Verse 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.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Ung og gammel ligger på jorden, de små gatene. Mine jomfruer og mine unge menn er falt for sverdet; du har drept dem i din vredes dag, du har slaktet uten nåde. Sela.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Ung og gammel ligger på bakken ute; mine jomfruer og unge menn er falt ved sverdet. Du har drept dem på din vredes dag, du har slaktet og ikke spart.

• Norsk King James

  De unge og de gamle ligger på bakken i gatene: mine jomfruer og mine unge menn har falt for sverdet; du har drept dem på din vredens dag; du har drept, og ikke vist barmhjertighet.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Ung og gammel lå på jorden i gatene; mine jomfruer og mine unge menn har falt for sverdet; du drepte på din vredes dag, du slaktet, du sparte ikke.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Unge og gamle ligger på jorden i gatene. Mine jomfruer og mine unge menn har falt for sverdet. Du har drept på din vredes dag, nedslaktet ikke spart.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  De unge og de gamle ligger på bakken i gatene: mine jomfruer og mine unge menn har falt for sverdet; du har slaktet dem på din vredes dag; du har drept, og ikke hatt medlidenhet.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Unge og gamle ligger spredd på gatene; mine jomfruer og unge menn har falt for sverdet. Du tok deres liv på din vredes dag, du drepte uten å vise barmhjertighet.

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

  De unge og de gamle ligger på bakken i gatene: mine jomfruer og mine unge menn har falt for sverdet; du har slaktet dem på din vredes dag; du har drept, og ikke hatt medlidenhet.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Ung og gammel ligger på gaten, mine jomfruer og mine unge menn har falt for sverdet. Du har slaktet dem på din vredes dag, og du har ikke spart.

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Både ungdom og gammel ligger på jorden i gatene; mine unge kvinner og mine unge menn har falt for sverdet. Du har drept dem på din vredes dag; du har slaktet uten nåde. Sela.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Der laae paa Jorden i Gaderne Ung og Gammel; mine Jomfruer og mine unge Karle ere faldne ved Sværdet; du ihjelslog paa din Vredes Dag, du slagtede, du sparede ikke.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast sin them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Både unge og gamle ligger på bakken i gatene; mine jomfruer og mine unge menn har falt for sverd. Du har drept dem på din vredes dag; du har slaktet uten nåde.

• KJV1611 - Moderne engelsk

  The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword; You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have killed, and not pitied.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Unge og gamle ligger på bakken i gatene; mine jomfruer og mine unge menn har falt for sverdet. Du har drept dem på din vredes dag; du har slaktet og ikke vist noen nåde.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Unge som gamle ligger på jorden i utplassene, mine jomfruer og mine unge menn har falt for sverdet, du har drept dem på din vredes dag, du har slaktet — du har ikke spart.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Ung og gammel ligger på bakken i gatene; mine jomfruer og mine unge menn har falt for sverdet: Du har drept dem på din vredes dag; du har slaktet, og ikke vist nåde.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  De unge mennene og de gamle ligger utstrakt på jorden i gatene; mine jomfruer og mine unge menn er blitt drept med sverdet: du har sendt død over dem på din vredes dag, forårsaket død uten medynk.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Yonge & olde lye behinde the stretes vpon the grounde, my maydens & yonge men are slayne with the swearde: whom thou in the daye of thy wrothfull indignacion hast put to death: Yee euen thou hast put them to death, & not spared them.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  The yong and the olde lie on the ground in the streetes: my virgins and my yong men are fallen by the sworde: thou hast slaine them in the day of thy wrath: thou hast killed and not spared.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Young and olde lye thorowe the streetes vpon the grounde, my maydens and young men are slayne with the sworde, whom thou in the day of thy wrathfull indignation hast put to death, yea euen thou hast put them to death, and not spared them.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain [them] in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, [and] not pitied.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: You have killed them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, [and] not pitied.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Lain on the earth `in' out-places have young and old, My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword, Thou hast slain in a day of Thine anger, Thou hast slaughtered -- Thou hast not pitied.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; Thou hast slaughtered, [and] not pitied.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  The young men and the old are stretched on the earth in the streets; my virgins and my young men have been put to the sword: you have sent death on them in the day of your wrath, causing death without pity.

• World English Bible (2000)

  The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: You have killed them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, [and] not pitied.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  ש(Sin/Shin) The young boys and old men lie dead on the ground in the streets. My young women and my young men have fallen by the sword. You killed them when you were angry; you slaughtered them without mercy.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Chr 36:17 : 17 So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in their sanctuary and showed no mercy to young men, young women, the elderly, or the infirm; God delivered them all into his hand.
• Jer 13:14 : 14 And I will shatter them, one against another, fathers and sons together,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will show no pity, no compassion, and no mercy to prevent their destruction.’
• Lam 3:43 : 43 You have covered Yourself with anger and pursued us; You have slain without pity.
• Zech 11:6 : 6 For I will no longer show pity to the people of the land,' declares the LORD. 'I will give everyone into the hands of their neighbors and their king. They will crush the land, and I will not deliver them from their power.'
• Lam 2:2 : 2 The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob without pity. In his wrath, he has torn down the fortresses of the daughter of Judah, bringing them down to the ground. He has defiled her kingdom and its rulers.
• Lam 2:17 : 17 The LORD has done what he planned; he has fulfilled his word that he decreed long ago. He has overthrown without pity; he has let the enemy gloat over you and exalt the horn of your adversaries.
• Deut 28:50 : 50 It will be a fierce and ruthless nation, showing no respect for the old and no mercy for the young.
• Josh 6:21 : 21 They devoted to destruction everything in the city—men and women, young and old, as well as oxen, sheep, and donkeys—by the edge of the sword.
• 1 Sam 15:3 : 3 Now go and attack Amalek. Devote to destruction everything they have. Do not spare them; kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.'
• Ezek 5:11 : 11 Therefore, as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and abominations, I Myself will withdraw. My eye will not spare, and I will show no pity.
• Ezek 7:4 : 4 'I will not look on you with pity or spare you. I will repay you for your conduct and your detestable practices among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.'
• Ezek 7:9 : 9 'I will not look on you with pity or spare you. I will repay you according to your conduct and the detestable practices among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes you.'
• Ezek 8:18 : 18 Therefore I will act in wrath. My eye will not spare, nor will I have compassion. Even though they cry out loudly in My ears, I will not hear them.'
• Ezek 9:5-6 : 5 To the others, he said in my hearing, 'Pass through the city after him and strike down. Do not let your eye spare, and do not show pity.' 6 Old men, young men, virgins, children, and women—kill them all to the point of destruction. But do not go near anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.' So they began with the elders who were in front of the temple.
• Ezek 9:10 : 10 'But as for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I show pity. I will bring their actions back upon their own heads.'
• Amos 4:10 : 10 I sent plagues among you like those in Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. The stench of your camps rose into your nostrils, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD.
• Jer 18:21 : 21 So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, and let their men die by deadly disease; let their young men be struck down in battle.
• Jer 21:7 : 7 Afterward, declares the LORD, I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials, the people, and those remaining in this city from the plague, the sword, and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those seeking their lives. He will strike them down with the edge of the sword without pity, without sparing, and without mercy.
• Jer 51:22 : 22 With you, I shatter man and woman; with you, I shatter the old and the young; with you, I shatter the young man and the maiden.
• Lam 1:15 : 15 The Lord has rejected all my mighty men in my midst; he summoned an assembly against me to crush my young men. Like in a winepress, the Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah.
• Lam 1:18 : 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.
• Esth 3:13 : 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 78:62-63 : 62 He handed His people over to the sword, and His inheritance became the object of His fury. 63 Fire consumed their young men, and their virgins were not given in marriage.
• Isa 27:11 : 11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and light them on fire. For this is a people without understanding; therefore, their Maker will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not show them favor.
• Jer 6:11 : 11 But I am full of the wrath of the Lord, and I am weary of holding it in. Pour it out on the children in the streets and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be taken, the old and those advanced in years.
• Jer 9:21 : 21 Speak, this is what the Lord declares: The dead bodies of people will fall like dung on the open field, like bundles left behind by the reaper, with no one to gather them.
• Jer 11:22 : 22 Therefore, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I am about to punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters will die by famine.’