Verse 1

Woe to those who enact unjust decrees and to those who write oppressive laws.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Ve dem som vedtar lover av urett og dem som skriver ned onde lover.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Ve dem som vedtar urettferdige vedtak, og som skriver forordninger som bringer sorg.

• Norsk King James

  Ve dem som fastsetter urettferdige lover og skriver ned alvorlige overtramp;

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Ve dem som vedtar urettferdige lover, og de skriverne som skriver urett.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Ve dem til dem som lager urettferdige lover, og for skrifteknikker som fører urett.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Ve dem som gir ugudelige påbud og skriver opp undertrykkende lover de har foreskrevet.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Ve dem som fastsetter urettferdige lover og nedtegner den grusomhet de har påbudt;

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

  Ve dem som gir ugudelige påbud og skriver opp undertrykkende lover de har foreskrevet.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Ve dem som utsteder urettferdige lover og som skriver undertrykkende vedtak.

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Ve dem til de som stifter urettferdige lover, de som forskriver elendighet som de har skrevet ned.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Vee dem, som beskikke uretfærdige Skikke, og de Skrivere, som skrive Møie,

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Ve over dem som gir urettferdige påbud, og dem som skriver undertrykkende lover som de har foreskrevet;

• KJV1611 - Moderne engelsk

  Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and who write out oppressive laws they have prescribed;

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Ve dem som vedtar urettferdige lover, og de skriverne som skriver ondskap.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Ve dem som uttaler urettferdige påbud, og skriver ordrer om ondskap.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Ve dem som fatter urettferdige vedtak, og skriver ned ondskap;

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Forbannet er de som tar onde avgjørelser, og skriverne som nedtegner deres grusomme gjerninger.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Wo be vnto you yt make vnrightuous lawes, and devyse thinges, which be to harde for to kepe:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Wo vnto them that decree wicked decrees, and write grieuous things,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Wo be vnto them that make vnrighteous lawes, and that causeth their actuaries to wryte greeuousnesse,

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness [which] they have prescribed;

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write perverseness;

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Wo `to' those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness;

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:

• World English Bible (2000)

  Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Beware, those who enact unjust policies, those who are always instituting unfair regulations,

Referenced Verses

• Luke 11:52 : 52 Woe to you experts in the law! You have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves did not enter, and you hindered those who were entering.
• Matt 23:23 : 23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You tithe mint, dill, and cumin but have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy, and faithfulness. These you ought to have done without neglecting the others.
• Luke 11:42-44 : 42 But woe to you Pharisees! For you give a tenth of mint, rue, and every herb, but you neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done without neglecting the others. 43 Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the seats of honor in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces. 44 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like unmarked graves that people walk over without knowing.
• Ps 94:20-21 : 20 Can a corrupt throne be allied with you—one that brings about trouble under the guise of law? 21 They band together against the life of the righteous and condemn innocent blood.
• Isa 5:8 : 8 Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field until there is no room, and you live alone in the midst of the land.
• Mic 3:1-4 : 1 Then I said: "Hear now, leaders of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel: Is it not your responsibility to know justice? 2 You who hate good and love evil; you tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones. 3 You eat the flesh of my people, strip off their skin, break their bones, and chop them up like meat for the pot, like flesh in a cauldron. 4 Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. He will hide His face from them at that time because of the evil they have done.
• Hab 2:6 : 6 Will not all these take up a taunt against him, with mocking sayings and riddles? They will say, "Woe to him who amasses what is not his! How long will this go on? And who weighs himself down with stolen goods?"
• Hab 2:9 : 9 Woe to the one who gains unjust wealth for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of calamity!
• Hab 2:12 : 12 Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town with injustice!
• Hab 2:15 : 15 Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbor, pouring out your wrath and making him drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!
• Hab 2:19 : 19 Woe to him who says to wood, 'Awake!' or to silent stone, 'Arise!' Can it teach? Look, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath at all within it.
• Matt 11:21 : 21 ‘Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.’
• Matt 23:13-16 : 13 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor do you allow those entering to go in. 14 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore, you will receive a greater condemnation. 15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as you are. 16 Woe to you, blind guides! You say, 'If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.'
• Mic 3:9-9 : 9 Hear this, leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, you who despise justice and twist all that is right: 10 You build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for silver. Yet they lean on the LORD, saying, 'Is not the LORD among us? No disaster will come upon us.'
• Mic 6:16 : 16 You have followed the statutes of Omri and all the practices of the house of Ahab; you have walked in their counsels. Therefore, I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of scorn; you will bear the reproach of My people.
• Esth 3:10-13 : 10 So the king removed his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews. 11 The king said to Haman, "The silver is given to you, as well as the people, to do with them as it seems good to you." 12 On the thirteenth day of the first month, the king’s scribes were summoned and an edict was written according to all that Haman commanded. It was addressed to the satraps of the king, to the governors of each province, and to the officials of every people, to each province in its script and to each people in its language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king’s signet ring. 13 Letters were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces, ordering the destruction, killing, and annihilation of all the Jews—young and old, children and women—in a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder their possessions.
• Ps 58:2 : 2 Do you rulers truly speak justice? Do you judge people with fairness?
• Isa 5:18 : 18 Woe to those who drag iniquity with cords of falsehood and sin as if with cart ropes!
• Isa 5:20-22 : 20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness into light and light into darkness, who make bitter sweet and sweet bitter! 21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight! 22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and valiant at mixing strong drink,
• Jer 22:13 : 13 Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice, making his neighbor work for nothing and not paying him for his labor.
• Dan 6:8-9 : 8 All the governors of the kingdom, the prefects, satraps, advisors, and officials have agreed to establish a royal decree and enforce an edict: Anyone who petitions any god or human besides you, O king, for thirty days shall be thrown into the lions' den. 9 Now, O king, issue the decree and put it in writing so that it cannot be altered, in accordance with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed.
• Luke 11:46-47 : 46 Jesus replied, 'Woe to you as well, experts in the law! You load people with burdens that are hard to carry, yet you yourselves do not touch these burdens with even one finger.' 47 Woe to you! For you build tombs for the prophets, yet it was your ancestors who killed them.
• Matt 23:27 : 27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and all impurity.
• Matt 23:29 : 29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous,
• Matt 26:24 : 24 The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would have been better for him if he had not been born."
• John 9:22 : 22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jewish leaders had already decided that anyone who confessed Jesus as the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.
• John 19:6 : 6 When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, "Crucify him! Crucify him!" Pilate responded, "Take him yourselves and crucify him; I find no charge against him."
• Jude 1:11 : 11 Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, rushed headlong for profit into Balaam’s error, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.
• 1 Kgs 21:13 : 13 Two worthless men came and sat opposite Naboth. They testified against him before the people, saying, 'Naboth has cursed God and the king.' So they took him outside the city, stoned him to death, and he died.
• Isa 3:11 : 11 Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; they will be repaid for their deeds.
• Isa 5:11 : 11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning to chase after strong drink, and who continue into the evening, inflamed by wine.