So you testify that you approve of what your ancestors did; they killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.
NIV
So you bear witness and give your full approval and consent to the deeds of your fathers; for they actually killed them, and you rebuild and repair monuments to them.
AMP
Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
KJV
You have shriveled me up – and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.
NIV
You have laid firm hold on me and have shriveled me up, which is a witness against me; and my leanness [and wretched state of body] are further evidence [against me]; [they] testify to my face.
AMP
And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
KJV
He said to them, "Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law."
NIV
He said to them, Set your [minds and] hearts on all the words which I command you this day, that you may command them to your children, that they may be watchful to do all the words of this law.
AMP
And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
KJV
See, I have made him a witness to the peoples, a ruler and commander of the peoples.
NIV
Behold, I have appointed him (Him) [David, as a representative of the Messiah, or the Messiah Himself] to be a witness [one (One) who shall testify of salvation] to the nations, a prince (Prince) and commander (Commander) to the peoples.
AMP
Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.
KJV
The accomplices of thieves are their own enemies; they are put under oath and dare not testify.
NIV
Whoever is partner with a thief hates his own life; he falls under the curse [pronounced upon him who knows who the thief is] but discloses nothing.
AMP
Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.
KJV
Our kings, our leaders, our priests and our ancestors did not follow your law; they did not pay attention to your commands or the statutes you warned them to keep.
NIV
Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept Your law or hearkened to Your commandments and Your warnings and reproofs which You gave them.
AMP
Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.
KJV
