Verse 9

For if you turn again to the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before those that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away His face from you, if you return to Him.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  For dersom dere vender tilbake til Herren, vil deres brødre og barn finne barmhjertighet hos dem som har bortført dem, og de vil få vende tilbake til dette landet. For Herren deres Gud er nådig og barmhjertig; han vil ikke vende ansiktet bort fra dere hvis dere søker ham av hele deres hjerte.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  For hvis dere vender om til Herren, skal deres brødre og barn finne barmhjertighet hos dem som har bortført dem, så de kan vende tilbake til dette landet. For Herren, deres Gud, er nådig og barmhjertig, og han vil ikke vende sitt ansikt bort fra dere hvis dere vender om til ham.

• Norsk King James

  Dere som vender om til Herren, vil oppleve barmhjertighet hos de som har ført dere i fangenskap, slik at dere kan vende tilbake til dette landet; for Herren deres Gud er nådig og barmhjertig og vil ikke dra sitt ansikt bort fra dere hvis dere kommer til ham.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Hvis dere vender tilbake til Herren, vil deres brødre og barn finne barmhjertighet hos dem som holder dem fanget, og de vil komme tilbake til dette landet. For Herren deres Gud er nådig og barmhjertig, og han vil ikke vende sitt ansikt bort fra dere hvis dere omvender dere til ham.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  ‘For når dere vender tilbake til Herren, vil deres brødre og barn finne barmhjertighet hos dem som har ført dem i fangenskap, så de kan komme tilbake til dette landet. For Herren deres Gud er nådig og barmhjertig., og han vil ikke vende sitt ansikt bort fra dere hvis dere vender tilbake til ham.’

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  For hvis dere vender tilbake til Herren, skal deres brødre og deres barn finne barmhjertighet hos dem som har bortført dem, og de skal få komme tilbake til dette landet, for Herren deres Gud er nådig og barmhjertig og vil ikke vende sitt ansikt bort fra dere hvis dere vender tilbake til ham.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  For om dere vender dere tilbake til Herren, vil deres brødre og barn finne barmhjertighet hos dem som holder dem fanget, slik at de kan vende tilbake til dette landet; for Herren, deres Gud, er nådig og barmhjertig, og vil ikke vende sitt ansikt bort fra dere om dere vender dere til ham.

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

  For hvis dere vender tilbake til Herren, skal deres brødre og deres barn finne barmhjertighet hos dem som har bortført dem, og de skal få komme tilbake til dette landet, for Herren deres Gud er nådig og barmhjertig og vil ikke vende sitt ansikt bort fra dere hvis dere vender tilbake til ham.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  For når dere vender tilbake til Herren, vil deres brødre og sønner finne nåde for dem som har bortført dem, så de kan vende tilbake til dette landet. For Herren deres Gud er nådig og barmhjertig, og han vil ikke vende sitt ansikt bort fra dere hvis dere vender tilbake til ham.»

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  If you return to the LORD, your brothers and your children will be shown compassion by those who took them captive, and they will return to this land. For the LORD your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn His face from you if you return to Him.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  For dersom dere vender tilbake til Herren, skal deres brødre og barn finne barmhjertighet hos dem som har tatt dem fanget, og få vende tilbake til dette landet, for Herren, deres Gud, er nådig og barmhjertig og vil ikke vende sitt ansikt fra dere dersom dere vender tilbake til ham.»

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Thi naar I omvende eder til Herren, skulle eders Brødre og eders Børn faae Barmhjertighed for deres Ansigt, som holde dem fangne, saa at de skulle komme tilbage til dette Land; thi Herren eders Gud er naadig og barmhjertig, og skal ikke lade (sit) Ansigt vige fra eder, dersom I omvende eder til ham.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  «For hvis dere vender tilbake til Herren, vil deres brødre og barn finne nåde hos dem som har bortført dem, og de skal få komme tilbake til dette landet. For Herren deres Gud er nådig og barmhjertig, og han vil ikke vende sitt ansikt fra dere hvis dere vender tilbake til ham.»

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  For hvis dere vender tilbake til Herren, skal deres brødre og barn finne barmhjertighet hos dem som tok dem til fange, og komme tilbake til dette landet, for Herren, deres Gud, er nådig og barmhjertig og vil ikke vende sitt ansikt bort fra dere, hvis dere vender tilbake til ham.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  for når dere vender tilbake til Herren, vil deres brødre og barn finne nåde hos dem som har bortført dem, og de kan få vende tilbake til dette landet, for Herren deres Gud er nådig og barmhjertig, og han vil ikke vende sitt ansikt fra dere hvis dere vender tilbake til ham.'

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  For hvis dere vender om til Herren, skal deres brødre og barn finne barmhjertighet hos dem som førte dem i fangenskap, og de skal vende tilbake til dette landet. For Herren deres Gud er nådig og barmhjertig og vil ikke vende sitt ansikt bort fra dere hvis dere vender om til ham.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  For hvis dere vender tilbake til Herren, vil de som førte bort deres brødre og barn, ha medlidenhet med dem og la dem komme tilbake til dette landet. For Herren deres Gud er full av nåde og barmhjertighet, og hans ansikt vil ikke bli vendt bort fra dere hvis dere kommer tilbake til ham.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For yf ye turne vnto the LORDE, then shal youre brethren and children haue mercy in the sighte of them which holde them in captiuyte, that they maye come agayne in to this londe: for the LORDE youre God is gracious and mercifull, and shal not turne awaye his face from you, yf ye conuerte vnto him.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For if ye returne vnto the Lord, your brethren and your children shall finde mercy before them that led them captiues, and they shall returne vnto this lande: for the Lord your God is gracious and mercifull, and will not turne away his face from you, if ye conuert vnto him.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For if ye turne againe vnto the Lorde, then shall your brethren and your children finde compassion in the presence of them that toke them captiue, and they shall come againe vnto this lande: For the Lorde your God is gratious and mercifull, and wyll not turne away his face from you, if ye conuert vnto him.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children [shall find] compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God [is] gracious and merciful, and will not turn away [his] face from you, if ye return unto him.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children shall find compassion before those who led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  for in your turning back unto Jehovah, your brethren and your sons have mercies before their captors, even to return to this land, for gracious and merciful `is' Jehovah your God, and He doth not turn aside the face from you, if ye turn back unto Him.'

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For if ye turn again unto Jehovah, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For if you come back to the Lord, those who took away your brothers and your children will have pity on them, and let them come back to this land: for the Lord your God is full of grace and mercy, and his face will not be turned away from you if you come back to him.

• World English Bible (2000)

  For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children shall find compassion before those who led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him."

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  For if you return to the LORD, your brothers and sons will be shown mercy by their captors and return to this land. The LORD your God is merciful and compassionate; he will not reject you if you return to him.”

Referenced Verses

• Ps 106:46 : 46 He made those who carried them captives to pity them.
• Mic 7:18 : 18 Who is a God like you, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in mercy.
• Exod 34:6-7 : 6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth," 7 "Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and by no means clearing the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation."
• 1 Kgs 8:50 : 50 And forgive your people that have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you, and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
• Lev 26:40-42 : 40 If they shall confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary to me; 41 And that I also have walked contrary to them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity: 42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
• Deut 30:2-4 : 2 And shall return to the LORD your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul; 3 Then the LORD your God will end your captivity, and have compassion upon you, and will return and gather you from all the nations, where the LORD your God has scattered you. 4 If any of yours are driven out to the farthest parts of heaven, from there will the LORD your God gather you, and from there will he bring you:
• Isa 55:7 : 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
• Jer 18:17 : 17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
• Jer 29:12-14 : 12 Then you will call upon me, and you will go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart. 14 And I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD; and I will bring you back to the place from which I caused you to be carried away captive.
• Jer 31:27-28 : 27 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast. 28 And it shall come to pass, that just as I have watched over them, to uproot, to break down, to throw down, and to destroy, and to harm; so will I watch over them, to build and to plant, says the LORD.
• Ezek 18:30-32 : 30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, says the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, O house of Israel? 32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the Lord GOD: therefore turn yourselves, and live.
• Jonah 4:2 : 2 And he prayed to the LORD, and said, I pray you, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled before to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and relent from doing harm.
• 2 Chr 7:14 : 14 If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
• 2 Chr 15:2 : 2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while you are with Him; and if you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
• Neh 9:17 : 17 They refused to obey, and were not mindful of Your wonders that You did among them. But they hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a leader to return to their bondage. But You are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and did not forsake them.
• Neh 9:31 : 31 Nevertheless, in Your great mercies, You did not utterly consume them nor forsake them; for You are a gracious and merciful God.
• Ps 86:5 : 5 For You, Lord, are good and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all them that call upon You.
• Ps 86:15 : 15 But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plentiful in mercy and truth.
• Ps 111:4 : 4 He has made his wonderful works to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and full of compassion.
• Ps 145:7-8 : 7 They shall abundantly express the memory of your great goodness, and shall sing of your righteousness. 8 The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
• Prov 28:13 : 13 He who covers his sins shall not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.