KJV:
For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
NASB:
For the LORD will not abandon His people, Nor will He forsake His inheritance.
KJV:
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
NASB:
Hear, my son, your father's instruction And do not forsake your mother's teaching;
KJV:
My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
NASB:
My son, observe the commandment of your father And do not forsake the teaching of your mother;
KJV:
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
NASB:
The beginning of strife is like letting out water, So abandon the quarrel before it breaks out.
KJV:
Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
NASB:
For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with influences from the east, And they are soothsayers like the Philistines, And they strike bargains with the children of foreigners.
KJV:
For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
NASB:
For the fields of Heshbon have withered, the vines of Sibmah as well; The lords of the nations have trampled down its choice clusters Which reached as far as Jazer and wandered to the deserts; Its tendrils spread themselves out and passed over the sea.
KJV:
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
NASB:
For they have fled from the swords, From the drawn sword, and from the bent bow And from the press of battle.
KJV:
Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
NASB:
Because the palace has been abandoned, the populated city forsaken. Hill and watch-tower have become caves forever, A delight for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks;
KJV:
Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
NASB:
Your tackle hangs slack; It cannot hold the base of its mast firmly, Nor spread out the sail. Then the prey of an abundant spoil will be divided; The lame will take the plunder.
KJV:
Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
NASB:
Cut off your hair and cast it away, And take up a lamentation on the bare heights; For the LORD has rejected and forsaken The generation of His wrath.'