Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Hear, my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!
New American Standard Bible
O Israel, if you
King James Version
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
Holman Bible
Israel, if you would only listen to Me!
International Standard Version
Listen, My people and I will warn you. Israel, if only you would obey me!
A Conservative Version
Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee, O Israel, if thou would hearken to me!
American Standard Version
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!
Amplified
“Hear, O My people, and I will admonish you—
O Israel, if you would listen to Me!
Bible in Basic English
Give ear, O my people, and I will give you my word, O Israel, if you will only do as I say!
Julia Smith Translation
Hear, O my people, and I will testify in thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hear to me;
King James 2000
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto you: O Israel, if you will hearken unto me;
Lexham Expanded Bible
Hear, O my people, and I will admonish you; O Israel, if you would [but] listen to me.
Modern King James verseion
Hear, O My people, and I will testify to you; O Israel, if you will listen to Me,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Hear, O my people; for I assure thee, O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me.
NET Bible
I said, 'Listen, my people! I will warn you! O Israel, if only you would obey me!
New Heart English Bible
"Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me.
The Emphasized Bible
Hear, O my people, and I will adjure thee, O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me!
Webster
Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee; O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me;
World English Bible
"Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!
Youngs Literal Translation
Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me:
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 81:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Call To Obedience
7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah. 8 Hear, my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me! 9 There shall no strange god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 50:7
Hear, my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, thy God.
Exodus 15:26
And he said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and do what is right in his eyes, and incline thine ears to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the complaints upon thee that I have put upon the Egyptians; for I am Jehovah who healeth thee.
Deuteronomy 5:27
Come thou near, and hear all that Jehovah our God will say; and speak thou to us all that Jehovah our God will speak to thee; and we will hear it, and do it.
Deuteronomy 32:46
he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words that I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to take heed to do, all the words of this law.
Psalm 81:13
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways!
Isaiah 1:19
If ye be willing and hearken, ye shall eat the good of the land;
Isaiah 55:3-4
Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David.
John 3:11
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that which we know, and we bear witness of that which we have seen, and ye receive not our witness.
John 3:32-33
and what he has seen and has heard, this he testifies; and no one receives his testimony.
Acts 20:21
testifying to both Jews and Greeks repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 John 5:9
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. For this is the witness of God which he has witnessed concerning his Son.