Verse 3

Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young; but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Selv sjakalene passer på sine unger; men datteren av mitt folk er blitt like hjerteløs som en struts som forlater sitt avkom.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Selv sjøuhyrene viser omsorg, de ammer sine unger; datteren av mitt folk er blitt grusom, som strutser i ørkenen.

• Norsk King James

  Selv havdyrene gir melk til sine unger; datteren til mitt folk er blitt grusom, som strutsene i ørkenen.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Selv sjakaler lar ungene die; men mitt folk har blitt grusomt som strutsene i ørkenen.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Sågar sjakaler bysser sine unger ved brystet, men datteren av mitt folk har blitt grusom som strutser i ørkenen.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Selv sjødyr gir die, de gir melk til ungene sine. Mitt folks datter er blitt grusom, som strutsene i ødemarken.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Selv sjøuhyrene drar ut brystet for å amme sine unger; datteren til mitt folk har blitt grusom, lik strutser i ødemarken.

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

  Selv sjødyr gir die, de gir melk til ungene sine. Mitt folks datter er blitt grusom, som strutsene i ødemarken.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Selv sjakaler byr sine unger die, men datteren av mitt folk har blitt grusom som strutser i ørkenen.

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Selv sjakaler byr bryst og ammer ungene sine, mens mitt folks døtre er blitt grusomme, lik strutser i ørkenen.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Selv Drager frembyde Brystet, de give deres Unger Die; (men) mit Folks Datter (er bleven) som (den, der er) grum, som Strudser i Ørken.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Selv sjøuhyrene trekker fram brystet og gir die til sin avkom; datteren av mitt folk er blitt grusom, som strutsene i ørkenen.

• KJV1611 - Moderne engelsk

  Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones; the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Selv sjakalene gir die til sine unger; Mitt folks datter er blitt grusom, som strutsene i ørkenen.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Selv drager trekker brystet frem og gir amme til sine unger, men datteren av mitt folk har blitt grusom, som strutsene i ødemarken.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Selv sjakalene drar ut brystene, de gir die til sine unger; Mitt folks datter er blitt grusom, som strutsene i ørkenen.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Selv ørkenens dyr har fullmelkede bryst som de gir sine unger: men min folkedatter er blitt grusom, som strutsene i ødemarken.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  The Lamyes geue their yonge ones suck wt bare brestes: but the doughter of my people is cruel, and dwelleth in the wyldernesse: like the Estriches.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Euen the dragons draw out the breastes, and giue sucke to their yong, but the daughter of my people is become cruell like the ostriches in the wildernesse.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  The dragons geue their young ones sucke with bare brestes: but the daughter of my people is cruel, like the Estriches in the wildernesse.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people [is become] cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Even dragons have drawn out the breast, They have suckled their young ones, The daughter of my people is become cruel, Like the ostriches in a wilderness.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Even the beasts of the waste land have full breasts, they give milk to their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the waste land.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: The daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  ג(Gimel) Even the jackals nurse their young at their breast, but my people are cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness.

Referenced Verses

• Isa 49:15 : 15 Can a woman forget her nursing child or lack compassion for the child of her womb? Even if these forget, I will not forget you.
• Ezek 5:10 : 10 Therefore, fathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you and scatter all your survivors to every wind.
• Luke 23:28-29 : 28 But Jesus turned to them and said, 'Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For look, the days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'
• Rom 1:31 : 31 they are senseless, faithless, unloving, unforgiving, and unmerciful.
• Jer 19:9 : 9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh because of the siege and distress that their enemies and those who seek their lives will impose on them.
• Lam 2:20 : 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?
• Lam 4:10 : 10 The compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.
• Lev 26:29 : 29 You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.
• Deut 28:52-57 : 52 They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until your high fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down. They will besiege all the cities in the land the LORD your God has given you. 53 Because of the suffering your enemy inflicts upon you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of your womb—the flesh of your sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you. 54 Even the most tender and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who are still alive. 55 He will not share with any of them the flesh of his children that he is eating, because he has nothing else during the suffering and siege that your enemy will inflict on all your cities. 56 The most tender and delicate woman among you, so refined that she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she loves, her son, and her daughter. 57 She will secretly eat her afterbirth and the children she bears during the siege and suffering that your enemy inflicts upon your cities, because she is in dire need of food.
• 2 Kgs 6:26-29 : 26 As the king of Israel was walking along the city wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help me, my lord the king!" 27 He answered, "If the LORD does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?" 28 Then the king asked her, "What is your problem?" She replied, "This woman said to me, 'Give me your son so we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.' 29 So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day, I said to her, 'Give me your son so we may eat him,' but she had hidden her son."
• Job 39:13-16 : 13 The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but are they the pinions and plumage of a stork? 14 She leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the dust. 15 She forgets that a foot may crush them or a wild animal may trample them. 16 She treats her young harshly, as if they were not hers; her labor is in vain because she has no fear.