Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify to thee, I am God, [even] thy God.

New American Standard Bible

Hear, O My people, and I will speak;
O Israel, I will testify against you;
I am God, your God.

King James Version

Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.

Holman Bible

“Listen, My people, and I will speak;
I will testify against you, Israel.
I am God, your God.

International Standard Version

"Listen, my people, for I am making a pronouncement: Israel, I, God, your God, am testifying against you.

American Standard Version

Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, even thy God.

Amplified


“Hear, O My people, and I will speak;
O Israel, I will testify against you:
I am God, your God.

Darby Translation

Hear, my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, thy God.

Julia Smith Translation

Hear ye, my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God thy God.

King James 2000

Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, even your God.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

Modern King James verseion

Hear, My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you; I am God, your God.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"Hear, O my people, and I will speak; I myself will testify against thee, O Israel; for I am God, even thy God.

NET Bible

He says: "Listen my people! I am speaking! Listen Israel! I am accusing you! I am God, your God!

New Heart English Bible

"Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

The Emphasized Bible

Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will adjure thee, God, thine own God, I am: -

Webster

Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.

World English Bible

"Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

Youngs Literal Translation

Hear, O My people, and I speak, O Israel, and I testify against thee, God, thy God am I.

Context Readings

God As Judge

6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God is judge himself. Selah. 7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify to thee, I am God, [even] thy God. 8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, and thy burnt-offerings [being] continually before me.

Cross References

Exodus 20:2

I am LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Psalm 81:8

Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee, O Israel, if thou would hearken to me!

Exodus 19:5-6

Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be my own possession from among all peoples, for all the earth is mine,

Deuteronomy 26:17-18

Thou have avouched LORD this day to be thy God, and that thou would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and hearken to his voice.

Deuteronomy 31:19-21

Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach thou it the sons of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the sons of Israel.

1 Samuel 12:22-25

For LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased LORD to make you a people to himself.

2 Kings 17:13

Yet LORD testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent

2 Chronicles 28:5

Therefore LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria. And they smote him, and carried away of his a great multitude of captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king o

Nehemiah 9:29-30

and testified against them, that thou might bring them again to thy law. Yet they dealt proudly, and did not hearken to thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), and withdre

Psalm 49:1

Hear this, all ye peoples. Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world,

Psalm 81:10-12

I am LORD thy God who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

Isaiah 1:18

Come now, and let us reason together, says LORD, though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Jeremiah 2:4-5

Hear ye the word of LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.

Jeremiah 2:9

Therefore I will yet contend with you, says LORD, and I will contend with your son's sons.

Ezekiel 20:5

and say to them, Thus says lord LORD: In the day when I chose Israel, and swore to the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, I am LORD your God,

Ezekiel 20:7

And I said to them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am LORD your God.

Ezekiel 20:19-20

I am LORD your God. Walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them,

Micah 6:1-8

Hear ye now what LORD says: Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, It is my people, and they shall say, LORD i

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the FALSE swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the f

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