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Complete Jewish Bible

Proverbs 1:21

she calls out at streetcorners and speaks out at entrances to city gates:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Gates;   Instruction;   Salvation;   Wisdom;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Gates;   The Topic Concordance - Calling;   Despisement;   Evil;   Fear;   Finding;   Hate;   Hearing;   Knowledge;   Reproof;   Safety;   Seeking;   Wisdom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Call of God, the;   Gates;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gate;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Wisdom;   Wisdom literature;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gate;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Concourse;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Quotations (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Concourse;   Crier;   Cry, Crying;   Gate;   Open Place;   Proverbs, Book of;   Wisdom;   Wisdom of God;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Alexandrian Philosophy;   Gate;   Synagogue;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
She cries out above the commotion;she speaks at the entrance of the city gates:
Hebrew Names Version
She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:
King James Version
She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
English Standard Version
at the head of the noisy streets she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:
New Century Version
She cries out in the noisy street and shouts at the city gates:
New English Translation
at the head of the noisy streets she calls, in the entrances of the gates in the city she utters her words:
Amplified Bible
She calls out at the head of the noisy streets [where large crowds gather]; At the entrance of the city gates she speaks her words:
New American Standard Bible
At the head of the noisy streets she cries out; At the entrance of the gates in the city she declares her sayings:
World English Bible
She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:
Geneva Bible (1587)
She calleth in the hye streete, among the prease in the entrings of the gates, and vttereth her wordes in the citie, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
At the head of the noisy streets she calls out;At the entrance of the gates in the city she utters her sayings:
Berean Standard Bible
in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:
Contemporary English Version
She shouts in the marketplaces and near the city gates as she says to the people,
Darby Translation
she calleth in the chief [place] of concourse, in the entry of the gates; in the city she uttereth her words:
Easy-to-Read Version
She is calling out where the noisy crowd gathers:
George Lamsa Translation
She preaches in the chief places of the concourse; in the openings of the gates of the city, she utters her words, saying,
Good News Translation
calling loudly at the city gates and wherever people come together:
Lexham English Bible
On a busy corner she cries out, at the entrances of the gates in the city, she speaks her sayings:
Literal Translation
she calls at the head of places of commotion; in the opening of the gates, in the city she utters her words:
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
She calleth before ye congregacion in ye open gates, and sheweth hir wordes thorow ye cite, sayenge:
American Standard Version
She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she uttereth her words:
Bible in Basic English
Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
She calleth at the head of the noisy streets, at the entrances of the gates, in the city, she uttereth her words:
King James Version (1611)
Shee crieth in the chiefe place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she vttereth her words, saying,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
She calleth before the congregation in the open gates, and sheweth her wordes through the citie, saying:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And she makes proclamation on the top of the walls, and sits by the gates of princes; and at the gates of the city boldly says,
English Revised Version
She crieth in the chief place of concourse; at the entering in of the gates, in the city, she uttereth her words:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
It crieth ofte in the heed of cumpenyes; in the leeues of yatis of the citee it bringith forth hise wordis,
Update Bible Version
She cries in the most noisy places; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she utters her words:
Webster's Bible Translation
She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, [saying],
New King James Version
She cries out in the chief concourses, [fn] At the openings of the gates in the cityShe speaks her words:
New Living Translation
She calls to the crowds along the main street, to those gathered in front of the city gate:
New Life Bible
There she cries out in the noisy streets. At the open gates of the city she speaks:
New Revised Standard
At the busiest corner she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
At the head of bustling streets, she crieth aloud, - at the openings of the gates in the city - her sayings, she doth utter: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:
Revised Standard Version
on the top of the walls she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:
Young's Literal Translation
At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith:
New American Standard Bible (1995)
At the head of the noisy streets she cries out; At the entrance of the gates in the city she utters her sayings:

Contextual Overview

20 Wisdom calls aloud in the open air and raises her voice in the public places; 21 she calls out at streetcorners and speaks out at entrances to city gates: 22 "How long, you whose lives have no purpose, will you love thoughtless living? How long will scorners find pleasure in mocking? How long will fools hate knowledge? 23 Repent when I reprove — I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make my words known to you. 24 Because you refused when I called, and no one paid attention when I put out my hand, 25 but instead you neglected my counsel and would not accept my reproof; 26 I, in turn, will laugh at your distress, and mock when terror comes over you — 27 yes, when terror overtakes you like a storm and your disaster approaches like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble assail you. 28 Then they will call me, but I won't answer; they will seek me earnestly, but they won't find me. 29 Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of Adonai ,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 9:3, Matthew 10:27, Matthew 13:2, John 18:20, Acts 5:20

Reciprocal: Leviticus 15:12 - vessel Proverbs 8:1 - General Proverbs 8:33 - refuse Proverbs 8:34 - watching Song of Solomon 3:2 - the streets Isaiah 45:19 - spoken Isaiah 55:1 - Ho Jeremiah 7:2 - Stand

Cross-References

Genesis 1:18
to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:24
(A: iii) God said, "Let the earth bring forth each kind of living creature — each kind of livestock, crawling animal and wild beast"; and that is how it was.
Genesis 1:25
God made each kind of wild beast, each kind of livestock and every kind of animal that crawls along the ground; and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, in the likeness of ourselves; and let them rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the animals, and over all the earth, and over every crawling creature that crawls on the earth."
Genesis 1:31
God saw everything that he had made, and indeed it was very good. So there was evening, and there was morning, a sixth day.
Genesis 6:20
Of each kind of bird, each kind of livestock, and each kind of animal creeping on the ground, two are to come to you, so that they can be kept alive.
Genesis 7:14
they, and every animal of every species, all the livestock of every species, every animal that creeps on the ground of every species, and every bird of every species — all sorts of winged creatures.
Genesis 8:17
Bring out with you every living thing you have with you — birds, livestock and every animal that creeps on the earth — so that they can swarm on the earth, be fruitful and multiply on the earth."
Genesis 8:19
every animal, every creeping thing and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.
Genesis 9:7
And you people, be fruitful, multiply, swarm on the earth and multiply on it."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

She crieth in the chief place of concourse,.... Where a multitude of people meet together; the Targum is,

"on the top of palaces;''

but rather it is to be understood of the synagogues of the Jews, where Christ frequently preached; and which, from hence, they build in the highest part of the city c; and best of all the temple, whither the tribes of Israel went up to worship in great bodies, and to which the Jews daily resorted; here Christ taught publicly, as he himself says,

John 18:20;

in the opening of the gates; either of the city, at which people went in and out in great numbers; or of the temple, where they passed and repassed continually on account of worship; see John 10:23; in allusion hereunto the public worship of God's house is signified by the gates of Zion, and also of Wisdom, Psalms 87:2;

in the city she uttereth her words; the doctrines of the Gospel; even in the city of Jerusalem literally, and in other cities of Judea and Galilee, the singular being put for the plural; and figuratively in the church of God, often compared to a city; and so all these expressions of "without", in the "streets", in the "chief place of concourse", "the opening of the gates", and "the city", may denote in general the openness and publicness of the Gospel ministry, both by Christ in his apostles, in Judea, and in the Gentile world; more especially the former;

[saying], as follows.

c Maimon. Hilchot Tephillah, c. 11. s. 2.


 
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