Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear. Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house.

New American Standard Bible

Listen, O daughter, give attention and incline your ear:
Forget your people and your father’s house;

King James Version

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

Holman Bible

Listen, daughter, pay attention and consider:
forget your people and your father’s house,

International Standard Version

Listen, daughter! Consider and pay attention. Forget your people and your father's house,

American Standard Version

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house:

Amplified


Hear, O daughter, consider and incline your ear [to my instruction]:
Forget your people and your father’s house;

Bible in Basic English

O daughter, give thought and attention, and let your ear be open; no longer keep in mind your people, and your father's house;

Darby Translation

Hearken, daughter, and see, and incline thine ear; and forget thine own people and thy father's house:

Julia Smith Translation

Hear, O daughter, and see, and incline thine ear, and forget thy people and thy father's house;

King James 2000

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; forget also your own people, and your father's house;

Lexham Expanded Bible

Hear, O daughter, and {discern} and incline your ear, and forget your people and your father's house.

Modern King James verseion

Listen, O daughter, and look; and bow down your ear; and forget your own people and your father's house.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Hearken, O daughter, and consider; incline thine ear. Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house.

NET Bible

Listen, O princess! Observe and pay attention! Forget your homeland and your family!

New Heart English Bible

Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father's house.

The Emphasized Bible

Hearken, O daughter, and observe, Incline also thine ear, Forget, then, thine own people, And the house of thy father;

Webster

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thy ear; forget also thy own people, and thy father's house;

World English Bible

Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father's house.

Youngs Literal Translation

Hearken, O daughter, and see, incline thine ear, And forget thy people, and thy father's house,

Context Readings

A Royal Wedding Song

9 Kings' daughters are among thy honorable women. At thy right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir. 10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear. Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house. 11 So will the king desire thy beauty, for he is thy lord, and reverence thou him.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 21:13

and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thy house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. And after that thou shall go in to her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.

Song of Songs 2:10-13

My beloved spoke, and said to me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife, and {the two (LXX/NT)} shall be one flesh.

Genesis 12:1

Now LORD said to Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land that I will show thee.

Deuteronomy 33:9

who said of his father, and of his mother, I have not seen him, neither did he acknowledge his brothers, nor knew he his own sons, for they have observed thy word, and keep thy covenant.

Isaiah 55:1-3

Ho, everyone who thirsts, come ye to the waters. And he who has no money, come ye, buy, and eat. Yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Matthew 10:37

He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me, and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

Matthew 19:29

And every man who has forsaken houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, because of my name, will receive a hundredfold, and will inherit eternal life.

Luke 14:26

If any man comes to me, and does not regard as inferior his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and besides his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

2 Corinthians 5:16

So that henceforth we know no man according to flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we know him no longer.

2 Corinthians 6:17-1

Therefore, Come ye out from among them, and be ye separated, says Lord, And touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you

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