1 Samuel 8:18
New International Version
When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, but the LORD will not answer you in that day.”

New Living Translation
When that day comes, you will beg for relief from this king you are demanding, but then the LORD will not help you.”

English Standard Version
And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day.”

Berean Standard Bible
When that day comes, you will beg for relief from the king you have chosen, but the LORD will not answer you on that day.”

King James Bible
And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.

New King James Version
And you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the LORD will not hear you in that day.”

New American Standard Bible
Then you will cry out on that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you on that day.”

NASB 1995
“Then you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day.”

NASB 1977
“Then you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day.”

Legacy Standard Bible
Then you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”

Amplified Bible
Then you will cry out on that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you on that day [because you have rejected Him as King].”

Christian Standard Bible
When that day comes, you will cry out because of the king you’ve chosen for yourselves, but the LORD won’t answer you on that day.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When that day comes, you will cry out because of the king you’ve chosen for yourselves, but the LORD won’t answer you on that day.”

American Standard Version
And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye shall have chosen you; and Jehovah will not answer you in that day.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And you will wail on that day from before your King, whom you have chosen for yourselves, and LORD JEHOVAH shall not answer you in that day!”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye have chosen to yourselves, and the Lord shall not hear you in those days, because ye have chosen to yourselves a king.

Contemporary English Version
and you will finally cry out for the LORD to save you from the king you wanted. But the LORD won't answer your prayers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you shall cry out in that day from the face of the king, whom you have chosen to yourselves. and the Lord will not hear you in that day, because you desired unto yourselves a king.

English Revised Version
And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not answer you in that day.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"When that day comes, you will cry out because of the king whom you have chosen for yourselves. The LORD will not answer you when that day comes."

Good News Translation
When that time comes, you will complain bitterly because of your king, whom you yourselves chose, but the LORD will not listen to your complaints."

International Standard Version
When all of this comes about, you will cry out because of your king whom you chose for yourselves, but the LORD won't answer you at that time."

JPS Tanakh 1917
And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not answer you in that day.'

Literal Standard Version
And you have cried out in that day because of the king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and YHWH does not answer you in that day.”

Majority Standard Bible
When that day comes, you will beg for relief from the king you have chosen, but the LORD will not answer you on that day.”

New American Bible
On that day you will cry out because of the king whom you have chosen, but the LORD will not answer you on that day.”

NET Bible
In that day you will cry out because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD won't answer you in that day."

New Revised Standard Version
And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves; but the LORD will not answer you in that day.”

New Heart English Bible
You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen for yourselves, and the LORD will not answer you in that day."

Webster's Bible Translation
And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen for yourselves; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.

World English Bible
You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”

Young's Literal Translation
And ye have cried out in that day because of the king whom ye have chosen for yourselves, and Jehovah doth not answer you in that day.'

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Context
Samuel's Warning
17He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. 18When that day comes, you will beg for relief from the king you have chosen, but the LORD will not answer you on that day.”

Cross References
1 Samuel 8:17
He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.

Proverbs 1:25
because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,

Proverbs 1:28
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.

Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

Isaiah 8:21
They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.

Micah 3:4
Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.


Treasury of Scripture

And you shall cry out in that day because of your king which you shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.

cry out

Isaiah 8:21
And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

and the Lord

1 Samuel 8:13
And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

will not hear

Job 27:9
Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?

Psalm 18:41
They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

Proverbs 1:25-28
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: …

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1 Samuel 8
1. By occasion of the ill government of Samuel's sons, the Israelites ask a king
6. Samuel praying in grief is comforted by God
10. He tells the manner of a king
19. God wills Samuel to yield unto the importunity of the people














(18) The Lord will not hear you in that day.--After the separation of the north and the south, when King Solomon was dead, a large proportion of the northern sovereigns--or kings, as they were called, of "Israel," in distinction to the southern monarchs, the kings of "Judah"--fulfilled in their lives and government of the realm the dark forebodings of the seer. The northern tribes broke with all the hallowed associations connected with the Ark and temple, and set up a rival and semi-idolatrous religion in some of their own popular centres. There no holy influences swayed the councils of their despotic kings. The lives of the Israelites who still loved the law of the Lord, and cherished the glorious memories of their fathers, must have been very bitter and hard when men like Omri and Ahab reigned with all their cruel power in Tirzah and Samaria.

But no prayers then availed; one wicked dynasty succeeded another, until the cup of iniquity was filled, and Israel carried away captive for ever out of their fair land.

Verse 18. - Ye shall cry. In despair at this cruel oppression ye shall appeal to Jehovah, but in vain. The king was given them at their own request, persisted in even after warning, and they must abide by their choice. It is worth noting that in the northern kingdom a majority of the kings more or less fulfilled Samuel's evil forebodings, and there they were much more completely the product of the temper condemned by the prophet than they were in Judah. The ten tribes roughly snapped the tie which bound them to Jehovah; they discarded the ark and all the services of the sanctuary, and were content with so poor an imitation of them that all piously disposed men were compelled to abandon their lands and migrate into Judaea (2 Chronicles 11:16); and so the majority of their kings, not being held in check by religious influences, were tyrants. At Jerusalem, on the contrary, most of them were content to remain within the limits of the Mosaic law, and were upon the whole a series of men far superior, not merely to the judges and the monarchs in old time, but to any European dynasty.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
When that
הַה֔וּא (ha·hū)
Article | Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

day comes,
בַּיּ֣וֹם (bay·yō·wm)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

you will beg
וּזְעַקְתֶּם֙ (ū·zə·‘aq·tem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 2199: To shriek, to announce, convene publicly

for relief from
מִלִּפְנֵ֣י (mil·lip̄·nê)
Preposition-m, Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 6440: The face

the king
מַלְכְּכֶ֔ם (mal·kə·ḵem)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 4428: A king

you have chosen,
בְּחַרְתֶּ֖ם (bə·ḥar·tem)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 977: To try, select

but the LORD
יְהוָ֛ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

will not
וְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

answer you
יַעֲנֶ֧ה (ya·‘ă·neh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6030: To answer, respond

on that
הַהֽוּא׃ (ha·hū)
Article | Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

day.”
בַּיּ֥וֹם (bay·yō·wm)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day


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