Deuteronomy 32:1
What does Deuteronomy 32:1 mean?
A plain-English look at Deuteronomy 32:1 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak; And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak; And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Give ear, O heavens, to my voice; let the earth take note of the words of my mouth:
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862`Give ear, O heavens, and I speak; And thou dost hear, O earth, sayings of my mouth!
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak; And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth!
Context
v.1This passage
v.2My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My speech shall distil as the dew, As the small rain upon the tender grass, And as the showers upon the herb.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 4:26
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over the Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 31:28
Assemble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.
- Deuteronomy 30:19
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed;
- Jeremiah 22:29
O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Jehovah.
- Jeremiah 2:12
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith Jehovah.
- Jeremiah 6:19
Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
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