Amos 3:13

Wycliffe Bible

Here ye, and witnesse ye in the hous of Jacob, seith the Lord God of oostis.

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:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Hear, O ye priests, and testify to the house of Jacob, saith the Lord God Almighty.

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.

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 Make ye herd in the housis of Azotus, and in the housis of the lond of Egipt; and seie ye, Be ye gaderid togidere on the hillis of Samarye, and se ye many woodnessis in the myddis therof, and hem that suffren fals calenge in the priuy places therof. ¹⁰ And thei kouden not do riytful thing, seith the Lord, and tresouriden wickidnesse and raueyn in her housis. ¹¹ Therfor the Lord God seith these thingis, The lond schal be troblid, and be cumpassid; and thi strengthe schal be drawun doun of thee, and thin housis schulen be rauyschid. ¹² The Lord God seith these thingis, As if a schepherd rauyschith fro the mouth of a lioun tweyne hipis, ether the laste thing of the eere, so the children of Israel schulen be rauyschid, that dwellen in Samarie, in the cuntrei of bed, and in the bed of Damask. ¹³ Here ye, and witnesse ye in the hous of Jacob, seith the Lord God of oostis. ¹⁴ For in the dai, whanne Y schal bigynne to visite the trespassyngis of Israel on hym, Y schal visite also on the auteris of Bethel; and the hornes of the auter schulen be kit awei, and schulen falle doun in to erthe. ¹⁵ And Y schal smyte the wynter hous with the somer hous, and the housis of yuer schulen perische, and many housis schulen be distried, seith 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
Forsothe the serpent seide to the womman, ye schulen not die bi deeth;

Genesis 3:6
Therfore the womman seiy that the tre was good, and swete to ete, and fair to the iyen, and delitable in bi holdyng; and sche took of the fruyt therof, and eet, and yaf to hir hosebande, and he eet.

Genesis 3:9
And the Lord God clepide Adam, and seide to hym, Where art thou?

Genesis 3:10
And Adam seide, Y herde thi vois in paradijs, and Y drede, for Y was nakid, and Y hidde me.

Genesis 3:12
And Adam seide, The womman which thou yauest felowe to me, yaf me of the tre, and Y eet.

Genesis 44:15
To whiche he seide, Whi wolden ye do so? whether ye witen not, that noon is lijk me in the kunnyng of dyuinyng?

1 Samuel 13:11
And Samuel spak to hym, What hast thou do? Saul answeride, For Y siy that the puple yede awei fro me, and thou camest not bi the daies of couenaunt; certis Filisteis weren gaderid in Machynas;

2 Samuel 3:24
And Joab entride to the kyng, and seide, What hast thou do? Lo! Abner cam to thee; whi leftist thou hym, and he yede, and departide?

John 18:35
Pilat answeride, Whether Y am a Jewe? Thi folc and bischops bitoken thee to me; what hast thou don?

1 Timothy 2:14
and Adam was not disseyued, but the womman was disseyued, in breking of the lawe.

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.