Verse 4

The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed festivals. All her gates are desolate; her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she is in bitter anguish.

Other Translations

  • GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

    Sions veier vitner om sorg, for ingen kommer til festene. Alle hennes porter er øde, prestene sukker, hennes jomfruer er bedrøvde, og hun selv er fylt av bitterhet.

  • Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

    Sions veier sørger fordi ingen kommer til høytidene. Alle hennes porter er øde, prestene sukker, jomfruene er bedrøvede, og hun selv er bitter.

  • Norsk King James

    Zions veier sørger, fordi ingen kommer til festene. Alle hennes porter er øde; hennes prester sukker, jomfruene lider, og hun er i dyp bitterhet.

  • Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

    Sions veier sørger fordi ingen kommer til høytidene; alle hennes porter er ødelagt, prestene sukker, jomfruene er bedrøvet, og selv er hun fylt med bitterhet.

  • Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

    Veiene til Sion sørger, for ingen kommer til høytidene lenger. Alle hennes porter er øde, prestene sukker, jomfruene er i sorg, og hun selv er i bitter sorg.

  • Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

    Zions veier sørger, for ingen kommer til de høytidelige festene; alle hennes porter er øde, hennes prester sukker, hennes jomfruer er i sorg, og hun er i bitterhet.

  • o3-mini KJV Norsk

    Zions veier sørger, for ingen kommer til de hellige høytidene; alle hennes porter er forlatt, hennes prester sukker, jomfruene lider, og hun er full av bitterhet.

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

    Zions veier sørger, for ingen kommer til de høytidelige festene; alle hennes porter er øde, hennes prester sukker, hennes jomfruer er i sorg, og hun er i bitterhet.

  • Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

    Sions veier sørger fordi ingen kommer til høytidene. Alle portene hennes er øde, prestene hennes sukker, jomfruene er bedrøvet, og hun selv er bitter.

  • GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

    Sions veier sørger, ingen kommer til høytidene hennes. Alle hennes porter er øde, prester sukker, jomfruer er bedrøvet, og selv er hun i bitter nød.

  • Original Norsk Bibel 1866

    Zions Veie sørge, fordi man ikke kommer til Forsamling; alle dens Porte ere ødelagte, dens Præster sukke; dens Jomfruer ere bedrøvede, og for hende selv (er det) bittert.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desote: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

  • KJV 1769 norsk

    Veiene til Sion sørger, for ingen kommer til de høytidelige festene: alle hennes porter er øde: hennes prester sukker, hennes jomfruer er bedrøvet, og hun er i bitterhet.

  • KJV1611 - Moderne engelsk

    The ways of Zion mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Webster

    Veiene til Sion sørger, for ingen kommer til høytidene; Alle hennes porter er øde, hennes prester sukker: Hennes jomfruer er i nød, og hun selv er i bitterhet.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

    Veiene til Sion sørger, ingen kommer ved høytider. Alle hennes porter er øde, prestene sukker, jomfruene er i nød, og hun er i bitterhet.

  • Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

    Veiene til Sion sørger, fordi ingen kommer til høytidssamlingen; Alle hennes porter er øde, prestene sukker: Jomfruene er bedrøvet, og hun selv er i bitterhet.

  • Norsk oversettelse av BBE

    Sions veier er sørgmodige, for ingen kommer til de hellige møtene; alle hennes porter er øde, prestene sukker tungt: hennes jomfruer er foruroliget, og det er bittert for henne.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    The stretes of Sion mourne, because no man commeth more to the solempne feastes: All hir gates are desolate, hir prestes make lamentacion, hir maydens are carefull, and she herself is in greate heuynesse.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    The wayes of Zion lament, because no man commeth to the solemne feastes: all her gates are desolate: her Priests sigh: her virgins are discomfited, and she is in heauinesse.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    The streetes of Sion mourne, because no man cometh no more to the solempne feastes: all her gates are desolate, her priestes make lamentatio, her maydens are carefull, and she her selfe is in great heauinesse.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she [is] in bitterness.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    The ways of Zion are mourning, Without any coming at the appointed time, All her gates are desolate, her priests sigh, Her virgins are afflicted -- and she hath bitterness.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    The ways of Zion are sad, because no one comes to the holy meeting; all her doorways are made waste, her priests are breathing out sorrow: her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    ד(Dalet) The roads to Zion mourn because no one travels to the festivals. All her city gates are deserted; her priests groan. Her virgins grieve; she is in bitter anguish!

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 9:11 : 11 Who is the wise person who may understand this? And to whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished, been scorched like a desert with no one passing through?
  • Joel 1:8-9 : 8 Mourn like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth. 9 Grain offerings and drink offerings are cut off from the house of the Lord. The priests, the ministers of the Lord, mourn. 10 The fields are devastated, and the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the olive oil fails. 11 Be ashamed, you farmers; wail, you vinekeepers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. 12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree withers; the pomegranate, the palm, and the apple tree—all the trees of the field are dried up. Indeed, joy has withered away from the people. 13 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister to my God, for grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
  • Isa 24:4-6 : 4 The earth mourns and withers; the world fades and withers; the exalted of the earth languish. 5 The earth is defiled by its inhabitants, for they have transgressed laws, violated statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants bear the guilt. Therefore, the earth’s inhabitants are burned, and few people are left.
  • Jer 10:22 : 22 Listen! The sound of a report is coming—a great commotion from the northern land to make the cities of Judah desolate, a dwelling place for jackals.
  • Jer 14:2 : 2 Judah mourns, and her gates languish; they sit on the ground in mourning, and the cry of Jerusalem rises up.
  • Lam 2:6-7 : 6 He has violently done away with his dwelling, as if it were a garden, destroying his appointed meeting place. The LORD has caused Zion to forget its appointed times and Sabbaths. In his fierce anger, he has despised king and priest alike. 7 The Lord has rejected his altar and disowned his sanctuary. He has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces. They raised their voices in the house of the LORD as on a day of appointed festival.
  • Lam 2:9-9 : 9 Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and princes are among the nations, and there is no law. Even her prophets receive no vision from the LORD. 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and dressed themselves in sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground in despair. 11 My eyes are worn out from weeping, my inner being is in turmoil; my heart is poured out on the ground because of the destruction of my people, as children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
  • Lam 2:19-21 : 19 Arise, cry out in the night, at the start of the night watches; pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your little children who faint from hunger at every street corner. 20 Look, LORD, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women eat their own children, the little ones they have cherished? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord? 21 Young and old lie together in the dust of the streets; my young women and young men have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered them without pity.
  • Lam 5:13 : 13 Young men toil at the grinding millstones, and boys stumble under heavy loads of wood.
  • Jer 33:10-12 : 10 This is what the Lord says: You say of this place, 'It is desolate, without people or animals,' in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted, without people, inhabitants, or animals. 11 The sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bridegroom and the bride, the voices of those who bring thank offerings to the house of the Lord, saying, 'Give thanks to the Lord Almighty, for the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever,' will again be heard. For I will restore the fortunes of the land as they were at first, says the Lord. 12 This is what the Lord Almighty says: In this desolate place, without people or animals, and in all its towns, there will again be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.
  • Lam 1:11-12 : 11 All her people groan as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to stay alive. "Look, LORD, and consider, for I am despised." 12 "Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the LORD inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.
  • Lam 1:18-20 : 18 The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against his word. Listen, all you peoples; look at my suffering. My young women and my young men have gone into captivity. 19 I called to my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders perished in the city while searching for food to revive their strength. 20 See, LORD, how distressed I am! I am in anguish within, my heart is overturned because I have been very rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is only death.
  • Isa 32:9-9 : 9 Rise up, you women who are at ease; listen to my voice! You daughters who feel secure, pay attention to what I say! 10 In little more than a year, you who feel secure will tremble, for the grape harvest will fail, and the gathering will not come. 11 Tremble, you who are at ease; shudder, you who feel secure! Strip yourselves bare and put on sackcloth around your waists. 12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines. 13 The land of my people will be covered with thorns and briers, indeed over all the joyful houses in the jubilant city. 14 For the palace will be deserted, the bustling city abandoned; the hill and the watchtower will become wastelands forever—a delight for wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks.
  • Mic 3:12 : 12 Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become a high place overgrown with thickets.