Psalm 34:11
New International Version
Come, my children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

New Living Translation
Come, my children, and listen to me, and I will teach you to fear the LORD.

English Standard Version
Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible
Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

King James Bible
Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

New King James Version
Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

New American Standard Bible
Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

NASB 1995
Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

NASB 1977
Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

Legacy Standard Bible
Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

Amplified Bible
Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you to fear the LORD [with awe-inspired reverence and worship Him with obedience].

Christian Standard Bible
Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

American Standard Version
Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of Jehovah.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Come, children, hear me, and I shall teach you the worship of God.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Come, ye children, hear me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

Contemporary English Version
Come, my children, listen as I teach you to respect the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Come, children, hearken to me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

English Revised Version
Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Come, children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

Good News Translation
Come, my young friends, and listen to me, and I will teach you to honor the LORD.

International Standard Version
Come, children, listen to me, and I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Come, ye children, hearken unto me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

Literal Standard Version
Come, children, listen to me, | I teach you the fear of YHWH.

Majority Standard Bible
Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

New American Bible
Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you fear of the LORD.

NET Bible
Come children! Listen to me! I will teach you what it means to fear the LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

New Heart English Bible
Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

Webster's Bible Translation
Come, ye children, hearken to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

World English Bible
Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

Young's Literal Translation
Come ye, children, hearken to me, The fear of Jehovah I do teach you.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Taste and See that the LORD is Good
10Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing. 11Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD. 12Who is the man who delights in life, who desires to see good days?…

Cross References
Genesis 49:2
Come together and listen, O sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel.

1 Samuel 12:23
As for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you. And I will continue to teach you the good and right way.

Job 33:33
But if not, then listen to me; be quiet, and I will teach you wisdom."

Psalm 32:8
I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will give you counsel and watch over you.

Psalm 66:16
Come and listen, all you who fear God, and I will declare what He has done for me.

Psalm 111:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow His precepts gain rich understanding. His praise endures forever!

Proverbs 4:1
Listen, my sons, to a father's instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.


Treasury of Scripture

Come, you children, listen to me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

Come

Proverbs 4:1
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

Proverbs 7:24
Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 8:17,32
I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me…

I will

Psalm 32:8
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

Psalm 111:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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Psalm 34
1. David praises God, and exhorts others thereto by his experience
8. They are blessed who trust in God
11. He exhorts to the fear of God
15. The privileges of the righteous














(11) Come, ye children . . .--A common proverbial style. See Proverbs 1:8, and passim. (Comp. also 1John 2:1, &c)

Verses 11-22. - The second, didactic, part of the psalm here begins. The writer assumes the role of the teacher, and, addressing his readers as "sons," undertakes to "teach them the fear of the Lord" (ver, 11), or, in other words, to point out to them in what true religion consists. This he does in two remarkable verses (vers. 13, 14); after which he proceeds, in the remainder of the psalm, to give reasons which may incline them to the practice of it (vers. 15-22). The reasons resolve themselves into two main grounds - the tender love and care of God for the righteous (vers. 15, 17-20, 22), and his hostility to and punishment of the wicked (vers. 16, 21). Verse 11. - Come, ye children, hearken unto me (comp. Proverbs 4:1; Proverbs 8:32; 1 John 2:1, 18; 1 John 3:18; 1 John 4:4, etc.). I will teach you the fear of the Lord; i.e. I will teach you the nature of true religion. Note the absence from what follows of any merely legal requirements, and the simple insist-ance on right moral conduct (vers. 13, 14).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Come,
לְֽכוּ־ (lə·ḵū-)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

children,
בָ֭נִים (ḇā·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1121: A son

listen to me;
שִׁמְעוּ־ (šim·‘ū-)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

I will teach
אֲלַמֶּדְכֶֽם׃ (’ă·lam·meḏ·ḵem)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect Cohortative if contextual - first person common singular | second person masculine plural
Strong's 3925: To exercise in, learn

you the fear
יִֽרְאַ֥ת (yir·’aṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 3374: Fear, reverence

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


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