Parallel Verses

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;

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 were among thy honourable women; the queen stands at thy right hand with a crown of gold from Ophir. 10 Listen, O daughter, give attention and incline your ear:
Forget your people and your father’s house;
11 so shall the king greatly desire thy beauty; and bow before him, for he is thy Lord.


Cross References

Deuteronomy 21:13

and she shall put off the clothing of her captivity and shall remain in thine house and bewail her father and her mother a full month, and after that thou shalt go in unto her and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.

Song of Songs 2:10-13

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

Genesis 2:24

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh.

Genesis 12:1

But the LORD had said unto Abram, Depart out of thy country and from thy nature and from thy father's house unto a land that I will show thee;

Deuteronomy 33:9

who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen them; neither did he acknowledge his brethren nor know his own children; therefore, they shall keep thy word and guard thy covenant.

Isaiah 55:1-3

Ho, every one that thirsts, come ye to the waters, and he that has no money; come ye, buy, and eat; come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Matthew 10:37

He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Matthew 19:29

And every one that has forsaken houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my name's sake shall receive a hundredfold and shall inherit eternal life.

Luke 14:26

If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, and even his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

2 Corinthians 5:16

Therefore from now on we know no one according to the flesh: and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no longer.

2 Corinthians 6:17-1

Therefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and do not touch the unclean thing; and I will receive you

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