Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
This is not the way to repay the LORD, is it, you foolish and witless people? Is he not your father, who bought you, formed you, and established you?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
Holman Bible
you foolish and senseless people?
Isn’t He your Father and Creator?
Didn’t He make you and sustain you?
A Conservative Version
Do ye thus requite LORD, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father who has bought thee? He has made thee, and established thee.
American Standard Version
Do ye thus requite Jehovah, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? He hath made thee, and established thee.
Amplified
“Do you thus repay the Lord,
O foolish and unwise people?
Is not He your Father who has acquired you [as His own]?
He has made you and established you [as a nation].
Bible in Basic English
Is this your answer to the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not your father who has given you life? He has made you and given you your place.
Darby Translation
Do ye thus requite Jehovah, Foolish and unwise people? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? Hath he not made thee and established thee?
Julia Smith Translation
To Jehovah will ye recompense this, A people foolish and not wise? He thy father: did he not buy thee? He made thee, and he will protect thee.
King James 2000
Do you thus repay the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he your father that has bought you? has he not made you, and established you?
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Like] this do you treat Yahweh, foolish and {unwise} people? [Has] he not, your father, created you? He made you, and he established you.
Modern King James verseion
Do you thus give back to Jehovah, Oh foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father who bought you? Has He not made you and established you?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Dost thou so reward the LORD? O foolish nation and unwise. Is not he thy father and thine owner? Hath he not made thee and ordained thee?
NET Bible
Is this how you repay the Lord, you foolish, unwise people? Is he not your father, your creator? He has made you and established you.
New Heart English Bible
Do you thus requite the LORD, foolish people and unwise? Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.
The Emphasized Bible
Is it Yahweh, ye thus requite, O impious people and unwise? Is not, he, thy father who begat thee? He, that made thee and established thee?
Webster
Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
World English Bible
Do you thus requite Yahweh, foolish people and unwise? Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.
Youngs Literal Translation
To Jehovah do ye act thus, O people foolish and not wise? Is not He thy father -- thy possessor? He made thee, and doth establish thee.
Themes
Character » Of the wicked » Foolish
Character » Of the wicked » Unwise
Character of the wicked » Foolish
Character of the wicked » Unwise
God » Fatherhood of » God spoken of as the father of all men
God » Ownership of » Of the souls of men
Heavenly » Father » God spoken of as the father of all men
Ingratitude to God » Exceeding folly of
Obligation » A motive of obedience
divine Ownership » Of the souls of men
Privileges of saints » Having God for their » Father
Universal » Blessing, possible » God spoken of as the father of all men
Topics
Interlinear
Gamal
'ab
Qanah
References
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Easton
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 32:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Moses' Song
5 But those who are not his children acted corruptly against him; they are a defective and perverted generation. 6 This is not the way to repay the LORD, is it, you foolish and witless people? Is he not your father, who bought you, formed you, and established you? 7 Remember the days of old, reflect on the years of previous generations. Ask your father, and he'll tell you; your elders will inform you.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 63:16
But you are our Father, even Abraham does not know us and Israel has not acknowledged us; you are he, O LORD, our Father, from long ago, "Our Redeemer' is your name.
Psalm 74:2
Remember your community, whom you purchased long ago, the tribe whom you redeemed for your possession. Remember Mount Zion, where you live.
Deuteronomy 32:15
Jacob dined until satisfied; Jeshurun grew fat and kicked. He grew fat, coarse, and gross, so that he abandoned the God who made him and spurned the Rock that was his salvation.
Isaiah 44:2
This what the LORD says, the one who made you, formed you from the womb, and who will help you: "Don't be afraid, Jacob my servant, and Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
John 8:41
You are doing your father's actions." They told him, "We're not illegitimate children. We have one Father, God himself."
Acts 20:28
Pay attention to yourselves and to the entire flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to be shepherds of God's church, which he acquired with his own blood.
Exodus 4:22
You are to say to Pharaoh, "This is what the LORD says: "Israel is my firstborn son.
Exodus 15:16
Dread and fear have fallen on them, because of the strength of your arm. They have become silent as a stone, until your people pass by, LORD, until this people you acquired pass by.
Deuteronomy 1:31
In the desert you saw that the LORD carried you like a man carries his son, on every road you traveled until you reached this place.'
Deuteronomy 32:18
You neglected the Rock that fathered you; you abandoned God, who was awaiting your birth.
Job 10:8
Your hands formed and fashioned me, but then you have destroyed me all at once on all sides.
Psalm 74:18
Remember this: The enemy scorns the LORD and a foolish people despises your name.
Psalm 95:6
Come! Let us worship and bow down; let us kneel in the presence of the LORD, who made us.
Psalm 100:3
Acknowledge that the LORD is God. He made us and we belong to him; we are his people and the sheep of his pasture.
Psalm 116:12
What will I return to the LORD for all his benefits to me?
Psalm 149:2
May Israel rejoice in its Maker, and Zion's descendants in their King!
Isaiah 1:2
Listen, you heavens, and let the earth pay attention, because the LORD has spoken: "I reared children and brought them to adulthood, but then they rebelled against me.
Isaiah 27:11
When its branches are dry, they are broken off, and women come and kindle fires with them, since this is a people who show no consideration. That is why the One who made them shows them no compassion; the One who created them shows them no mercy.
Isaiah 43:3-4
"I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Redeemer And I've given Egypt as your ransom, Cush and the people of Seba in exchange for you.
Isaiah 43:7
everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.
Isaiah 64:8
But as for you, O LORD, you are our Father; and we are clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hands.
Jeremiah 4:22
"For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They're stupid children, they have no understanding. They're skilled at doing evil, but how to do good, they don't know."
Jeremiah 5:21
"Hear this, you foolish and stupid people: They have eyes, but don't see; they have ears, but don't hear.
Luke 15:18-20
I will get up, go to my father, and say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and you.
Romans 8:15
For you have not received a spirit of slavery that leads you into fear again. Instead, you have received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba! Father!"
1 Corinthians 6:20
because you were bought for a price. Therefore, glorify God with your bodies.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
The love of the Messiah controls us, for we are convinced of this: that one person died for all people; therefore, all people have died.
Galatians 3:1-3
You foolish Galatians! Who put you under a spell? Was not Jesus the Messiah clearly portrayed before your very eyes as having been crucified?
Galatians 3:26
For all of you are God's children through faith in the Messiah Jesus.
Galatians 4:6
Now because you are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts to cry out, "Abba! Father!"
Titus 2:11-14
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people.
2 Peter 2:1
Now there were false prophets among the people, just as there also will be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies and even deny the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction on themselves.
1 John 3:1
See what kind of love the Father has given us: We are called God's children and that is what we are! For this reason the world does not recognize us, because it did not recognize him, either.