1 Samuel 8:18
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
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.”
In context
16 And he will take your menservants and maidservants and your best cattle and donkeys and put them to his own use.
17 He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.
18 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.”
19 Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We must have a king over us.
20 Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles.”
1 Samuel 8:18 in every translation
- BSB 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.”
- KJV King James Version
- 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.
- WEB World English Bible
- You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and the LORD will not answer you in that day.”
- ASV 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.
- YLT 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.'
- DBY Darby Translation
- And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye have chosen; and Jehovah will not answer you in that day.
- WBS Webster Bible
- 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.