11 translations · Hebrew
Isaiah 30:21
and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
Isaiah 30:21 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
- KJV King James Version
- And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”
- ASV American Standard Version
- and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it; when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- And your ear hears a word behind you, saying, “This [is] the way, go in it,” || When you turn to the right, || And when you turn to the left.
- FBV Free Bible Version
- When you walk to the right or to the left, you will hear this command coming from behind you: “This is the way to follow.”
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- And thine ear heareth a word behind thee, Saying, 'This [is] the way, go ye in it,' When ye turn to the right, And when ye turn to the left.
- DBY Darby Translation
- And when ye turn to the right hand or when ye turn to the left, thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- And thy ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- And thy ears shall hear the word of one admonishing thee behind thy back: This is the way, walk ye in it: and go not aside neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְאָזְנֶ֙יךָ֙ | wə·’ā·zə·ne·ḵā | your ears | H241 אֹ֫זֶן ear |
| תִּשְׁמַ֣עְנָה | tiš·ma‘·nāh | will hear | H8085 שָׁמַע to hear: hear |
| דָבָ֔ר | ḏā·ḇār | this command | H1697 דָּבָר word |
| מֵֽאַחֲרֶ֖יךָ | mê·’a·ḥă·re·ḵā | behind you | H310 אַחַר after |
| לֵאמֹ֑ר | lê·mōr | — | H559 אָמַר to say |
| זֶ֤ה | zeh | This | H2088 זֶה this |
| הַדֶּ֙רֶךְ֙ | had·de·reḵ | is the way | H1870 דֶּ֫רֶךְ way: conduct |
| לְכ֣וּ | lə·ḵū | Walk | H1980 הָלַךְ to go: went |
| ב֔וֹ | ḇōw | in it | H9003 ב in/on/with |
| כִּ֥י | kî | And whether | H3588 כִּי for |
| תַאֲמִ֖ינוּ | ṯa·’ă·mî·nū | you turn to the right | H541 אָמַן to turn right |
| וְכִ֥י | wə·ḵî | — | H3588 כִּי for |
| תַשְׂמְאִֽילוּ׃ | ṯaś·mə·’î·lū | or to the left | H8041 שִׂמְאֵל to go left |
Related verses
- Psalm 32:8
I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
- Proverbs 3:5–6
Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
- Isaiah 58:11
and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don’t fail.
- Isaiah 42:16
I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
- Deuteronomy 5:32
You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn away to the right hand or to the left.
- Isaiah 35:8–9
A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there. No lion will be there, nor will any ravenous animal go up on it. They will not be found there; but the redeemed will walk there.
- Psalm 143:8–10
Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you. Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me. Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
- Isaiah 48:17
Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
- Jeremiah 6:16
Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
- Joshua 1:7
Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
19 For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.
20 Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;
21 and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
22 You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!”
23 He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.
Read all of Isaiah 30 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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