Verse 5

I will come near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, adulterers, and those who swear falsely; against those who defraud workers of their wages, oppress widows and orphans, and deprive foreigners of justice. They do not fear me, says the Lord of Hosts.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Jeg vil komme nær dere til doms; jeg skal være et raskt vitne mot trollmenn, ekteskapsbrytere, dem som sverger falskt, de som holder tilbake den daglønte lønnen, undertrykker enker og farløse, og avviser innflyttere i strid med loven, og ikke frykter meg, sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Jeg vil komme nær til dere for dom. Jeg vil være et raskt vitne mot trollmenn, mot ekteskapsbrytere, mot falske edsavleggere, mot dem som undertrykker leiekaren i hans lønn, enken og den farløse, og som vraker fremmedes rett og ikke frykter meg, sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud.

• Norsk King James

  Og jeg vil komme nær til dere for å dømme; jeg vil være et raskt vitne mot trollmennene, ekteskapsbryterne, falske svorne, og dem som undertrykker arbeiderne i deres lønn, enker og foreldreløse, som fratar fremmede deres rett, og frykter ikke meg, sier HERREN over hærer.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Jeg vil komme nær for å holde dom, og jeg vil være et raskt vitne mot trollmenn, ekteskapsbrytere, de som sverger falskt, og de som holder tilbake daglønnen fra de som arbeider, undertrykker enker og farløse, bøyer retten for utlendingen, og ikke frykter meg, sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Jeg vil komme nær til dere for dom. Jeg vil være en snar vitne mot trollmenn, mot dem som bryter ekteskapet, mot dem som sverger falskt, mot dem som undertrykker dagleierens lønn, enker og farløse, og mot dem som undertrykker innflyttere og som ikke frykter meg, sier Herren, Allhærs Gud.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Og jeg vil komme nær til dere for dom; og jeg vil være et raskt vitne mot trollmennene, og mot ekteskapsbryterne, og mot falske edsvergere, og mot dem som undertrykker leiearbeideren i hans lønn, enker og farløse, og som vender fremmede bort fra deres rett, og som ikke frykter meg, sier Herren over hærskarene.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Jeg vil nærme meg dere til dom, og jeg skal være et raskt vitne mot trollmenn, utro, falske ederleggere og dem som utnytter den lønnede, den enkens og de foreldreløses sak, og for dem som berøver fremmede hans rett, og som ikke frykter meg, sier HERRENS hærskarer.

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

  Og jeg vil komme nær til dere for dom; og jeg vil være et raskt vitne mot trollmennene, og mot ekteskapsbryterne, og mot falske edsvergere, og mot dem som undertrykker leiearbeideren i hans lønn, enker og farløse, og som vender fremmede bort fra deres rett, og som ikke frykter meg, sier Herren over hærskarene.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Jeg vil komme nær dere for dom, og jeg vil være et raskt vitne mot trollmennene, ekteskapsbryterne, dem som sverger falskt, dem som undertrykker de ansattes lønn, enker og farløse, og som fratar innflytterne rettferdighet, og som ikke frykter meg, sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud.

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Jeg skal komme nær til dere for dom. Jeg skal være en rask vitne mot trollmenn, mot ekteskapsbrytere, mot dem som sverger falskt, mot dem som undertrykker dagarbeideren i hans lønn, enken og den farløse, og mot dem som vender det utenlandske folket bort og ikke frykter meg, sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Og jeg vil komme nær til eder til Dom, og være et hastende Vidne imod Troldkarlene og imod Horkarlene og imod dem, som sværge falskeligen, og imod dem, som med Vold tilbageholde Daglønnerens Løn, (fortrykke) Enke og Faderløs, og bøie (Retten) for den Fremmede, og ikke frygte mig, sagde den Herre Zebaoth.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Og jeg vil komme nær til dere for dom; og jeg vil være et raskt vitne mot trollmennene, og mot ekteskapsbryterne, og mot falske edsavleggere, og mot dem som undertrykker arbeideren i hans lønn, enken, og den farløse, og som avleder den fremmede fra hans rett, og som ikke frykter meg, sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud.

• KJV1611 - Moderne engelsk

  And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who oppress the laborer in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Jeg skal komme nær til dere for dom; og jeg skal være et raskt vitne mot trollmennene, mot ekteskapsbryterne, mot de som sverger falskt, mot de som undertrykker den som får lønn, enken og den farløse, og som nekter den fremmede rettferdighet, og som ikke frykter meg, sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Jeg vil komme nær til dere for dom, og jeg vil være et vitne mot trollmenn, ekteskapsbrytere og de som sverger falskt, de som undertrykker leiekaren, enker og farløse, og de som avviser innflyttere og ikke frykter meg, sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Og jeg vil komme nær til dere for dom, og jeg vil være et raskt vitne mot trollmennene, ekteskapsbryterne, løgnerne, de som undertrykker leiekaren, enken og den farløse, og de som vender fremmede bort fra deres rett, og som ikke frykter meg, sier Herren over hærskarene.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Jeg vil komme nær til dere for å dømme; jeg skal raskt vitne mot trollmenn, mot dem som bryter ekteskapet, mot dem som sverger falskt; mot dem som holder tilbake lønnen fra arbeiderne, undertrykker enker og farløse, og de som nekter rett til fremmede, uten frykt for meg, sier Herren over hærskarene.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  I will come & punysh you, & I myself wil be a swift wytnes agaynst the witches, agaynst the aduouterers, agaynst false swearers: yee ad agaynst those, that wrogeously kepe backe the hyrelynges dewty: which vexe the wyddowes & the fatherlesse, & oppresse the straunger, and feare not me, sayeth the LORDE of hoostes.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And I will come neere to you to iudgement, and I will be a swift witnesse against the southsayers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that wrongfully keepe backe the hirelings wages, and vexe the widowe, and the fatherlesse, and oppresse the stranger, and feare not me, sayth the Lord of hostes.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And I wyl come neare to you in iudgement, and I wyll be a swyft witnesse against the soothsayers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that wrongfully keepe backe the hirelynges wages, and vexe the widowe and the fatherlesse, and oppresse the straunger, and feare not me, saith the Lorde of hoastes.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Hosts.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner [from his right], and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

• World English Bible (2000)

  I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Armies.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  “I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the resident foreigner and in this way show they do not fear me,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

Referenced Verses

• Lev 19:13 : 13 Do not oppress or rob your neighbor. Do not withhold the wages of a hired worker overnight.
• Deut 24:17 : 17 Do not pervert justice for the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow's garment as security for a pledge.
• Deut 27:19 : 19 Cursed is anyone who denies justice to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
• Mal 2:14 : 14 Yet you ask, 'Why?' Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth. You have been unfaithful to her, though she is your companion and the wife of your covenant.
• Jer 29:23 : 23 For they have done outrageous things in Israel, committing adultery with their neighbors' wives and speaking lies in my name, things I did not command them to do. I am the one who knows and the one who witnesses this, declares the LORD.
• Jas 5:4 : 4 Look, the wages that you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
• Jas 5:8-9 : 8 You too must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the coming of the Lord is near. 9 Do not grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at the door.
• Jas 5:12 : 12 Above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear—not by heaven or earth or any other oath. Let your ‘Yes’ mean ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No’ mean ‘No,’ so that you may not fall under judgment.
• Jude 1:14-15 : 14 Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them, saying, 'Behold, the Lord comes with countless thousands of His holy ones,' 15 to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds they have committed, and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.
• Rev 21:8 : 8 But as for the cowardly, the unbelieving, the detestable, murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.
• Rev 22:15 : 15 Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
• Ezek 22:6-9 : 6 See, the princes of Israel, each one by his own might, have been in you to shed blood. 7 Within you, they have treated father and mother with contempt; they have oppressed the foreigner in your midst; they have wronged the orphan and the widow. 8 You have despised my holy things and profaned my Sabbaths. 9 The men in you who slander for the purpose of shedding blood eat at the high places; they commit lewdness in your midst. 10 In you, they have dishonored their fathers' nakedness; they have violated women during their impurity. 11 One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife, another defiles his daughter-in-law with wickedness, and another violates his sister, his father’s daughter. 12 In you, they accept bribes to shed blood; they take interest and increase unlawfully. You have gained profit in extorting your neighbors, and you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD.
• Ezek 34:20-22 : 20 Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says to them: Behold, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 21 Because you push with your side and shoulder, and butt all the weak sheep with your horns until you have scattered them far and wide, 22 I will save My flock so they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.
• Mic 1:2 : 2 Listen, all you peoples; pay attention, Earth and all that fills it! The Lord God will act as a witness against you from His holy temple.
• Zech 5:3-4 : 3 Then he said to me, 'This is the curse that is going out over the whole land: for everyone who steals will be judged according to what is written on one side, and everyone who swears falsely will be judged according to what is written on the other side.' 4 'I will send it out,' declares the LORD of Hosts, 'and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by my name. It will remain inside their house and consume it completely, including its timber and stones.'
• Mal 2:17 : 17 You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you ask, 'How have we wearied Him?' By saying, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and He delights in them,' or 'Where is the God of justice?'
• Matt 23:13-35 : 13 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor do you allow those entering to go in. 14 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore, you will receive a greater condemnation. 15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as you are. 16 Woe to you, blind guides! You say, 'If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.' 17 You fools and blind! Which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold? 18 And you say, 'If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is obligated.' 19 You fools and blind! Which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift? 20 Therefore, whoever swears by the altar swears by it and everything on it. 21 And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and by the One who dwells in it. 22 And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits upon it. 23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You tithe mint, dill, and cumin but have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy, and faithfulness. These you ought to have done without neglecting the others. 24 Blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel. 25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside may also become clean. 27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and all impurity. 28 So too, on the outside you appear righteous to people, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. 29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous, 30 and you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.' 31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your forefathers' sins! 33 You serpents, you brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to hell? 34 Therefore, look, I am sending you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town, 35 so that upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
• Luke 23:40 : 40 But the other criminal rebuked him, saying, 'Don't you fear God, since you are under the same sentence?
• Rom 3:8 : 8 Why not say—as some slanderously claim we say—"Let us do evil so that good may result"? Their condemnation is just.
• 1 Cor 6:9-9 : 9 Don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
• Gal 5:19-21 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
• 1 Thess 4:6 : 6 And that no one transgresses or defrauds their brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger of all these things, as we have forewarned and solemnly testified to you.
• Heb 10:30-31 : 30 For we know Him who said, 'Vengeance is Mine; I will repay,' says the Lord. And again, 'The Lord will judge His people.' 31 It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
• Heb 13:4 : 4 Marriage is to be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
• Neh 5:15 : 15 The former governors who were before me placed heavy burdens on the people, taking food and wine from them, in addition to forty shekels of silver. Even their servants oppressed the people. But because of the fear of God, I did not act like that.
• Ps 36:1 : 1 To the choirmaster, a servant of the Lord, a psalm of David.
• Ps 50:3-7 : 3 Our God will come and will not be silent; before Him is a consuming fire, and a mighty storm surrounds Him. 4 He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that He may judge His people. 5 Gather to me my faithful ones, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. 6 The heavens declare His righteousness, for God Himself is judge. Selah. 7 Hear, my people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you: I am God, your God.
• Ps 81:8 : 8 In your distress you called, and I rescued you; I answered you from the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
• Ps 96:13 : 13 Let all this happen before the LORD, for he is coming—he is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his faithfulness.
• Ps 98:9 : 9 Before the LORD, for He is coming to judge the earth; He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with equity.
• Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior, and perverse speech.
• Prov 16:6 : 6 Through love and faithfulness sin is atoned for; through the fear of the Lord evil is avoided.
• Prov 22:22-23 : 22 Do not rob the poor because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate. 23 For the LORD will plead their case and will rob of life those who rob them.
• Prov 23:10-11 : 10 Do not move an ancient boundary marker, nor enter the fields of the fatherless. 11 For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their case against you.
• Jer 7:9-9 : 9 Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known, 10 and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my name, and say, ‘We are safe,’ only to go on doing all these detestable things?
• Jer 22:13-17 : 13 Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice, making his neighbor work for nothing and not paying him for his labor. 14 He says, 'I will build for myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,' cutting out large windows for it, paneling it with cedar, and painting it with vermilion. 15 Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Your father ate and drank, but he practiced justice and righteousness, and it went well with him. 16 He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and it was well with him. Is this not what it means to know me? declares the LORD. 17 But your eyes and heart are set only on your dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and violence.
• Lev 20:6 : 6 If anyone turns to mediums or spiritists, prostituting themselves by following them, I will set my face against that person and cut them off from their people.
• Lev 20:10 : 10 If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.
• Lev 20:27 : 27 If a man or a woman has a spirit of divination or is a medium, they must be put to death. They are to be stoned, and their blood is upon them.
• Deut 5:11 : 11 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who takes His name in vain.
• Deut 5:17-21 : 17 You shall not murder. 18 You shall not commit adultery. 19 You shall not steal. 20 You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. 21 You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. You shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
• Deut 24:14-15 : 14 Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns. 15 Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and depend on it. Otherwise, they may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
• Gen 20:11 : 11 Abraham replied, 'I thought, Surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.'
• Gen 42:18 : 18 On the third day, Joseph said to them, 'Do this, and you will live; for I fear God.'
• Exod 1:17 : 17 The midwives, however, feared God and did not obey the king of Egypt's command; they let the boys live.
• Exod 18:21 : 21 But select capable men from among all the people—men who fear God, are trustworthy, and hate dishonest gain. Appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.
• Exod 22:21-24 : 21 Do not afflict a widow or an orphan. 22 If you do afflict them and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry. 23 My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless. 24 If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you must not act as a creditor to him; do not charge him interest.