World English Bible
"But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, "No; but we will have a king over us,"
— 1 Samuel 8:19, World English Bible
“Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;”
“But the people refused to hearken unto the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay: but we will have a king over us, ”
“But the people refused to heed Samuel’s warning. Instead they said,“No! There will be a king over us!”
“But the people would not hear the voice of Samuel, and they said, Nay: but there shall be a king over us,”
“But the people gave no attention to the voice of Samuel; and they said, No, but we will have a king over us,”
“Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;”
He will take your male servants, and your female servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his servants.
You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day."
But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, "No; but we will have a king over us,
that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles."
Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh.
Yahweh said to Samuel, "Listen to their voice, and make them a king." Samuel said to the men of Israel, "Every man go to his city."