7

Rest in LORD, and wait patiently for him. Fret not thyself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.

Psalm 123:2

Behold, as the eyes of servants to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes [are] to LORD our God, until he has mercy upon us.

Psalm 130:5-7

I wait for LORD. My soul waits, and in his word do I hope,

Proverbs 1:23

Turn back at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you. I will make my words known to you.

Proverbs 21:3

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to LORD than sacrifice.

Isaiah 1:16

Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

Isaiah 8:17

And I will wait for LORD, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will {be a man who has trusted (LXX/NT)} in him.

Isaiah 30:18

And therefore LORD will wait, that he may be gracious to you. And therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you. For LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

Isaiah 31:6

Turn ye to him from whom ye have deeply revolted, O sons of Israel.

Isaiah 40:31

But those who wait for LORD shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run, and not be weary. They shall walk, and not faint.

Isaiah 55:6-7

Seek ye LORD while he may be found. Call ye upon him while he is near.

Isaiah 58:6

Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Jeremiah 22:15

Shall thou reign, because thou strive to excel in cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

Lamentations 3:25-26

LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

Lamentations 3:39-41

Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of LORD, ye sons of Israel, for LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea 6:1-3

Come, and let us return to LORD, for he has torn, and he will heal us. He has smitten, and he will bind us up.

Hosea 10:12

Sow to yourselves in righteousness. Reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek LORD, till he comes and rains righteousness upon you.

Amos 5:24

But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

Micah 7:7

But as for me, I will look to LORD. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

Habakkuk 2:3

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hastens toward the end, and shall not lay. Though it tarry, wait for it, because it will surely come. It will not delay.

Zephaniah 3:8

Therefore wait ye for me, says LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey. For my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them my indignation, even all my fierce anger. For all the

Zechariah 1:3

Therefore say thou to them, Thus says LORD of hosts: Return to me, says LORD of hosts, and I will return to you, says LORD of hosts.

Zechariah 7:9

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

Zechariah 8:16

These are the things that ye shall do: Speak ye every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates.

Acts 2:38

And Peter said to them, Repent ye, and be immersed each of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 26:20

but declaring first to those at Damascus and then at Jerusalem, and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, to repent and return to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled from God and the Father is this, to go help the orphaned and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

James 2:13

For the judgment is merciless to him who did no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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