Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

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

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.

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 And Jehovah God of armies, Jehovah his remembrance. 6 And thou, in thy God thou shalt turn back: watch mercy and judgment, and wait always for thy God. 7 Canaan in his hand, the balances of deceit: he loved to oppress.

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?

Hosea 14:1

Turn back, O Israel, even to Jehovah thy God, for thou wert weak in thine iniquity.

Joel 2:13

And rend your heart and not your garments, and turn back to Jehovah your God: for he is merciful and compassionate, slow of anger and of much kindness, and lamenting on account of the evil.

Genesis 49:18

I waited for thy deliverance, Jehovah.

Psalm 27:14

Wait for Jehovah: be strong, and thy heart shall be strengthened: and wait for Jehovah.

Psalm 37:7

Be silent to Jehovah and wait for him: thou shalt not be angry at him prospering his way, at the man doing wickednesses.

Psalm 123:2

Behold, as the eyes of servants to the hand of their lords, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are to Jehovah our God, even till he compassionate us.

Psalm 130:5-7

I waited for Jehovah, my soul waited, and I hoped for his word

Proverbs 1:23

Ye shall turn back at my reproofs: behold, I will pour forth my spirit to you, I will make known my words to you.

Proverbs 21:3

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

Isaiah 1:16

Wash ye, cleanse yourselves: turn away evil from your doings from before mine eyes; leave off the evil;

Isaiah 8:17

And I waited for Jehovah in his hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I trusted to him.

Isaiah 30:18

And for this Jehovah will wait to compassionate you, and for this he will be lifted up to pity you, for Jehovah is a God of judgment: happy all they waiting for him.

Isaiah 31:6

Turn ye back to him against whom the sons of Israel made a deep turning away.

Isaiah 40:31

And they waiting for Jehovah shall change power; they shall go up on the wing as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall go and not faint.

Isaiah 55:6-7

Seek ye Jehovah in his being found, and call him in his being near.

Isaiah 58:6

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 3:14-22

Turn back, ye sons having turned away, says Jehovah; for I was lord over you: and I took you one from a city and two from a family, and I brought you to Zion.

Jeremiah 22:15

Shalt thou reign, for thou art kindled with cedar? did not thy father eat and drink and do judgment and justice, then it was well to him?

Lamentations 3:25-26

Good Jehovah to those waiting for him, to the soul that will seek him.

Lamentations 3:39-41

Why shall a living man murmur? a man for his sin?

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of Jehovah, ye sons of Israel: for a contention to Jehovah with the inhabitants of the land, for no truth and no kindness and no knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea 6:1-3

Go ye and we will turn back to Jehovah: for he rent and he will heal us; he will strike, and he will bind us up.

Hosea 10:12

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.

Micah 7:7

I will look about for Jehovah, I will wait for God my deliverer; my God will hear me.

Habakkuk 2:3

For yet the vision for the appointment, and it shall breathe to the end, and it shall not lie: if it shall delay, wait for it; for coming, it will come; and it shall not delay.

Zephaniah 3:8

For this, wait for me, says Jehovah, to the day of my rising up for a testimony: for my judgment is to assemble the nations for my gathering the kingdoms to pour upon them my wrath, all the burning of mine anger: for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be devoured.

Zechariah 1:3

And thou saidst to them, Thus said Jehovah of armies: Turn back to me, says Jehovah of armies, and I will turn back to you, said Jehovah of armies.

Zechariah 7:9

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

Zechariah 8:16

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.

Acts 2:38

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

Acts 26:20

But to them in Damascus first, and Jerusalem, and all the country of Judea, and to the nations, announcing to change the mind, and to turn back to God, doing works worthy of change of mind.

James 1:27

Religion pure and unpolluted before God and the Father is this, To take a view of the orphans and widows in their pressure, to keep himself free from stain from the world.

James 2:13

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

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