Verse 13

The nations roar like the crashing of mighty waters, but He rebukes them, and they flee far away. They are driven like chaff on the mountains before the wind, like tumbleweed before a storm.

Other Translations

  • GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

    Folkeslagene skal bruse som store vann, men når Gud truer dem, skal de flykte langt unna. De skal bli jagd bort som agner på fjellene av vinden og som tistler for stormen.

  • Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

    Nasjonene skal bruse som brusing av mange vann: men Gud skal skjelle dem ut, og de skal flykte langt bort, og bli jaget som fjellene støv for vinden, og som et hjul foran stormen.

  • Norsk King James

    Nasjonene skal strømme som strømmene av mange vann; men Gud skal irettesette dem, og de skal fly langt bort, og bli jaget som agn av fjellene for vinden, og som en rullende ting.

  • Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

    Folkene vil buldre som store vannfall, men Herren skal true dem så de flykter langt bort, og de drives som agner på fjellene for vinden, som en virvel i stormen.

  • Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

    Folkeslagene skal bruse som bruset av mange vann. Men når Herren truer dem, flykter de langt bort, de blir jaget som agner for vinden på fjellene, som virvler for stormen.

  • Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

    Nasjonene skal strømme som de mange vannenes strøm: men Gud skal irettesette dem, og de skal flykte langt bort, og bli jaget som agner fra fjellene foran vinden, og som en rullende ting foran stormvinden.

  • o3-mini KJV Norsk

    Nasjonene skal styrte frem som mange vannstrømmer, men Gud vil irettesette dem. De skal flykte langt borte, jages som pedd fra fjellene for vinden og som noe rullende foran en virvelvind.

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

    Nasjonene skal strømme som de mange vannenes strøm: men Gud skal irettesette dem, og de skal flykte langt bort, og bli jaget som agner fra fjellene foran vinden, og som en rullende ting foran stormvinden.

  • Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

    Folkeslagene skal tordne som bruset av mange vann, men Gud skal refse dem, og de skal flykte langt bort, og jages bort som agner på fjellene for vinden, og som virvlende støv for stormen.

  • GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

    Folkeslagene bruser som bruset fra store vann, men når Gud truer dem, flyr de langt bort. De drives bort som agner på fjellene for vinden, og som tistler for stormen.

  • Original Norsk Bibel 1866

    Folkene skulle (vel) buldre som store Vandes Bulder, men han skal true ham, saa han skal flye langt bort; og han skal forfølges som Avner paa Bjergene for Veiret, og som en Hvirvel for Hvirvelvind.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

  • KJV 1769 norsk

    Nasjonene skal ruse som bruset fra mange vannmasser, men Gud skal irettesette dem, og de skal flykte langt av sted, og bli jaget som agner på fjellene for vinden, og som en virvlende ting før stormen.

  • KJV1611 - Moderne engelsk

    The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far away, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Webster

    Nasjonene skal storme som mange vanners brusing: men han skal irettesette dem, og de skal flykte langt bort, og bli jaget bort som agner på fjellene for vinden, og som virvlende støv for stormen.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

    Nasjoner buldrer som mektige vann, men Han truer dem, og de flykter langt bort, og jages som agner på fjellene for vinden, som hvirvlende løv for stormen.

  • Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

    Nasjonene skal bruse som mange vannströms brøl: men han skal irettesette dem, og de skal flykte langt bort, jaget som agner for vinden på fjellet, og som støv for stormen.

  • Norsk oversettelse av BBE

    Men han vil stanse dem, og få dem til å flykte langt bort, drevet som agner på fjelltoppene for vinden, og som sirkulerende støv for stormen.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    For though so many people increase as the flowinge waters, and though they be armed, yet they fle farre of, and vanish awaye like the dust with the wynde vpon an hill, and as the whyrle wynde thorow a storme.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    The people shall make a sounde like the noise of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee farre off, and shalbe chased as the chaffe of the mountaines before the winde, and as a rolling thing before the whirlewinde.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Euen lyke many waters shal the people rage, God shall rebuke hym, and he shal flee farre of, he shalbe chased away lyke as drye strawe vpon the mountaynes before the wynde, and lyke a thyng that turneth before the storme.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but [God] shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves, when he shouts at them, they will flee to a distant land, driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills, or like dead thistles before a strong gale.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 9:5 : 5 For you have upheld my cause, my right; you sit on your throne judging righteously.
  • Isa 41:15-16 : 15 See, I will make you into a sharp threshing sledge, new and covered with many blades. You will thresh the mountains and crush them and reduce the hills to chaff. 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.
  • Job 21:18 : 18 They are like straw before the wind and like chaff carried away by a storm.
  • Ps 1:4 : 4 Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind drives away.
  • Isa 29:5 : 5 But the horde of your enemies will be like fine dust, and the horde of the ruthless ones will be like blowing chaff. Suddenly, in an instant,
  • Isa 30:30-33 : 30 The LORD will cause his majestic voice to be heard and will display the strength of his arm with furious anger and consuming fire, with a cloudburst, storm, and hailstones. 31 At the voice of the LORD, Assyria will be shattered; he will strike them down with his rod. 32 Every stroke the LORD lays on them with his punishing rod will be to the sound of tambourines and harps, as he fights them in battle with the blows of his arm. 33 Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its fire pit is deep and wide, with an abundance of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a stream of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.
  • Isa 31:8-9 : 8 Then Assyria will fall by a sword not wielded by man, and a sword not wielded by humans will devour them. They will flee from the sword, and their young men will be put into forced labor. 9 Their stronghold will pass away because of terror, and their officers will flee in panic at the signal. This is the declaration of the LORD, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
  • Isa 33:1-3 : 1 Woe to you, destroyer, who has not been destroyed! Woe to you, betrayer, who has not been betrayed! When you finish destroying, you will be destroyed. When you stop betraying, you will be betrayed. 2 LORD, be gracious to us! We have waited for You. Be our strength every morning and our salvation in times of distress. 3 At the sound of the tumult, peoples flee; when You are exalted, nations are scattered.
  • Isa 33:9-9 : 9 The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and withers. Sharon has become like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves. 10 "Now I will arise," says the LORD. "Now I will be exalted; now I will lift myself up." 11 You conceive chaff, you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will devour you. 12 The peoples will be burned as if to lime, like cut thorns set ablaze in the fire.
  • Isa 37:29-38 : 29 Because of your raging against Me and your arrogance that has reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way you came. 30 This will be the sign for you: This year you will eat what grows by itself, and in the second year, what springs from that. But in the third year, sow and reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 31 Once more, a remnant of the house of Judah will take root below and bear fruit above. 32 For a remnant will go out from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this. 33 Therefore, this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow here. He will not come before it with a shield or build a siege ramp against it. 34 By the way he came, he will return; he will not enter this city, declares the LORD. 35 I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David. 36 Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies. 37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp, departed, returned home, and stayed in Nineveh. 38 While he was worshiping in the house of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esarhaddon reigned in his place.
  • Dan 2:35 : 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were all crushed together and became like chaff from a summer threshing floor. The wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
  • Hos 13:3 : 3 Therefore, they will be like the morning cloud, like dew that vanishes early, like chaff blown away from the threshing floor, and like smoke escaping through a window.
  • Mark 4:39-41 : 39 He got up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, 'Peace! Be still!' Then the wind died down, and it was completely calm. 40 He said to them, 'Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?' 41 They were terrified and asked one another, 'Who then is this? Even the wind and the sea obey him!'
  • Ps 35:5 : 5 Let them be like chaff before the wind, as the angel of the Lord drives them away.
  • Ps 46:5-9 : 5 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy dwelling places of the Most High. 6 God is within her, she will not be moved; God will help her at the break of dawn. 7 Nations rage, kingdoms totter; He lifts His voice, the earth melts. 8 The LORD of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah. 9 Come, see the works of the LORD, who has brought desolation upon the earth. 10 He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; He breaks the bow, cuts the spear in two, and burns the chariots with fire. 11 Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
  • Ps 83:13-15 : 13 who said, 'Let us take possession of the pastures of God for ourselves.' 14 My God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind. 15 As fire burns a forest, and as flames set the mountains ablaze,
  • Isa 10:15-16 : 15 Does the axe exalt itself above the one who wields it? Or does the saw boast against the one who moves it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff acting as though it were not made of wood. 16 Therefore, the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, will send leanness among his robust ones, and under his glory, a burning will be kindled, like the burning of fire.
  • Isa 10:33-34 : 33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, will lop off the branches with terrifying power. The tall trees will be cut down, and the lofty ones will be humbled. 34 He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an axe, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.
  • Isa 14:25 : 25 I will break Assyria in My land and trample him on My mountains. Then his yoke will be taken off their shoulders, and his burden removed from their necks.
  • Isa 25:4-5 : 4 For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a refuge for the needy in their distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat – for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall. 5 Like heat in a dry land, you subdue the uproar of foreigners; as heat is subdued by the shade of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is silenced.
  • Isa 27:1 : 1 On that day, the LORD will punish with his fierce, great, and strong sword Leviathan, the fleeing serpent, Leviathan, the twisting serpent, and he will kill the sea monster that is in the sea.
  • Job 38:11 : 11 and said, 'This far you may come, but no farther; here is where your proud waves must halt.'