Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

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

A Conservative Version

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

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.

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 And, Yahweh, is God of host, - Yahweh, is his memorial. 6 Thou, therefore, by thy God, shalt return, - lovingkindness and justice, do thou keep, so wait thou for thy God, continually. 7 A trafficker! in his hand, are balances of deceit, to oppress, he loveth.

Cross References

Micah 6:8

He hath told thee, O son of earth, what is good, - what then is, Yahweh, seeking of thee, but, to do justice, to delight in lovingkindness, and humbly to walk with thy God?

Hosea 14:1

Return thou, O Israel, unto Yahweh thy God, - for thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity.

Joel 2:13

And rend your heart, and not your garments, turn therefore, unto Yahweh your God, - for, gracious and full of compassion, is he, slow to anger, and abundant in loving- kindness, and will grieve over calamity.

Genesis 49:18

For thy salvation, have I waited O Yahweh!

Psalm 27:14

Wait thou for Yahweh, - Be strong, and let thy heart be bold, Wait, then, for Yahweh!

Psalm 37:7

Be resigned to Yahweh, yea wait with longing for him; Burn not with vexation at him who prospereth in his way, - at the man who doeth wickedness.

Psalm 130:5-7

I have waited for Yahweh, My soul hath waited for his word;

Proverbs 1:23

Will ye turn, at my reproof? Lo! I will pour out to you my spirit, I will make known my words to you.

Proverbs 21:3

To do righteousness and justice, is more choice to Yahweh than sacrifice.

Isaiah 1:16

Wash you make you clean, Put away the wickedness of your doings from before mine eyes, - Cease to do evil.

Isaiah 8:17

I will therefore long for Yahweh, Who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, - And will wait, for him.

Isaiah 30:18

And, therefore, will Yahweh wait, That he may grant you favour, And, therefore, will he lift himself up, That he may show you compassion, - For A God of justice, is, Yahweh, How happy all they who are waiting for him

Isaiah 31:6

Return ye unto him against whom the sons of Israel have deeply revolted,

Isaiah 40:31

But, they who wait for Yahweh, shall renew their strength, They shall mount on strong pinion like eagles, - They shall run and not grew weary, They shall walk and not faint.

Isaiah 55:6-7

Seek Yahweh while he may be found, - Call ye upon him while he is near:

Isaiah 58:6

Is not, this, the fast that I must ever choose - To unbind the tight cords of lawlessness, To unloose the bands of the yoke, - and To let the crushed go free, and That every yoke, ye tear off?

Jeremiah 3:14-22

Return, ye apostate sons, Urgeth Yahweh, for, I, am become your husband, - therefore will I take you one of a city, and two of a family, and will bring you to Zion;

Jeremiah 22:15

Shalt thou reign, because, thou, art eager to excel in cedar? Thy father, did lie not eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness, And, then, it was well with him?

Lamentations 3:25-26

Good is Yahweh, to them who wait for him, to the soul that will seek him;

Lamentations 3:39-41

Why should a living son of earth complain, Let a man complain because of his sins?

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of Yahweh, ye sons of Israel, - that, a controversy, hath Yahweh with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no faithfulness, nor lovingkindness, nor knowledge of God, in the land:

Hosea 6:1-3

Come, and let us return unto Yahweh! for, he, hath torn, that he might heal us, - smitten, that he might bind us up.

Hosea 10:12

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap ye at thc bidding of lovingkindness, furrow to yourselves the newly-ploughed soil, - then will be the time to seek Yahweh, until he come, that he may rain down righteousness for you.

Amos 5:24

But let, justice, roll along like water, - and, righteousness, as a torrent over flowing.

Micah 7:7

But, I, for Yahweh, will watch, I will wait for the God of my salvation, - My God, will hear me.

Habakkuk 2:3

For yet is the vision for an appointed time, still, it presseth towards an end, and will not deceive, - if it tarry, wait thou for it, for it, surely cometh, - will not be too late.

Zephaniah 3:8

Wherefore, wait for me, urgeth Yahweh, until the day when I rise up as witness, for, my decision, is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out on them mine indignation, all the glow of mine anger, for, in the fire of my jealousy, shall be devoured the whole earth.

Zechariah 1:3

therefore shalt thou say unto them, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Return ye unto me, urgeth Yahweh of hosts, - that I may return unto you, saith Yahweh of hosts.

Zechariah 7:9

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

Zechariah 8:16

These, are the things which ye shall do: Speak ye the truth, every man with his neighbour, truth and the sentence of peace, pronounce ye in your gates;

Acts 2:38

And Peter said unto them - Repent ye, and let each one of you be immersed, in the name of Jesus Christ, into the remission of your sins, - and ye shall receive the free-gift of the Holy Spirit;

Acts 26:20

But - both to them in Damascus, first, and in Jerusalem, unto all the country of Judaea also, and unto the nations, I carried tidings - that they should repent, and turn unto God, and, works worthy of their repentance, should practise.

James 1:27

Religious observance, pure and undefiled with our God and Father, is, this - to be visiting orphans and widows in their affliction, unspotted, to keep, himself, from the world.

James 2:13

For, the judgment, will be without mercy, unto him that hath shewed no mercy: Mercy, boasteth, over judgment.

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