Isaiah 7:11

In 11 translations

BSB

“Ask for a sign from the LORD your God, whether from the depths of Sheol or the heights of heaven.”

KJV

Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.ask it…: or, make thy petition deep

WEB

“Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.”

ASV

Ask thee a sign of Jehovah thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

LSV

“Ask for a sign from your God YHWH, || Make the request deep, or make [it] high upwards.”

YLT

'Ask for thee a sign from Jehovah thy God, Make deep the request, or make [it] high upwards.'

DBY

Ask for thee a sign from Jehovah thy God; ask for it in the deep, or in the height above.Elohim

DRC

Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God either unto the depth of hell, or unto the height above.

GNV

Aske a signe for thee of the Lord thy God: aske it, either in the depth beneath or in the height aboue.

JPS

'Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God: ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.'

LXXE

Ask for thyself a sign of the Lord thy God, in the depth or in the height.

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Original-language editions

WLC

שְׁאַל־לְךָ֣ א֔וֹת מֵעִ֖ם יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ הַעְמֵ֣ק שְׁאָ֔לָה א֖וֹ הַגְבֵּ֥הַּ לְמָֽעְלָה׃

LXX-Br

αἴτησαι σεαυτῷ σημεῖον παρὰ Κυρίου Θεοῦ σου εἰς βάθος, ἢ εἰς ὕψος.

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• Isaiah 37:30And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat…
• Isaiah 38:7–8This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: I will make the sun’s shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had…
• 2 Kings 19:29And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat…
• Judges 6:36–40Then Gideon said to God, “If You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said, then behold, I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry,…
• 2 Kings 20:8–11Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?” And Isaiah had replied, “This will be a sign to you from the LORD that…
• Isaiah 38:22And Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?”
• Matthew 12:38–40Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.” Jesus replied, “A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of the prophet…
• Jeremiah 19:10Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,
• Matthew 16:1–4Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came and tested Jesus by asking Him to show them a sign from heaven. But He replied, “When evening comes, you say, ‘The weather will be fair, for the sky is red,’ and in the morning,…
• Jeremiah 19:1This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests,
• Jeremiah 51:63–64When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates. Then you are to say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And…

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