Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version We are yours from of old; but you have not ruled over them, they have not been called by your name. New Living Translation Sometimes it seems as though we never belonged to you, as though we had never been known as your people. English Standard Version We have become like those over whom you have never ruled, like those who are not called by your name. Berean Standard Bible We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name. King James Bible We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name. New King James Version We have become like those of old, over whom You never ruled, Those who were never called by Your name. New American Standard Bible We have become like those over whom You have never ruled, Like those who were not called by Your name. NASB 1995 We have become like those over whom You have never ruled, Like those who were not called by Your name. NASB 1977 We have become like those over whom Thou hast never ruled, Like those who were not called by Thy name. Legacy Standard Bible We have become like those over whom You have never ruled, Like those who were not called by Your name. Amplified Bible We have become like those over whom You have never ruled, Like those who were not called by Your name. Christian Standard Bible We have become like those you never ruled, like those who did not bear your name. Holman Christian Standard Bible We have become like those You never ruled over, like those not called by Your name. American Standard Version We are become as they over whom thou never barest rule, as they that were not called by thy name. Aramaic Bible in Plain English We were from old times before you were authorized over them, and your name was not called upon them Brenton Septuagint Translation We are become as at the beginning, when thou didst not rule over us, and thy name was not called upon us. Contemporary English Version We act as though you had never ruled us or called us your people. Douay-Rheims Bible We are become as in the beginning, when thou didst not rule over us, and when we were not called by thy name. English Revised Version We are become as they over whom thou never barest rule; as they that were not called by thy name. GOD'S WORD® Translation We have become like those whom you never ruled, like those who are not called by your name. Good News Translation You treat us as though you had never been our ruler, as though we had never been your people. International Standard Version For a long time we have been those you do not rule, those who are not called by your name. JPS Tanakh 1917 We are become as they over whom Thou never borest rule, As they that were not called by Thy name. Literal Standard Version We have been from of old, | You have not ruled over them, | Your Name is not called on them! Majority Standard Bible We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name. New American Bible Too long have we been like those you do not rule, on whom your name is not invoked. NET Bible We existed from ancient times, but you did not rule over them, they were not your subjects. New Revised Standard Version We have long been like those whom you do not rule, like those not called by your name. New Heart English Bible We have become as they over whom you never bear rule, as those who were not called by your name. Webster's Bible Translation We are thine: thou never didst bear rule over them; they were not called by thy name. World English Bible We have become like those over whom you never ruled, like those who were not called by your name. Young's Literal Translation We have been from of old, Thou hast not ruled over them, Not called is Thy name upon them! Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context A Prayer for Mercy…18For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary. 19We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name. Cross References Acts 15:17 so that the remnant of men may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by My name, says the Lord who does these things Isaiah 63:18 For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary. Isaiah 64:1 If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence, Isaiah 65:1 "I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me; I was found by those who did not seek Me. To a nation that did not call My name, I said, 'Here I am! Here I am!' Jeremiah 14:9 Why are You like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save? Yet You are among us, O LORD, and we are called by Your name. Do not forsake us! Treasury of Scripture We are yours: you never bore rule over them; they were not called by your name. are thine Psalm 79:6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name. Psalm 135:4 For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure. Jeremiah 10:25 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate. they were not called by thy name. Isaiah 65:1 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name. Amos 9:12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this. Acts 15:17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things. Jump to Previous Barest Bear Rule RuledJump to Next Barest Bear Rule RuledIsaiah 63 1. Christ shows who he is2. What his victory over his enemies 7. And what his mercy toward his church 10. In his just wrath he remembers his free mercy 15. The church, in her prayer 17. And complaint, professes her faith (19) We are thine . . .--Thine, as the italics show, is not in the Hebrew, and its insertion distorts the meaning. Better, We are become as those over whom Thou hast never ruled, upon whom Thy name hath never been called (Cheyne). What the prophet presents as a plea is not the contrast between Israel and the heathen, but the fact that Israel has been left to sink to the level of the heathen who had not known God. Would not that thought move Jehovah, as it were, to remember this covenant? Verse 19. - We are thine. There is no "thine" in the original, and so important a word cannot possibly be supplied from without. Translate, We are as those over whom thou hast not ruled from of old, as those upon whom thy Name has not been called; i.e. we have lost all our privileges - we have become in God's sight no better than the heathen - he has forgotten that we were ever his people. |
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