Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Make a request to the Lord your God for a sign, a sign in the deep places of the underworld, or in the high heavens.

New American Standard Bible

“Ask a sign for yourself from the Lord your God; make it deep as Sheol or high as heaven.”

King James Version

Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

Holman Bible

“Ask for a sign from the Lord your God—from the depths of Sheol to the heights of heaven.”

International Standard Version

"Ask a sign from the LORD your God. Make it as deep as Sheol or as high as heaven above."

A Conservative Version

Ask thee a sign of LORD thy God, ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

American Standard Version

Ask thee a sign of Jehovah thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

Amplified

“Ask a sign for yourself from the Lord your God [one that will convince you that God has spoken and will keep His word]; make your request as deep as Sheol or as high as heaven.”

Darby Translation

Ask for thee a sign from Jehovah thy God; ask for it in the deep, or in the height above.

Julia Smith Translation

Ask for thee a sign from Jehovah thy God; make deep the asking, or make high upwards.

King James 2000

Ask a sign of the LORD your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"Ask for a sign for yourself from Yahweh God; make [it] deep [as] Sheol or make [it] high as above."

Modern King James verseion

Ask a sign of Jehovah your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God, from alow beneath, or from on high above."

NET Bible

"Ask for a confirming sign from the Lord your God. You can even ask for something miraculous."

New Heart English Bible

"Ask a sign of the LORD your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above."

The Emphasized Bible

Ask thee a sign, of Yahweh thy God, - Go down deep for a request, Or ascend on high!

Webster

Ask thee a sign from the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the hight above.

World English Bible

"Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above."

Youngs Literal Translation

Ask for thee a sign from Jehovah thy God, Make deep the request, or make it high upwards.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Ask
שׁאל שׁאל 
Sha'al 
Usage: 172

אות 
'owth 
Usage: 79

of the Lord

Usage: 0

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

ask
שׁאל שׁאל 
Sha'al 
Usage: 172

it either in the depth
עמק 
`amaq 
Usage: 9

or in the height
גּבהּ 
Gabahh 
Usage: 34

Context Readings

The Immanuel Prophecy

10 And Isaiah said again to Ahaz, 11 Make a request to the Lord your God for a sign, a sign in the deep places of the underworld, or in the high heavens. 12 But Ahaz said, I will not put the Lord to the test by making such a request.

Cross References

Isaiah 37:30

And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself, and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed, and get in the grain, and make vine-gardens, and take of their fruit.

Isaiah 38:7-8

And Isaiah said, This is the sign the Lord will give you, that he will do what he has said:

Judges 6:36-40

Then Gideon said to God, If you are going to give Israel salvation by my hand, as you have said,

2 Kings 19:29

And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself; and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed and get in the grain and make vine-gardens and take of their fruit.

2 Kings 20:8-11

And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What is to be the sign that the Lord will make me well, and that I will go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?

Isaiah 38:22

And Hezekiah said, What is the sign that I will go up to the house of the Lord?

Jeremiah 19:1

This is what the Lord has said: Go and get for money a potter's bottle made of earth, and take with you some of the responsible men of the people and of the priests;

Jeremiah 19:10

Then let the potter's bottle be broken before the eyes of the men who have gone with you,

Jeremiah 51:63-64

And it will be that, when you have come to an end of reading this book, you are to have a stone fixed to it, and have it dropped into the Euphrates:

Matthew 12:38-40

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees, hearing this, said to him, Master, we are looking for a sign from you.

Matthew 16:1-4

And the Pharisees and Sadducees came and, testing him, made a request to him to give them a sign from heaven.

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