Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;
Parallel translations
- WEB Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.
- BSB Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your 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.
Cross-references & the web
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- Song 2:10–13My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
- Gen 12:1Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
- Matt 19:29And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
- Matt 10:37He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
- 2 Cor 6:17Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
- Gen 2:24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
- Deut 21:13And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
- Luke 14:26If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
- Deut 33:9Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.
- 2 Cor 5:16Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
- Isa 55:1–3Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
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