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 are among your noble ladies. At Your right hand stands the queen in gold from Ophir. 10 Listen, O daughter, give attention and incline your ear:
Forget your people and your father’s house;
11 Then the King will desire your beauty. Bow down to him because he is your Lord.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 21:13

She should no longer wear the clothes she was wearing when you captured her. She may live in your house and mourn the loss of her father and mother for one month. After that you may marry her.

Song of Songs 2:10-13

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

Genesis 2:24

This is the reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife. They will become one flesh.

Genesis 12:1

Jehovah said to Abram: Leave your country, your people, and your father's household, and go to the land I will show you.

Deuteronomy 33:9

Who said of his father and mother: 'I have not seen them; and he did not acknowledge his brothers, nor did he regard his own sons. They observed your word and kept your covenant.'

Isaiah 55:1-3

Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the water. You, who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.

Matthew 10:37

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. He who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Matthew 19:29

Everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will receive many times as much, and have everlasting life.

Luke 14:26

You who come to me may not be my disciple unless you love me more than you love your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters and yourself.

2 Corinthians 5:16

From now on we know no man according to the flesh: even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no longer.

2 Corinthians 6:17-1

Therefore come out from among them and be separate (set off) (severed from them) (excluded from them), said Jehovah. Do not touch the unclean thing and I will receive you. (Isaiah 52:11) (Jeremiah 51:45)

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