Parallel Verses

Amplified


Hear, O daughter, consider and incline your ear [to my instruction]:
Forget your people and your 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,

A Conservative Version

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear. Forget also thine own people, and thy 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:

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 Your noble ladies;
At Your right hand stands the queen in gold from Ophir.
10 
Hear, O daughter, consider and incline your ear [to my instruction]:
Forget your people and your father’s house;
11
Then the King will desire your beauty;
Because He is your Lord, bow down and honor Him.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 21:13

She shall take off the clothes of her captivity and remain in your house, and weep (mourn) for her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.

Song of Songs 2:10-13


“My beloved speaks and says to me,
‘Arise, my love, my fair one,
And come away.

Genesis 2:24

For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

Genesis 12:1

Now [in Haran] the Lord had said to Abram,

“Go away from your country,
And from your relatives
And from your father’s house,
To the land which I will show you;

Deuteronomy 33:9


Who said of his father and mother,
‘I did not consider them’;
Nor did he acknowledge his brothers,
Nor did he regard his own sons,
For the priests observed Your word,
And kept Your covenant.

Isaiah 55:1-3

“Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters;
And you who have no money come, buy grain and eat.
Come, buy wine and milk
Without money and without cost [simply accept it as a gift from God].

Matthew 10:37

He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

Matthew 19:29

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name’s sake will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life.

Luke 14:26

“If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life [in the sense of indifference to or relative disregard for them in comparison with his attitude toward God]—he cannot be My disciple.

2 Corinthians 5:16

So from now on we regard no one from a human point of view [according to worldly standards and values]. Though we have known Christ from a human point of view, now we no longer know Him in this way.

2 Corinthians 6:17-1


“So come out from among unbelievers and be separate,” says the Lord,
And do not touch what is unclean;
And I will graciously receive you and welcome you [with favor],

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