Parallel Verses

Amplified


For He is our God
And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.
Today, if you will hear His voice,

New American Standard Bible

For He is our God,
And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.
Today, if you would hear His voice,

King James Version

For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,

Holman Bible

For He is our God,
and we are the people of His pasture,
the sheep under His care.


Today, if you hear His voice:

International Standard Version

For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the flock in his care. If only you would listen to his voice today,

A Conservative Version

For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, O that ye would hear his voice!

American Standard Version

For he is our God, And we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To-day, oh that ye would hear his voice!

Bible in Basic English

For he is our God; and we are the people to whom he gives food, and the sheep of his flock. Today, if you would only give ear to his voice!

Darby Translation

For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. To-day if ye hear his voice,

Julia Smith Translation

For he is our God, and we the people of his feeding and the sheep of his hand. This day if ye will, hear to his voice.

King James 2000

For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today if you will hear his voice,

Lexham Expanded Bible

For he [is] our God, and we [are] the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. {Today} if you will hear his voice:

Modern King James verseion

For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand. Today if you will hear His voice,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hands.

NET Bible

For he is our God; we are the people of his pasture, the sheep he owns. Today, if only you would obey him!

New Heart English Bible

for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice.

The Emphasized Bible

For, he, is our God, And, we, are the people of his pasture, and the flock of his hand? To-day, if, to his voice, ye will hearken,

Webster

For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To-day, if ye will hear his voice,

World English Bible

for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

Youngs Literal Translation

For He is our God, and we the people of His pasture, And the flock of His hand, To-day, if to His voice ye hearken,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For he is our God
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

and we are the people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

מרעית 
Mir`iyth 
Usage: 10

and the sheep
צאון צאןo 
Tso'n 
Usage: 274

of his hand
יד 
Yad 
Usage: 1612

To day
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

if ye will hear
שׁמע 
Shama` 
Usage: 1158

References

Easton

Morish

Context Readings

A Call To Worship And Obey

6
O come, let us worship and bow down,
Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker [in reverent praise and prayer].
7 
For He is our God
And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.
Today, if you will hear His voice,
8
Do not harden your hearts and become spiritually dull as at Meribah [the place of strife],
And as at Massah [the place of testing] in the wilderness,

Cross References

Hebrews 3:15

while it is said,

Today [while there is still opportunity] if you hear His voice,
Do not harden your heart, as when they provoked Me [in the rebellion in the desert at Meribah].”

Hebrews 4:7

He again sets a definite day, [a new] “Today,” [providing another opportunity to enter that rest by] saying through David after so long a time, just as has been said before [in the words already quoted],

Today if you hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts.”

Psalm 48:14


For this is God,
Our God forever and ever;
He will be our guide even until death.

Psalm 74:1

O God, why have You rejected us forever?
Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

Exodus 15:2


“The Lord is my strength and my song,
And He has become my salvation;
This is my God, and I will praise Him;
My father’s God, and I will exalt Him.

Exodus 20:2

“I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Psalm 23:1

The Lord is my Shepherd [to feed, to guide and to shield me],
I shall not want.

Psalm 67:6


The earth has yielded its harvest [as evidence of His approval];
God, our God, blesses us.

Psalm 79:13-1


So we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture,
Will give You thanks forever;
We will declare and publish Your praise from generation to generation.

Psalm 100:3


Know and fully recognize with gratitude that the Lord Himself is God;
It is He who has made us, not we ourselves [and we are His].
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

Psalm 115:3


But our God is in heaven;
He does whatever He pleases.

Proverbs 8:6


“Listen, for I will speak excellent and noble things;
And the opening of my lips will reveal right things.

Isaiah 40:10-11


Listen carefully, the Lord God will come with might,
And His arm will rule for Him.
Most certainly His reward is with Him,
And His restitution accompanies Him.

Isaiah 55:3


“Incline your ear [to listen] and come to Me;
Hear, so that your soul may live;
And I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
According to the faithful mercies [promised and] shown to David.

Jeremiah 31:33

“But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the Lord, “I will put My law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be My people.

Ezekiel 34:30-31

Then they will know [with assurance] that I the Lord their God, am with them and that they, the house of Israel, are My people,” says the Lord God.

Matthew 3:2-3

Repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, regret past sins, live your life in a way that proves repentance; seek God’s purpose for your life], for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

Matthew 17:5

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased and delighted! Listen to Him!”

John 10:3-4

The doorkeeper opens [the gate] for this man, and the sheep hear his voice and pay attention to it. And [knowing that they listen] he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out [to pasture].

John 10:14-16

I am the Good Shepherd, and I know [without any doubt those who are] My own and My own know Me [and have a deep, personal relationship with Me]—

Acts 20:28

Take care and be on guard for yourselves and for the whole flock over which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as overseers, to shepherd (tend, feed, guide) the church of God which He bought with His own blood.

Hebrews 3:7-11

Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,

Today if you hear His voice,

Hebrews 3:13

But continually encourage one another every day, as long as it is called “Today” [and there is an opportunity], so that none of you will be hardened [into settled rebellion] by the deceitfulness of sin [its cleverness, delusive glamour, and sophistication].

Hebrews 11:16

But the truth is that they were longing for a better country, that is, a heavenly one. For that reason God is not ashamed [of them or] to be called their God [even to be surnamed their God—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob]; for He has prepared a city for them.

1 Peter 2:25

For you were continually wandering like [so many] sheep, but now you have come back to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.

Revelation 3:20

Behold, I stand at the door [of the church] and continually knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him (restore him), and he with Me.

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