Verse 15

The LORD will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they made Asherah poles, angering the LORD.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  «Herren vil slå Israel slik at de svaier som et rør i vannet. Han vil rive Israel opp fra det gode landet som han ga deres fedre, og spre dem på den andre siden av elven, fordi de har laget Asjera-pæler og provosert Herren til vrede.»

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  For Herren skal slå Israel som et siv beveger seg i vannet, og han skal rive Israel opp fra denne gode jorden som han ga deres fedre, og spre dem bortom elven, fordi de har gjort sine lunder, for å vekke Herren til vrede.

• Norsk King James

  For Herren skal slå Israel som et rør i vannet, og han skal rive Israel ut av dette gode landet, som han ga til deres fedre, og spre dem over elven, fordi de har laget sine hellige hager, og provosert Herren til vrede.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Herren skal slå Israel, som et siv blir beveget i vannet, og han skal rykke opp Israel fra dette gode land som han ga deres fedre, og spre dem bortom elven, fordi de laget seg hellige lunder og provoserte Herren.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Herren vil slå Israel så det vakler som et rør i vannet. Han vil rykke bort Israel fra dette gode landet som han ga deres fedre, og spre dem bortom elven, fordi de laget asjera-planker og krenket Herren.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  For Herren skal slå Israel som en sivstang bøyes i vannet. Han skal rykke Israel opp fra dette gode landet som han ga deres fedre, og spre dem videre over elven på grunn av de lundene de lagde, slik at de vekker Herrens vrede.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  For Herren vil slå Israel, som et sivrør som røres i vann, og han vil rive opp Israel fra dette gode land, som han ga til deres fedre, og spre dem utover elven, fordi de har laget sine æser og provosert Herren til sinne.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  For Herren skal slå Israel som en sivstang bøyes i vannet. Han skal rykke Israel opp fra dette gode landet som han ga deres fedre, og spre dem videre over elven på grunn av de lundene de lagde, slik at de vekker Herrens vrede.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Herren skal slå Israel slik som en siv rystes i vannet. Han skal rykke Israel opp fra dette gode landet som han ga deres fedre, og spre dem bortenfor elven, fordi de gjorde sine Asjeraer og provoserte Herren til vrede.

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  'Herren skal slå Israel slik at de skal vakle som et rør i vannet. Han skal rykke Israel opp fra dette gode landet som han ga deres fedre, og spre dem på den andre siden av elven, fordi de har laget seg Asjera-pæler og utfordret Herrens harme.'

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Og Herren skal slaae Israel, ligesom Røret røres i Vandet, og oprykke Israel af dette gode Land, som han gav deres Fædre, og bortstrøe dem paa hiin Side Floden, fordi at de gjorde deres Lunde og opirrede Herren.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  For Herren vil slå Israel som et siv blir ristet i vannet, og han skal rykke opp Israel fra dette gode landet som han ga til deres fedre, og spre dem hinsides elven, fordi de har laget seg hellige lunder og opprørt Herren til vrede.

• KJV1611 - Moderne engelsk

  For the LORD shall strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall uproot Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  For Herren vil slå Israel som et siv blir ristet i vannet; og han vil rykke opp Israel fra dette gode landet som han ga deres fedre, og spre dem bortenfor elven, fordi de har laget seg aserastolper og provosert Herren til vrede.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Herren vil slå Israel som et siv rystes i vann, og han vil rykke opp Israel fra dette gode landet som han ga deres fedre, og spre dem bortenfor elven, fordi de har laget seg avguder, som har vekket Herrens vrede.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  For Herren vil slå Israel som et siv blir rystet i vannet, og han vil røske Israel opp fra dette gode landet som han ga deres fedre, og spre dem bortenfor elven, fordi de har laget sine Ashera-pæler og vekket Herrens vrede.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Og nå har Herrens hånd rammet Israel, rystet det som siv i vannet; og han vil ryke opp Israel fra dette gode landet som han ga deres fedre, og spre dem utover elven; fordi de har laget seg bilder, som vekker Herrens vrede.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And the LORDE shal smyte Israel, like as a rede is moued in the water: & shal rote out Israel from this good londe, that he gaue vnto their fathers, & shal scater them beyonde the water, because they haue made their groues to prouoke the LORDE vnto wrath.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For the Lorde shall smite Israel, as when a reede is shaken in the water, and hee shall weede Israel out of his good lad, which he gaue to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the Riuer, because they haue made them groues, prouoking the Lord to anger.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For the Lorde shall smyte Israel as when a reede is shaken in the water, & he shall weede Israel out of this good lande which he gaue to their fathers, & shall scatter them beyond the ryuer, because they haue made them groues, and angred the Lorde.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking Yahweh to anger.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And Jehovah hath smitten Israel as the reed is moved by the waters, and hath plucked Israel from off this good ground that He gave to their fathers, and scattered them beyond the River, because that they made their shrines, provoking Jehovah to anger;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For Jehovah will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking Jehovah to anger.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And even now the hand of the Lord has come down on Israel, shaking it like a river-grass in the water; and, uprooting Israel from this good land, which he gave to their fathers, he will send them this way and that on the other side of the River; because they have made for themselves images, moving the Lord to wrath.

• World English Bible (2000)

  For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking Yahweh to anger.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  The LORD will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they angered the LORD by making Asherah poles.

Referenced Verses

• Josh 23:15-16 : 15 But just as all the good things the LORD your God promised you have come to pass, so too the LORD will bring upon you the bad things He threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land that the LORD your God has given you. 16 If you violate the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from the good land He has given you.
• 2 Kgs 15:29 : 29 In the days of Pekah, king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assyria, came and captured Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, Galilee, and all the land of Naphtali. He took the people into exile to Assyria.
• Ps 52:5 : 5 You love evil more than good, and falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah.
• Prov 2:22 : 22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be uprooted from it.
• Exod 34:13-14 : 13 Instead, you must destroy their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles. 14 For you must not worship any other god, because the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
• Deut 12:3-4 : 3 Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn their Asherah poles with fire, cut down their carved idols, and obliterate the names of their gods from those places. 4 Do not worship the Lord your God in the same way that they worship their gods.
• Deut 28:36 : 36 The LORD will drive you and the king you set over yourself to a nation that neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you will serve other gods made of wood and stone.
• Deut 28:63-68 : 63 Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so it will please Him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess. 64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known. 65 Among those nations, you will find no peace, and no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you an anxious heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul. 66 Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be filled with fear night and day, and you will not be sure of your life. 67 In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’ because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights your eyes will see. 68 The LORD will bring you back to Egypt in ships, in the way I said you would never see again. There, you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.
• Deut 29:24-28 : 24 And they will answer, 'It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt. 25 They turned to other gods and worshiped and bowed down to them, gods they did not know and gods the LORD had not given to them.' 26 Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against this land, bringing upon it every curse written in this book. 27 In His anger and great wrath, the LORD uprooted them from their land and cast them into another land, as it is today. 28 The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.
• Lev 26:32-34 : 32 I will bring the land to desolation so that even your enemies who live there will be appalled by it. 33 I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you. Your land will be desolate and your cities will lie in ruins. 34 Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in the land of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
• Lev 26:43 : 43 For the land will be abandoned by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; they will accept their punishment for their iniquity, because they rejected my judgments and their soul abhorred my statutes.
• Deut 4:26-27 : 26 I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will surely be quickly destroyed from the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not extend your days there but will be utterly destroyed. 27 The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will lead you.
• 2 Kgs 17:6-7 : 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the Israelites to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor River, and in the cities of Media. 7 This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods.
• 2 Kgs 17:23 : 23 Finally, the Lord removed Israel from His presence as He had declared through all His servants the prophets. So the Israelites were exiled from their own land to Assyria, and they remain there to this day.
• 2 Kgs 18:11-12 : 11 The king of Assyria carried Israel into exile to Assyria, and he settled them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. 12 This happened because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God but violated His covenant—all that Moses, the servant of the LORD, had commanded. They neither listened nor carried it out.
• 1 Sam 12:25 : 25 But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away.
• 1 Kgs 14:9 : 9 You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have gone and made other gods and cast images to provoke Me to anger, and you have turned your back on Me.
• 1 Kgs 14:23-24 : 23 They also built for themselves high places, sacred stones, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree. 24 There were even male cult prostitutes in the land. They committed all the detestable practices of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
• Isa 1:28-29 : 28 But rebels and sinners will be destroyed together, and those who forsake the LORD will perish. 29 You will be ashamed because of the terebinths that you desired, and you will blush because of the gardens you have chosen.
• Amos 2:9 : 9 'Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorites before them, whose height was like the cedars and whose strength was like the oaks. I destroyed their fruit above and their roots below.'
• Amos 5:27 : 27 Therefore, I will send you into exile beyond Damascus, says the Lord, the God of Hosts is his name.
• Zeph 2:4 : 4 For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon will become a ruin. At noon Ashdod will be driven out, and Ekron will be uprooted.
• Matt 11:7 : 7 As they were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swayed by the wind?
• Matt 15:13 : 13 He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.
• Luke 7:24 : 24 After John's messengers left, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: 'What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swayed by the wind?'
• Acts 7:43 : 43 'You have taken up the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the images you made to worship. Therefore, I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.'