¹ tn Heb “listen to the voice of the Lord your God.” Here “listen” (NAB “hearken”) means “obey” (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB). The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

¹ tn Heb “listen to my voice.” The construction uses the imperfect tense in the conditional clause, preceded by the infinitive absolute from the same verb. The idiom “listen to the voice of” implies obedience, not just mental awareness of sound.

² sn Jesus linked himself to the disciples’ message: Responding to the disciples (listens to you) counts as responding to him.

¹ tn Heb “Listen to this word which I am about to take up against you, a funeral song.”

¹ tn Heb “[who] listens to the voice of his servant?” The interrogative is understood by ellipsis (note the preceding line).

² tn Heb “they were not willing in his ways to walk, and they did not listen to his law.”

² tn Or “he who gives heed to a word,” that is, “who listens to instruction” (cf. NIV, NLT).

³ tn Heb “has not listened.” The perfect verb has been chosen to emphasize the past pattern of the scoffer.

¹ tn The imperative שְׁמַע (sh^emaʿ, “Listen!”) forms an urgent exhortation which expects immediate compliance with parental instruction.

¹ tn Heb “[you] mighty ones of strength, doers of his word, by listening to the voice of his word.”

¹ tn Heb “listen to the requests of your servant and your people Israel which they are praying concerning this place.”

² tn Heb “all that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded, and they did not listen and they did not act.”

¹ tn Heb “listen to the request of your servant and your people Israel which they are praying concerning this place.”

¹ tn Heb “And they will listen”; the referent (the elders) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² sn Jesus’ Jewish listeners understood his claim to deity, rejected it, and picked up stones to throw at him for what they considered blasphemy.

¹ tn Grk “you cannot hear,” but this is not a reference to deafness, but rather hearing in the sense of listening to something and responding to it.

³ sn All the people hung on his words is an idiom for intent, eager listening. Jesus’ popularity and support made it unwise for the leadership to seize him.

³ sn The description of Mary sitting at the Lord’s feet and listening to him makes her sound like a disciple (compare Luke 8:35).

¹ tn Grk “with hearing,” a cognate dative that intensifies the action of the main verb “you will listen” (ExSyn 168-69).

¹ tn Heb “But thus says the Lord about.” The words “just listen to what” are supplied in the translation to help show the connection with the preceding.