Verse 15

Yet My people have forgotten Me; they burn incense to worthless idols. They have stumbled in their ways, on ancient paths, and have strayed onto byways, roads not built up.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Men folket mitt har glemt meg, og de brenner røkelse til verdiløse avguder. De får folk til å snuble på sine veier, på de eldgamle stiene, for å gå på veier som ikke er bygget opp.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Men mitt folk har glemt meg, de brenner røkelse til det meningsløse, og de har fått dem til å snuble på sine veier, de gamle stier, for å vandre på stier, på en vei som ikke er opparbeidet.

• Norsk King James

  For mitt folk har glemt meg og ofrer røkelse til det som er forfengelig og lar seg snuble fra de gamle stiene for å følge kronglete veier;

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Men folket mitt har glemt meg, de brenner røkelse til de tomme avgudene; de snubler på sine veier, de gamle stiene, for å gå på ukjente stier og veier.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Men mitt folk har glemt meg, de ofrer til det som ikke kan hjelpe. De fikk dem til å snuble på sine stier fra de urgamle veiene, for å gå på stier, en vei som ikke er ryddet.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Fordi mitt folk har glemt meg, har de brent røkelse til tomhet, og de har fått dem til å snuble bort fra de gamle stier, til å vandre på stier som ikke er ryddet opp;

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  For mitt folk har glemt meg; de har ofret røkelse til tomhet, og dermed har de fått seg selv til å snuble ved å forlate de gamle stiene til fordel for uordnede veier.

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

  Fordi mitt folk har glemt meg, har de brent røkelse til tomhet, og de har fått dem til å snuble bort fra de gamle stier, til å vandre på stier som ikke er ryddet opp;

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  For mitt folk har glemt meg, de brenner røkelse til det som er forgjeves, de har fått dem til å snuble i sine veier, de gamle stiene, for å gå på stier, en vei som ikke er belagt,

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Men mitt folk har glemt meg, de har brent røkelse for det som er falskt, og de har fått dem til å snuble på sine veier, de gamle stier, for å vandre på sideveier, på en vei som ikke er opparbeidet.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Dog haver mit Folk glemt mig, de gjøre Røgelse for Forfængelighed; og de støde an paa deres Veie, paa de evige Stier, for at gaae paa Stier, paa den Vei, som ikke er banet,

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;

• KJV 1769 norsk

  For mitt folk har glemt meg, de har brent røkelse til tomhet, og de har fått dem til å snuble på sine veier, fra de gamle stier, for å gå på stier, en vei som ikke er ryddet,

• KJV1611 - Moderne engelsk

  Because my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not established;

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  For mitt folk har glemt meg, de har brent røkelse til falske guder; og de har blitt fått til å snuble i sine veier, de gamle stiene, for å vandre på stier, på en vei som ikke er opparbeidet;

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Men mitt folk har glemt meg; de ofrer til falske guder, og har fått dem til å snuble på sine veier, de gamle stiene, for å gå på stier, en vei som ikke er opphøyd,

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  For mitt folk har glemt meg, de har brent røkelse for falske guder; og de har fått seg selv til å snuble på sine veier, på de gamle stiene, for å gå sidesporene, i en vei som ikke er opphøyd.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  For mitt folk har glemt meg, de brenner røkelse for det som ikke er noe; derfor får jeg dem til å snuble på sine stier, i de eldgamle veiene, og få dem til å vandre på sideveier, på en vei uten opphøyelse;

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  But my people hath so forgotten me, yt they haue made sacrifice vnto vayne goddes. And whyle they folowed their owne wayes they are come out of the hie strete, and gone in to a fote waye not vsed to be troden.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Because my people hath forgotten me, and haue burnt incense to vanitie, and their prophets haue caused them to stumble in their wayes from the auncient wayes, to walke in the pathes and way that is not troden,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  But my people hath forgotten me, they haue made sacrifice in vayne, and their prophetes make them fall in their wayes from the auncient pathes, and to go into a way not vsed to be troden of iust men.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways [from] the ancient paths, to walk in paths, [in] a way not cast up;

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false [gods]; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  But My people have forgotten Me, to a vain thing they make perfume, And they cause them to stumble in their ways -- paths of old, To walk in paths -- a way not raised up,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false [gods] ; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up;

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For my people have put me out of their memory, burning perfumes to that which is nothing; and because of this, I will put a cause of falling in their ways, even in the old roads, and will make them go on side-roads, in a way not lifted up;

• World English Bible (2000)

  For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false [gods]; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Yet my people have forgotten me and offered sacrifices to worthless idols! This makes them stumble along in the way they live and leave the old reliable path of their fathers. They have left them to walk in bypaths, in roads that are not smooth and level.

Referenced Verses

• Isa 57:14 : 14 And it will be said: 'Build up, build up, prepare the road! Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.'
• Jer 6:16 : 16 This is what the Lord says: 'Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'
• Jer 10:15 : 15 They are worthless, a work of mockery; at the time of their punishment, they will perish.
• Jer 2:32 : 32 Can a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding adornments? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.
• 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.
• Isa 41:29 : 29 Behold, all of them are worthless; their works are nothing; their metal idols are wind and emptiness.
• Isa 65:7 : 7 Your iniquities and the iniquities of your ancestors together,' says the LORD, 'because they burned incense on the mountains and reproached me on the hills; I will measure their former deeds into their laps.'
• Jer 3:21 : 21 A voice is heard on the barren heights: the weeping and pleading of the people of Israel, because they have perverted their ways and have forgotten the LORD their God.
• Jer 44:15-19 : 15 Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods answered Jeremiah, along with all the women standing there in a large assembly, and all the people living in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, saying: 16 The word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you. 17 Instead, we will do everything we promised: we will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, just as we, our ancestors, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. At that time, we had plenty of food, prospered, and experienced no disaster. 18 But since we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by sword and famine. 19 And when we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured drink offerings to her, did we do it without our husbands’ approval? Were they not with us when we made cakes shaped like her and poured drink offerings to her?
• Jer 13:25 : 25 This is your lot, the portion measured for you from Me,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.
• Jer 16:19 : 19 LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of trouble! Nations will come to You from the ends of the earth and say, 'Our ancestors inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols that do not profit at all.'
• Jer 17:13 : 13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake You will be put to shame. Those who turn away from You will be written in the earth, for they have abandoned the fountain of living water, the LORD.
• Hos 2:13 : 13 I will put an end to all her celebrations: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her appointed festivals.
• Hos 11:2 : 2 But the more they were called, the more they went away from them; they sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to the carved images.
• Mal 2:8 : 8 But you have turned aside from the way, and by your teaching have caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant with Levi, says the Lord of Hosts.
• Matt 15:6 : 6 they are not to honor their father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
• Rom 14:21 : 21 It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother or sister to stumble, to be offended, or to be weakened.
• Jer 19:5 : 5 They have built high places to Baal to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did not command or speak of, nor did it ever enter My mind.
• Jer 44:25 : 25 This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: You and your wives have declared with your mouths and fulfilled with your hands, saying, ‘We will certainly keep the vows we made to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and pour out drink offerings to her.’ Go ahead then, fulfill your vows and keep your promises.
• 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.
• Isa 62:10 : 10 Pass through, pass through the gates! Clear the way for the people. Build up, build up the highway; remove the stones. Raise a banner for the nations!
• Isa 3:12 : 12 My people! Children oppress you, and women rule over you. Your guides mislead you and destroy the way of your paths.
• Isa 9:16 : 16 Therefore, the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, nor will he have compassion on their orphans and widows, for everyone is ungodly and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. Yet for all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still stretched out.