Hear you, and testify in the house of Jacob, said the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
Hear you, and testify in the house of Jacob, said the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
Hear ye, and testify against the house of Jacob, saith the Lord Jehovah, the God of hosts.
Give ear now, and give witness against the family of Jacob, says the Lord God, the God of armies;
Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
"Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob," says the Lord Yahweh, the God of Armies.
Hear ye, and testify against the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts.
Hear ye - This is an address to the prophet.
Hear ye and testify ye in - (Rather unto or against ) the house of Israel; first "hear" yourselves, then "testify," that is, solemnly "protest," in the Name of God; and "bear witness unto" and "against" them, so that the solemn words may sink into them. It is of little avail to "testfy," unless we first "hear;" nor can man "bear witness" to what he doth not know; nor will words make an "impression," that is, leave a trace of themselves, be stamped in or on people's souls, unless the soul which utters them have first hearkened unto them.
Saith the Lord God of hosts - "So thundereth, as it were, the authority of the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of the shepherd. Foretelling and protesting the destruction of the altar of Bethel, he sets his God against the god whom Israel had chosen as theirs and worshiped there, "the Lord God of hosts," against "the similitude of a calf that eateth hay" Psalm 106:20. Not I, a shepherd, but so speaketh my God against your god."
3:13 Hear ye - Prophets. The God of hosts - Who is Lord of all, and hath all power in his hand.