Parallel Verses

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;

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:

Amplified


Hear, O daughter, consider and incline your ear [to my instruction]:
Forget 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 women: on your right is the queen in gold of Ophir. 10 O daughter, give thought and attention, and let your ear be open; no longer keep in mind your people, and your father's house; 11 So will the king have a great desire for you, seeing how beautiful you are; because he is your lord, give him honour.


Cross References

Deuteronomy 21:13

And let her take off the dress in which she was made prisoner and go on living in your house and weeping for her father and mother for a full month: and after that you may go in to her and be her husband and she will be your wife.

Song of Songs 2:10-13

My loved one said to me, Get up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

Genesis 2:24

For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

Genesis 12:1

Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:

Deuteronomy 33:9

Who said of his father, Who is he? and of his mother, I have not seen her; he kept himself separate from his brothers and had no knowledge of his children: for they have given ear to your word and kept your agreement.

Isaiah 55:1-3

Ho! everyone in need, come to the waters, and he who has no strength, let him get food: come, get bread without money; wine and milk without price.

Matthew 10:37

He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.

Matthew 19:29

And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will be given a hundred times as much, and have eternal life.

Luke 14:26

And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.

2 Corinthians 5:16

For this reason, from this time forward we have knowledge of no man after the flesh: even if we have had knowledge of Christ after the flesh, we have no longer any such knowledge.

2 Corinthians 6:17-1

For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,

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