Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you after He has done good to you.”

King James Version

If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.

Holman Bible

If you abandon the Lord and worship foreign gods, He will turn against you, harm you, and completely destroy you, after He has been good to you.”

International Standard Version

If you abandon the LORD and serve foreign deities, then he will turn and do you harm, consuming you after all the good he has done for you."

A Conservative Version

If ye forsake LORD, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.

American Standard Version

If ye forsake Jehovah, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.

Amplified

If you do abandon (reject) the Lord and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume and destroy you after He has done you good.”

Bible in Basic English

If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good.

Darby Translation

If ye forsake Jehovah, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.

Julia Smith Translation

If ye shall forsake Jehovah and serve strange gods, and he turned back and did evil to you, and finished you after that he did good to you.

King James 2000

If you forsake the LORD, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm, and consume you, after that he has done you good.

Lexham Expanded Bible

If you forsake Yahweh and serve foreign gods, he will turn and bring disaster to you; he will destroy you after he has done good to you."

Modern King James verseion

If you forsake Jehovah and serve strange gods, then He will turn and do you harm, and destroy you after He has done you good.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But when ye have forsaken the LORD and have served strange gods, he will turn and do you evil and consume you, after that he hath done you good."

NET Bible

If you abandon the Lord and worship foreign gods, he will turn against you; he will bring disaster on you and destroy you, though he once treated you well."

New Heart English Bible

If you forsake the LORD, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good."

The Emphasized Bible

When ye forsake Yahweh, and serve the gods of a stranger, then will he turn, and inflict on you calamity, and consume you, after that he hath dealt well with you.

Webster

If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.

World English Bible

If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good."

Youngs Literal Translation

When ye forsake Jehovah, and have served gods of a stranger, then He hath turned back and done evil to you, and consumed you, after that He hath done good to you.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
the Lord

Usage: 0

and serve
עבד 
`abad 
Usage: 288

נכר 
Nekar 
Usage: 36

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

then he will turn
שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

and do you hurt
רעע 
Ra`a` 
Usage: 98

אחר 
'achar 
Usage: 488

References

Context Readings

The Israelites Promise To Serve Yahweh

19 Then Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD, for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not allow your rebellions nor your sins. 20 If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you after He has done good to you.” 21 And the people said unto Joshua, No, but we will serve the LORD.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:9

And thou, Solomon, my son, know thou the God of thy father and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing soul, for the LORD searches all hearts and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

Acts 7:42

Then God withdrew and gave them up to worship the host of the heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

2 Chronicles 15:2

and he went out to meet Asa and said unto him, Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The LORD is with you, while ye are with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

Ezra 8:22

For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to defend us against the enemy in the way because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all those that seek him for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those that forsake him.

Isaiah 1:28

And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and those that forsook the LORD shall be consumed.

Isaiah 63:10

But they were rebels and angered his holy Spirit; therefore, he was turned to be their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

Isaiah 65:11-12

But ye that forsake the LORD, that forget the mountain of my holiness, that prepare a table unto fortune, and that furnish the drink offering for destiny;

Jeremiah 17:13

O hope of Israel! LORD, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed; and those that depart from me shall be written in the dust because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

Joshua 23:12-15

Because if ye do in any wise go back and cleave unto the remnant of these Gentiles that remain among you and shall make marriages with them and go in unto them and they to you,

Ezekiel 18:24

But if the righteous should leave his righteousness and commit iniquity, and do according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall not be mentioned; by his rebellion in which he has trespassed and by his sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die.

Hebrews 10:26-27

For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,

Hebrews 10:38

Now the just shall live by faith, but if any man draws back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

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