Verse 4

Woe to a sinful nation, a people loaded down with guilt, offspring of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have abandoned the LORD, spurned the Holy One of Israel, and turned their backs on Him.

Other Translations

  • GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

    Ve, syndig nasjon, folk tynget av skyld, avkom av onde gjørere, barn som ødelegger! De har forlatt Herren, har hånet Israels Hellige, de har vendt seg bort og gått sin vei.

  • Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

    Å, syndige nasjon, folk tynget av misgjerning, avkom av onde gjørere, barn som er korrumperte! De har forlatt Herren, de har vekket Israels Hellige til vrede, de har vendt seg bort.

  • Norsk King James

    Å, syndig nasjon, et folk fullt av urett, en slekt av ondgjørere, korrupte barn: de har sviktet Herren, de har provosert Israels Hellig til vrede, de har vendt seg bort.

  • Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

    Ve det syndige folket, folket med tung synd, de ondes avkom, de korrupte barn! De har forlatt Herren, de har hisset opp Israels Hellige, de har vendt seg bort.

  • Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

    Ve, syndig nasjon, folk tynget av urett, avkom av onde, barn som er korrupte! De har forlatt Herren, foraktet Israels Hellige, vendt seg bort.

  • Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

    Ve deg, syndige nasjon, et folk full av ondskap, et avkom av ugjerningsmenn, barn som er ødeleggere! De har forlatt Herren, de har gjort Israels Hellige vred, de har vendt seg bakover.

  • o3-mini KJV Norsk

    U, syndig nasjon, et folk tynget av urett, en ætt av ugudelige, barn som sprer ødeleggelse; de har forlatt Herren, de har vekket Israels Hellige til vrede, og de har vendt seg bort.

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

    Ve deg, syndige nasjon, et folk full av ondskap, et avkom av ugjerningsmenn, barn som er ødeleggere! De har forlatt Herren, de har gjort Israels Hellige vred, de har vendt seg bakover.

  • Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

    Ve deg, syndige folk, et folk tungt med misgjerning, ondskapens avkom, sønner som handler ondt! De har forlatt Herren, de har foraktet Israels Hellige, og vendt seg bort.

  • GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

    Ve, syndig nasjon, et folk besudlet av urett, en avkom av onde gjørere, barn som ødelegger! De har forlatt Herren, foraktet Israels Hellige, vendt seg bort.

  • Original Norsk Bibel 1866

    Vee et syndigt Folk, et Folk med svar Misgjerning, de Ondes Sæd, de fordærvelige Børn! de forlode Herren, de opirrede den Hellige i Israel, de vege tilbage.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

  • KJV 1769 norsk

    Ve, syndige nasjon, et folk tynget av misgjerning, avkom av ugjerningsmenn, barn som ødelegger! De har forlatt Herren, de har gjort den Hellige i Israel vred, de har vendt seg bort.

  • KJV1611 - Moderne engelsk

    Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they have gone away backward.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Webster

    Ve deg, syndige nasjon, et folk fylt med misgjerning, en avkom av onde gjørere, barn som handler korrupte! De har forlatt Herren. De har foraktet Israels Hellige. De er fremmede og frafalne.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

    Å, syndige folk, et folk belagt med misgjerning, en avkom av ugjerningsmenn, sønner som er fordervet! De har forlatt Herren, de har foraktet Israels Hellige, de har vendt seg bort bakover.

  • Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

    Ve, syndige nasjon, et folk fylt med skyld, en slekt av onde gjørere, barn som handler ondt! De har forlatt Herren, foraktet Israels Hellige, de har vendt seg bort og gått baklengs.

  • Norsk oversettelse av BBE

    Å nasjon fylt av synd, et folk nedtynget av kriminalitet, en generasjon av onde gjørere, falske barn: de har vendt seg bort fra Herren, de har ingen respekt for Israels Hellige, deres hjerter har vendt seg bort fra ham.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Alas for this synful people, which are experte in blasphemies, a frawerde generacion, vnnatural children. They haue forsaken the LORDE, they haue prouoked the holy one of Israel vnto anger, and are gone bacward.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Ah, sinfull nation, a people laden with iniquitie: a seede of the wicked, corrupt children: they haue forsaken the Lord: they haue prouoked the holy one of Israel to anger: they are gone backewarde.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Ah sinnefull nation, a people laden with iniquitie, a seede of the wicked, corrupt children: they haue forsaken the Lorde, they haue prouoked the holy one of Israel vnto anger, they are gone backwarde.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Ah sinful nation, A people loaded with iniquity, A seed of evil-doers, Children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Ah, sinning nation, a people heavy `with' iniquity, A seed of evil doers, sons -- corrupters! They have forsaken Jehovah, They have despised the Holy One of Israel, They have gone away backward.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly! they have forsaken Jehovah, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged [and gone] backward.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Beware sinful nation, the people weighed down by evil deeds. They are offspring who do wrong, children who do wicked things. They have abandoned the LORD, and rejected the Holy One of Israel. They are alienated from him.

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 5:24 : 24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble and as dry grass sinks in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.
  • Jer 2:13 : 13 For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
  • Jer 2:17 : 17 Have you not brought this upon yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when he led you in the way?
  • Jer 7:19 : 19 Is it me they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves, to their own shame?
  • Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, 'You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
  • Isa 5:19 : 19 To those who say, 'Let God hurry and work quickly so we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so we may know it!'
  • Matt 11:28 : 28 Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
  • Matt 23:33 : 33 You serpents, you brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to hell?
  • Acts 7:51-52 : 51 You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors did. 52 Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have betrayed and murdered him—
  • Rom 8:7 : 7 Because the mindset of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.
  • 1 Cor 10:22 : 22 Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He is?
  • Col 1:24 : 24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of His body, which is the church.
  • Jer 7:26 : 26 But they did not listen to me or incline their ear; instead, they stiffened their necks and did worse than their ancestors.
  • Jer 16:11-12 : 11 Then you are to answer them: 'It is because your ancestors abandoned Me,' declares the LORD, 'and followed other gods, served them, and worshiped them. But they abandoned Me and did not keep My law. 12 And you have behaved even more wickedly than your ancestors, each one following the stubbornness of their own evil heart instead of listening to Me.
  • Jer 50:29 : 29 Summon archers against Babylon, all who draw the bow. Encamp around her on every side, and let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
  • Jer 51:5 : 5 For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the Lord of Hosts, though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
  • Ezek 16:33 : 33 All prostitutes receive gifts, but you give gifts to all your lovers. You bribe them to come to you from all around for your acts of prostitution.
  • Jer 2:19 : 19 Your own wickedness will discipline you; your backslidings will rebuke you. Consider and see how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of me,” declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty.
  • Jer 2:31 : 31 You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: ‘Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of deep darkness? Why do my people say, “We are free to roam; we will come to you no more”?’
  • Jer 2:33 : 33 How skilled you are at pursuing love! Even the worst of women you have taught your ways.
  • Isa 10:6 : 6 I send him against a godless nation; I dispatch him against a people at My wrath, to seize plunder, to take spoil, and to trample them down like mud in the streets.
  • Isa 12:6 : 6 Shout aloud and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 14:20 : 20 You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land and slain your people. The offspring of evildoers will never be remembered.
  • Isa 29:19 : 19 The humble will rejoice in the LORD, and the needy among mankind will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 30:9 : 9 These are a rebellious people, deceitful children, unwilling to listen to the LORD's instruction.
  • Isa 30:11-12 : 11 'Leave the way, turn aside from the path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!' 12 Therefore, this is what the Holy One of Israel says: 'Because you have rejected this message and relied on oppression and deceit, leaning on them for support—'
  • Isa 30:15 : 15 For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: 'In repentance and rest you will be saved; in quietness and trust is your strength. But you were not willing.'
  • Isa 37:23 : 23 Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
  • Isa 41:14 : 14 Do not be afraid, you worm Jacob, little Israel. I myself will help you, declares the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 41:16 : 16 You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the Lord and glory in the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 41:20 : 20 so that people may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the Lord has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it.
  • Isa 57:3-4 : 3 But as for you, come here, you offspring of sorceresses, you children of adulterers and prostitutes! 4 Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open wide your mouth and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of rebellion, offspring of deceit?
  • Isa 65:3 : 3 These people continually provoke me to my face, offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on bricks.
  • Jer 2:5 : 5 This is what the LORD says: ‘What fault did your ancestors find in me that they strayed so far from me? They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves.
  • Gen 13:13 : 13 Now the men of Sodom were wicked and great sinners against the LORD.
  • Num 32:14 : 14 "Now you have risen in place of your ancestors, a brood of sinful men, to increase still further the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel.
  • Deut 29:25 : 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.'
  • Deut 31:16 : 16 The LORD said to Moses, 'Behold, you are going to rest with your ancestors, and this people will rise up and prostitute themselves to the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake me and break the covenant I made with them.'
  • Deut 32:19 : 19 The LORD saw this and despised them out of His anger at His sons and daughters.
  • Judg 10:10 : 10 Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, saying, 'We have sinned against You, for we have abandoned our God and served the Baals.'
  • Ps 58:3 : 3 No, in your hearts you devise injustice; your hands mete out violence on the earth.
  • Ps 78:8 : 8 They would not be like their ancestors—a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal, whose spirits were not faithful to God.
  • Ps 78:40 : 40 How often they provoked Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the wasteland!
  • Ps 89:18 : 18 For you are the glory of their strength, and by your favor, our horn is exalted.
  • Isa 1:23 : 23 Your rulers are rebellious and companions of thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the fatherless, and the widow's case never comes before them.
  • Isa 3:8 : 8 For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and actions are against the LORD, challenging His glorious presence.
  • Rev 18:5 : 5 For her sins have piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her injustices.