My people, hear my instruction; listen to the words from my mouth.

我的民哪，你们要留心听我的训诲，侧耳听我口中的话。

我的子民哪，要侧耳听我的训诲，竖起耳朵听我口中的言语。

我的子民哪，要侧耳听我的训诲，竖起耳朵听我口中的言语。

我的百姓啊！你们要听我的教导，侧耳倾听我的话。

我的民哪！你们要留心听我的教训，侧耳听我口中的言语。（本节在《马索拉文本》包括细字标题）

我的子民哪，当倾听我的律法，侧耳听我口中的言语！

我的民哪，你們要留心聽我的訓誨，側耳聽我口中的話。

我的子民哪，要側耳聽我的訓誨，豎起耳朵聽我口中的言語。

我的子民哪，要側耳聽我的訓誨，豎起耳朵聽我口中的言語。

我的百姓啊！你們要聽我的教導，側耳傾聽我的話。

我的民哪！你們要留心聽我的教訓，側耳聽我口中的言語。（本節在《馬索拉文本》包括細字標題）

我的人民哪，你們要側耳聽我的指教；傾耳聽我親口說的話。

我的子民哪，當傾聽我的律法，側耳聽我口中的言語！

我民歟、諦聽我訓、傾聽我口之言兮、

凡百庶民、余訓迪爾、尚其傾耳以聽兮、

我民須聽我訓、側耳聆我口中之言、

咨爾百姓。諦聽吾訓。

My people, hear my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth.

My people, listen to my teaching. Pay attention to what I say.

Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth!

O my people, listen to my instructions. Open your ears to what I am saying,

Listen, my people, to my instruction; Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

Give ear, O my people, to my law; Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

Give ear, O my people, to my law: Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

My people, hear my instruction; listen to what I say.

Give ear, O my people,[ to] my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

Pay attention, my people, to my instruction! Listen to the words I speak!

Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

Pay attention to me, my people, and listen to me, my nation; for instruction will come from me, and my justice for a light to the nations. I will bring it about quickly.

Pay attention and come to me; listen, so that you will live. I will make a permanent covenant with you on the basis of the faithful kindnesses of David.

“ People, I call out to you; my cry is to the children of Adam.Learn to be shrewd, you who are inexperienced; develop common sense, you who are foolish.Listen, for I speak of noble things, and what my lips say is right.

Against you— you alone— I have sinned and done this evil in your sight. So you are right when you pass sentence; you are blameless when you judge.

Listen, kings! Pay attention, princes! I will sing to the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.

Why have you rejected us forever, God? Why does your anger burn against the sheep of your pasture?

Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all who inhabit the world,both low and high, rich and poor together.My mouth speaks wisdom; my heart’s meditation brings understanding.

“ Listen, my people, and I will speak; I will testify against you, Israel. I am God, your God.

Let anyone who has ears listen.”

The Spirit of God came on Azariah son of Oded.So he went out to meet Asa and said to him,“ Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, hear me. The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without instruction,but when they turned to the LORD God of Israel in their distress and sought him, he was found by them.In those times there was no peace for those who went about their daily activities because the residents of the lands had many conflicts.Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every possible distress.But as for you, be strong; don’t give up, for your work has a reward.”When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the abhorrent idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He renovated the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD’s temple.Then he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, as well as those from the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were residing among them, for they had defected to him from Israel in great numbers when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.They were gathered in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.At that time they sacrificed to the LORD seven hundred cattle and seven thousand sheep and goats from all the plunder they had brought.Then they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their ancestors with all their heart and all their soul.Whoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel would be put to death, young or old, man or woman.They took an oath to the LORD in a loud voice, with shouting, with trumpets, and with rams’ horns.All Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn it wholeheartedly. They had sought him with all sincerity, and he was found by them. So the LORD gave them rest on every side.King Asa also removed Maacah, his grandmother, from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image, then crushed it and burned it in the Kidron Valley.