1 Samuel 15:14
Good News Translation
Samuel asked, "Why, then, do I hear cattle mooing and sheep bleating?"

New Revised Standard Version
But Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of sheep in my ears, and the lowing of cattle that I hear?”

Contemporary English Version
"Then why," Samuel asked, "do I hear sheep and cattle?"

New American Bible
But Samuel asked, “What, then, is this bleating of sheep that comes to my ears, the lowing of oxen that I hear?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Samuel said: What meaneth then this bleating of the flocks, which soundeth in my ears, and the lowing of the herds, which I hear?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Samuel said: What meaneth then this bleating of the flocks, which soundeth in my ears, and the lowing of the herds, which I hear?

What meaneth

Psalm 36:2 For in his sight he hath done deceitfully, that his iniquity may be found unto hatred.

Psalm 50:16-21 But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth? . . .

Jeremiah 2:18,19,22,23,34-37 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the troubled water? And what hast thou to do with the way of the Assyrians, to drink the water of the river? . . .

Malachi 3:13-15 Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the Lord. . . .

Luke 19:22 He saith to him: Out of thy own mouth I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up what I laid not down and reaping that which I did not sow.

Romans 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be made subject to God.

1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore, judge not before the time: until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise from God.

Context
Samuel Denounces Saul
13And when Samuel was come to Saul, Saul said to him: Blessed be thou of the Lord, I have fulfilled the word of the Lord. 14And Samuel said: What meaneth then this bleating of the flocks, which soundeth in my ears, and the lowing of the herds, which I hear?15And Saul said: They have brought them from Amalec: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the herds, that they might be sacrificed to the Lord thy God, but the rest we have slain.…
Cross References
Exodus 32:21
And he said to Aaron: What has this people done to thee, that thou shouldst bring upon them a most heinous sin?

1 Samuel 15:15
And Saul said: They have brought them from Amalec: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the herds, that they might be sacrificed to the Lord thy God, but the rest we have slain.

1 Samuel 15:13
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