Amos 3:13

Brenton's Septuagint

Hear, O ye priests, and testify to the house of Jacob, saith the Lord God Almighty.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Listen and testify against the house of Jacob—

Hebrew Names Version
"Listen, and testify against the house of Ya`akov," says the Lord GOD, the God Tzva'ot,.

King James Version
Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord God , the God of hosts,

English Standard Version
"Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob," declares the Lord God , the God of hosts,

New American Standard Bible
"Hear and testify against the house of Jacob," Declares the Lord GOD, the God of armies.

New Century Version
"Listen and be witnesses against the family of Jacob," says the Lord God , the God All-Powerful.

Amplified Bible
"Hear and testify against the house of Jacob," Says the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Heare, and testifie in the house of Iaakob, saith the Lord God, the God of hostes.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Hear and testify against the house of Jacob," Declares the Lord GOD, the God of hosts.

Legacy Standard Bible
Hear and testify against the house of Jacob,"Declares Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts.

Berean Standard Bible
Hear and testify against the house of Jacob, declares the Lord GOD, the God of Hosts.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord God All-Powerful told me to speak this message against Jacob's descendants:

Complete Jewish Bible
"As a shepherd rescues from the mouth of a lion a couple of leg bones or a piece of an ear; so the people of Isra'el in Shomron will be rescued, huddled under cushions in the corners of their beds. "Hear, and testify against the house of Ya‘akov," says Adonai Elohim Elohei-Tzva'ot.

Darby Translation
Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord Jehovah, the God of hosts,

Easy-to-Read Version
This is what the Lord God All-Powerful says: "Warn the family of Jacob about these things.

George Lamsa Translation
Hear, and testify in the house of Jacob, says the LORD God, the God of hosts of Israel,

Good News Translation
Listen now, and warn the descendants of Jacob," says the Sovereign Lord Almighty.

Lexham English Bible
"Listen and testify against the house of Jacob," declares my Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts.

Literal Translation
Hear and testify in the house of Jacob, declares the Lord Jehovah, the God of Hosts.

American Standard Version
Hear ye, and testify against the house of Jacob, saith the Lord Jehovah, the God of hosts.

Bible in Basic English
Give ear now, and give witness against the family of Jacob, says the Lord God, the God of armies;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Hear ye, and testify against the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts.

King James Version (1611)
Heare yee and testifie in the house of Iacob, saith the Lord God, the God of hostes;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Heare and testifie in the house of Iacob, saith the Lord God, the God of hoastes:

English Revised Version
Hear ye, and testify against the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts.

World English Bible
"Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob," says the Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Here ye, and witnesse ye in the hous of Jacob, seith the Lord God of oostis.

Update Bible Version
Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob, says the Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts.

Webster's Bible Translation
Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,

New English Translation
Listen and warn the family of Jacob! The sovereign Lord , the God who commands armies, is speaking!

New King James Version
Hear and testify against the house of Jacob," Says the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,

New Living Translation
"Now listen to this, and announce it throughout all Israel," says the Lord, the Lord God of Heaven's Armies.

New Life Bible
Hear and speak against the family of Jacob," says the Lord God, the God of All.

New Revised Standard
Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob, says the Lord God , the God of hosts:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Hear ye and bear witness, throughout the house of Jacob, - Commandeth My Lord, Yahweh, God of hosts:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord the God of hosts:

Revised Standard Version
"Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob," says the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,

Young's Literal Translation
Hear ye and testify to the house of Jacob, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, God of Hosts.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Heare, and beare recorde in the house of Iacob (sayeth the LORDE God of hoostes)

THE MESSAGE
"Listen and bring witness against Jacob's family"— this is God's Word, God -of-the-Angel-Armies! "Note well! The day I make Israel pay for its sins, pay for the sin-altars of worship at Bethel, The horned altars will all be dehorned and scattered around. I'll tear down the winter palace, smash the summer palace—all your fancy buildings. The luxury homes will be demolished, all those pretentious houses." God 's Decree.

Contextual Overview

⁹ Proclaim it to the regions among the Assyrians, and to the regions of Egypt, and say, Gather yourselves to the mountain of Samaria, and behold many wonderful things in the midst of it, and the oppression that is in it. ¹⁰ And she knew not what things would come against her, saith the Lord, even those that store up wrong and misery in their countries. ¹¹ Therefore thus saith the Lord God; O Tyre, thy land shall be made desolate round about thee; and he shall bring down thy strength out of thee, and thy countries shall be spoiled. ¹² Thus saith the Lord; As when a shepherd rescues from the mouth of a lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so shall be drawn forth the children of Israel who dwell in Samaria in the presence of a foreign tribe, and in Damascus. ¹³ Hear, O ye priests, and testify to the house of Jacob, saith the Lord God Almighty. ¹⁴ For in the day wherein I shall take vengeance of the sins of Israel upon him, I will also take vengeance on the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be broken down, and they shall fall upon the ground. ¹⁵ I will crush and smite the turreted-house upon the summer-house; and the ivory-houses shall be destroyed, and many other houses also, saith the Lord.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and testify: Deuteronomy 8:19, Deuteronomy 30:18, Deuteronomy 30:19, 2 Kings 17:13, 2 Kings 17:15, 2 Chronicles 24:19, Acts 2:40, Acts 18:5, Acts 18:6, Acts 20:21, Ephesians 4:17, 1 Thessalonians 4:6

the Lord: Amos 5:27, Joshua 22:22, Isaiah 1:24

Reciprocal: Exodus 33:3 - lest I Isaiah 7:13 - will ye Amos 4:13 - The Lord Amos 5:16 - the Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 3:4
but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

Genesis 3:6
For God knew that in whatever day ye should eat of it your eyes would be opened, and ye would be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Genesis 3:10
And the Lord God called Adam and said to him, Adam, where art thou?

Genesis 3:12
And God said to him, Who told thee that thou wast naked, unless thou hast eaten of the tree concerning which I charged thee of it alone not to eat?

Genesis 44:15
And Joseph said to them, What is this thing that ye have done? know ye not that a man such as I can surely divine?

1 Samuel 13:11
And Samuel said, What hast thou done? and Saul said, Because I saw how the people were scattered from me, and thou was not present as thou purposedst according to the set time of the days, and the Philistines were gathered to Machmas.

2 Samuel 3:24
And Joab went in to the king, and said, What is this that thou hast done? behold, Abenner came to thee; and why hast thou let him go, and he has departed in peace?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob,.... The prophets and priests, whose business it was to speak to the people from the Lord, and declare his will to them, and to admonish them of their sin and danger, are here called upon to hearken to what the Lord was about to say, and to testify and publish it to the people of Israel, the posterity of Jacob, though sadly degenerated:

saith the Lord God, the God of hosts; the eternal Jehovah, the Being of beings, the God of the whole earth, the God of the armies above and below; and, being so great, ought to be heard with the greatest attention and reverence in what follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hear ye and testify ye in - (Rather unto or against ) the house of Israel; first “hear” yourselves, then “testify,” that is, solemnly “protest,” in the Name of God; and “bear witness unto” and “against” them, so that the solemn words may sink into them. It is of little avail to “testfy,” unless we first “hear;” nor can man “bear witness” to what he doth not know; nor will words make an “impression,” that is, leave a trace of themselves, be stamped in or on people’s souls, unless the soul which utters them have first hearkened unto them.

Saith the Lord God of hosts - “So thundereth, as it were, the authority of the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of the shepherd. Foretelling and protesting the destruction of the altar of Bethel, he sets his God against the god whom Israel had chosen as theirs and worshiped there, “the Lord God of hosts,” against “the similitude of a calf that eateth hay” Psalms 106:20. Not I, a shepherd, but so speaketh my God against your god.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Amos 3:13. Hear ye — This is an address to the prophet.