Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to 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!
Darby Translation
Hear, my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!
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!
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 81:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Call To Obedience
7 In distress thou hast called and I deliver thee, I answer thee in the secret place of thunder, I try thee by the waters of Meribah. Selah. 8 Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me: 9 There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 50:7
Hear, O My people, and I speak, O Israel, and I testify against thee, God, thy God am I.
Exodus 15:26
and He saith, 'If thou dost really hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and dost that which is right in His eyes, and hast hearkened to His commands, and kept all His statutes: none of the sickness which I laid on the Egyptians do I lay on thee, for I, Jehovah, am healing thee.
Deuteronomy 5:27
Draw near thou, and hear all that which Jehovah our God saith, and thou, thou dost speak unto us all that which Jehovah our God speaketh unto thee, and we have hearkened, and done it.
Deuteronomy 32:46
and saith unto them, 'Set your heart to all the words which I am testifying against you to-day, that ye command your sons to observe to do all the words of this law,
Psalm 81:13
O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.
Isaiah 1:19
If ye are willing, and have hearkened, The good of the land ye consume,
Isaiah 55:3-4
Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David -- that are stedfast.
John 3:11
Verily, verily, I say to thee -- What we have known we speak, and what we have seen we testify, and our testimony ye do not receive;
John 3:32-33
'And what he hath seen and heard this he doth testify, and his testimony none receiveth;
Acts 20:21
testifying fully both to Jews and Greeks, toward God reformation, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 John 5:9
If the testimony of men we receive, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that He hath testified concerning His Son.