Verse 13

If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people;

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Når jeg lukker himmelen så det ikke kommer regn, eller befaler gresshopper å fortære landet, eller sender pest blant folket,

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Om jeg stenger himmelen så det ikke kommer regn, eller befaler gresshopper å fortære landet, eller sender pest blant mitt folk,

• Norsk King James

  Hvis jeg stenger himmelen så det ikke regner, eller hvis jeg befaler gresshopper å fortære landet, eller hvis jeg sender pest blant mitt folk;

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Hvis jeg lukker himmelen så det ikke kommer regn, eller jeg befaler gresshoppene å fortære landet, eller jeg lar pest komme over mitt folk,

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Om jeg lukker himmelen, så det ikke finnes regn, eller befaler gresshopper å fortære landet, eller sender pest blant mitt folk,

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Dersom jeg lukker himmelen så det ikke blir regn, eller befaler gresshoppene å ete opp landet, eller sender pest blant mitt folk;

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Om jeg lukker himmelen så det ikke faller regn, eller sender gresshopper for å ødelegge landet, eller lar en pest herje blant mitt folk;

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

  Dersom jeg lukker himmelen så det ikke blir regn, eller befaler gresshoppene å ete opp landet, eller sender pest blant mitt folk;

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Når jeg lukker himlene, så det ikke faller regn, eller jeg befaler gresshoppene å fortære landet, eller jeg sender pest blant mitt folk,

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people,

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Hvis jeg lukker himmelen så det ikke kommer regn, eller befaler gresshoppene å fortære landet eller sender pest blant mitt folk,

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  See, (naar) jeg tillukker Himmelen, at der ikke vorder Regn, og see, (naar) jeg byder Græshopper at æde Landet, eller naar jeg lader Pestilentse komme iblandt mit Folk,

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

• KJV 1769 norsk

  «Dersom jeg lukker himmelen så det ikke kommer regn, eller befaler gresshoppene å fortære landet, eller sender pest blant mitt folk;

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Hvis jeg lukker himmelen så det ikke regner, eller befaler gresshoppene å fortære landet, eller sender pest blant mitt folk;

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Om jeg lukker himmelen så det ikke kommer regn, om jeg befaler gresshopper å fortære landet, eller om jeg sender pest blant mitt folk,

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Dersom jeg lukker himmelen så det ikke regner, eller befaler gresshoppen å fortære landet, eller sender pest blant mitt folk,

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Dersom jeg ved mitt ord lukker himmelen, så det ikke kommer regn, eller dersom jeg sender gresshopper over landet for å ødelegge det, eller dersom jeg sender sykdom over mitt folk;

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Beholde, whan I shut the heaue so yt it raine not, or commaunde the greshopper to cosume the londe, or cause a pestilence to come amonge my people,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  If I shut the heauen that there be no raine, or if I commaunde the grashopper to deuoure the lande, or if I sende pestilence among my people,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  If I shut vp heauen that there be no rayne, or if I commaund the locustes to deuour the lande, or if I sende pestilence among my people:

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  If I restrain the heavens and there is no rain, and if I lay charge on the locust to consume the land, and if I send pestilence among My people --

• American Standard Version (1901)

  If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  If, at my word, heaven is shut up, so that there is no rain, or if I send locusts on the land for its destruction, or if I send disease on my people;

• World English Bible (2000)

  "If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  When I close up the sky so that it doesn’t rain, or command locusts to devour the land’s vegetation, or send a plague among my people,

Referenced Verses

• 2 Chr 6:26-28 : 26 When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them; 27 Then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you have taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance. 28 If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillars; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is:
• Job 11:10 : 10 If He passes by, and imprisons, or gathers together, then who can stop Him?
• Job 12:14 : 14 Behold, He breaks down, and it cannot be rebuilt: He shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.
• Ps 105:34 : 34 He spoke, and the locusts came, and caterpillars, and that without number,
• Ps 107:34 : 34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of those who dwell therein.
• Ezek 14:19-21 : 19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast: 20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall only deliver their own souls by their righteousness. 21 For thus says the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four severe judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the wild beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
• Joel 1:4-7 : 4 What the palmerworm has left, the locust has eaten; and what the locust has left, the cankerworm has eaten; and what the cankerworm has left, the caterpillar has eaten. 5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. 6 For a nation has come up against my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the cheek teeth of a great lion. 7 He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree: he has made it bare and cast it away; its branches are made white.
• Joel 2:25 : 25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
• Luke 4:25 : 25 But I tell you the truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine swept throughout all the land;
• Rev 3:7 : 7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These things says he who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens, and no man shuts; and shuts, and no man opens:
• Rev 11:6 : 6 These have power to shut heaven, that it does not rain in the days of their prophecy; and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they desire.
• Exod 10:4-6 : 4 But if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory: 5 And they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one will not be able to see the earth; and they shall eat the rest of what is left to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree that grows for you out of the field: 6 And they shall fill your houses, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians, which neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth to this day. And he turned and went out from Pharaoh.
• Num 14:12 : 12 I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.
• Num 16:46-47 : 46 And Moses said to Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire in it from the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly to the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague has begun. 47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague had begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.
• Deut 11:17 : 17 And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and He shuts up the heaven, so there is no rain, and the land yields no fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you.
• 2 Sam 24:13-15 : 13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? or will you flee three months before your enemies, while they pursue you? or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? Now consider, and see what answer I shall return to Him who sent me. 14 And David said to Gad, I am in great distress: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are great; and do not let me fall into the hand of man. 15 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand men died from Dan to Beersheba.