Psalms 81:9

New Living Translation

You must never have a foreign god; you must not bow down before a false god.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Let there be no strange god among you;And you shall not worship a foreign god.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Let there be no strange god among you; Nor shall you worship any foreign god.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
If thou wylt hearken vnto me, there shall be no straunge God in thee: neither shalt thou geue worship to any other Lorde beside me.

Darby Translation
There shall no strange god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.

New King James Version
There shall be no foreign god among you; Nor shall you worship any foreign god.

Literal Translation
There shall be no strange god among you; and you shall not worship a foreign god.

Easy-to-Read Version
Don't worship any of the false gods that the foreigners worship.

World English Bible
There shall be no strange god in you, Neither shall you worship any foreign god.

King James Version (1611)
There shall no strange God be in thee: neither shalt thou worship any strange God.

King James Version
There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Sela. Heare o my people, for I assure the o Israel, yf thou wilt herken vnto me:

Amplified Bible
"Let there be no strange god among you, Nor shall you worship any foreign god.

American Standard Version
There shall no strange god be in thee; Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.

Bible in Basic English
There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.

Update Bible Version
There shall be no strange god in you; Neither shall you worship any foreign god.

Webster's Bible Translation
There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

New English Translation
There must be no other god among you. You must not worship a foreign god.

Contemporary English Version
Don't worship foreign gods or bow down to gods you know nothing about.

Complete Jewish Bible
"‘Hear, my people, while I give you warning! Isra'el, if you would only listen to me!

Geneva Bible (1587)
Let there bee no strange god in thee, neither worship thou any strange god.

George Lamsa Translation
There shall be no strange god in you; neither shall you worship any strange god.

Hebrew Names Version
There shall be no strange god in you, Neither shall you worship any foreign god.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Hear, O My people, and I will admonish thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto Me!

New Life Bible
Let there be no strange god among you. Do not worship any false god.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
there shall be no new god in thee; neither shalt thou worship a strange god.

English Revised Version
There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

Berean Standard Bible
There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.

New Revised Standard
There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
There shall not be, within thee, a foreign GOD, - Neither shalt thou bow down to a strange GOD:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(80-10) there shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god.

Lexham English Bible
There shall be no strange god among you, and you shall not bow down to a foreign god.

English Standard Version
There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.

New American Standard Bible
"There shall be no strange god among you; Nor shall you worship a foreign god.

New Century Version
You must not have foreign gods; you must not worship any false god.

Good News Translation
You must never worship another god.

Christian Standard Bible®
There must not be a strange god among you; you must not bow down to a foreign god.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Israel, if thou herist me, a fresche God schal not be in thee, and thou schalt not worschipe an alien god.

Young's Literal Translation
There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god.

Revised Standard Version
There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.

Contextual Overview

⁸ "Listen to me, O my people, while I give you stern warnings. O Israel, if you would only listen to me! ⁹ You must never have a foreign god; you must not bow down before a false god. ¹⁰ For it was I, the Lord your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it with good things. ¹¹ "But no, my people wouldn't listen. Israel did not want me around. ¹² So I let them follow their own stubborn desires, living according to their own ideas. ¹³ Oh, that my people would listen to me! Oh, that Israel would follow me, walking in my paths! ¹⁴ How quickly I would then subdue their enemies! How soon my hands would be upon their foes! ¹⁵ Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him; they would be doomed forever. ¹⁶ But I would feed you with the finest wheat. I would satisfy you with wild honey from the rock."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

There shall: Exodus 20:3-5, 1 Corinthians 8:5, 1 Corinthians 8:6

strange: Deuteronomy 6:14, Deuteronomy 32:12, Isaiah 43:12, Malachi 2:11

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 17:13 - testified Ezekiel 20:19 - the Lord Hosea 13:4 - I am

Gill's Notes on the Bible

There shall no strange god be in thee,.... Or in the midst of thee, owned and worshipped as God; or in thine heart, for whatever engrosses the affection, or a man puts his trust and confidence in, that he makes his god, and is a strange one: thus, if any friend or relation, father or mother, wife or children, are loved more than God, they are set up as such in his place; thus the epicure, that seeks the gratification of his carnal lusts, makes his belly his god; and the covetous man his money, in which he trusts, and therefore is called an idolater; and the self-righteous man his righteousness, on which he depends for salvation: hence we read of idols set up in the heart, from which they are disengaged in conversion, and kept from,

Ezekiel 14:7

neither shall thou worship any strange god; only the Lord God is to be worshipped, Matthew 28:19 and there is but one God; though this is to be understood not to the exclusion of the Son and Spirit, who are with the Father the one God, and to be worshipped equally with him, and are; see Matthew 28:19.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There shall no strange god be in thee - Worshipped by thee; or recognized and regarded as a god. This was a condition of his favor and friendship. Compare Deuteronomy 32:12; Isaiah 43:12. The word here rendered “strange” - זר zār - has reference to one of a foreign nation; and the meaning is, that they were not to worship or adore the gods that were worshipped by foreigners. This was a fundamental law of the Hebrew commonwealth.

Neither shalt thou worship any strange god - The Hebrew word here is different - נכר nêkâr - but means substantially the same thing. The allusion is to gods worshipped by foreign nations.