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Sing for Joy to God Our Strength

Psalms 81:9

In 11 translations

BSB
There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.
KJV
There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
WEB
There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.
ASV
There shall no strange god be in thee; Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.
LSV
There is not in you a strange god, || And you do not bow yourself to a strange god.
YLT
There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god.
DBY
There shall no strange god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.ElEl
DRC80:10
There shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god.
GNV
Let there bee no strange god in thee, neither worship thou any strange god.
JPS81:10
There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.
LXXE80:10
there shall be no new god in thee; neither shalt thou worship a strange god.

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Original-language editions

WLC81:10
לֹֽא־יִהְיֶ֣ה בְ֭ךָ אֵ֣ל זָ֑ר וְלֹ֥א תִ֝שְׁתַּחֲוֶ֗ה לְאֵ֣ל נֵכָֽר׃KJV:Ps.81.9
LXX-Br80:10
οὐκ ἔσται ἐν σοὶ θεὸς πρόσφατος, οὐδὲ προσκυνήσεις θεῷ ἀλλοτρίῳ.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Isaiah 43:12I alone decreed and saved and proclaimed— I, and not some foreign god among you. So you are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “that I am God.
  • Deuteronomy 32:12The LORD alone led him, and no foreign god was with him.
  • 1 Corinthians 8:5–6For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords), yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there…
  • Malachi 2:11Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.
  • Exodus 20:3–5You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath. You shall not bow down to them or worship…
  • Deuteronomy 6:14Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.
  • Psalms 44:20If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 81:10 in some Bibles
  • 81:9 in most Bibles

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