Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

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

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.

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 against thee: I am God, even thy God. 8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

Cross References

Exodus 20:2

I am the LORD thy God, which have 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 unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;

Exodus 19:5-6

Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

Deuteronomy 26:17-18

Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:

Deuteronomy 31:19-21

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

1 Samuel 12:22-25

For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.

2 Kings 17:13

Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, 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 to you by my servants the prophets.

2 Chronicles 28:5

Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.

Nehemiah 9:29-30

And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

Psalm 49:1

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.} Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:

Psalm 81:10-12

I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee 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, saith the 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 the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:

Jeremiah 2:9

Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.

Ezekiel 20:5

And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God;

Ezekiel 20:7

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

Ezekiel 20:19-20

I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;

Micah 6:1-8

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

Zechariah 13:9

And I will bring the third part through 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, The LORD is my God.

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 false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

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