Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,
Parallel translations
- WEB Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.
- KJV Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;
- NKJV Listen, O daughter, Consider and incline your ear; Forget your own people also, and your father’s house;
- NASB ¶Listen, daughter, look and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house;
- NLT Listen to me, O royal daughter; take to heart what I say. Forget your people and your family far away.
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Quick answer
The bride is urged to listen and leave behind her own people and father's house. It matters because devotion to the king calls for wholehearted allegiance.
Overview
The poet counsels the bride to give her full loyalty to the king, leaving former ties. This pictures the costly, complete devotion fitting a royal marriage. So too the church is called to forsake all rival loyalties and give herself wholly to Christ, her Lord and Bridegroom.
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- Song 2:10–13My beloved calls to me, “Arise, my darling. Come away with me, my beautiful one.
- Gen 12:1Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.
- Matt 19:29And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.
- Matt 10:37Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
- 2 Cor 6:17“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
- Gen 2:24For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
- Deut 21:13and put aside the clothing of her captivity. After she has lived in your house a full month and mourned her father and mother, you may have relations with her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
- Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
- Deut 33:9He said of his father and mother, ‘I do not consider them.’ He disregarded his brothers and did not know his own sons, for he kept Your word and maintained Your covenant.
- 2 Cor 5:16So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
- Isa 55:1–3“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
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