Verse 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.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Og mitt folk, som er kalt med mitt navn, ydmyker seg, ber til meg, søker mitt ansikt og omvender seg fra sine onde veier, da vil jeg høre fra himmelen og tilgi deres synd og helbrede deres land.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Hvis mitt folk, som er kalt med mitt navn, ydmyker seg, ber, søker mitt ansikt og vender om fra sine onde veier, så vil jeg høre fra himmelen, tilgi deres synd, og lege deres land.

• Norsk King James

  Hvis mitt folk, som er kalt med mitt navn, ydmyker seg selv, og ber, og søker mitt ansikt, og vender seg fra sine onde veier; da vil jeg høre fra himmelen, og tilgi deres synd, og helbrede deres land.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  og mitt folk, som er kalt etter mitt navn, ydmyker seg, ber og søker mitt ansikt og vender om fra sine onde veier, så vil jeg høre fra himmelen, tilgi deres synder og lege deres land.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  og mitt folk, som er kalt ved mitt navn, ydmyker seg, ber, søker mitt ansikt og vender om fra sine onde veier, så vil jeg høre fra himmelen og tilgi deres synd og lege deres land.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Hvis mitt folk, som er kalt med mitt navn, ydmyker seg, ber og søker mitt ansikt, og vender om fra sine onde veier, da vil jeg høre dem fra himmelen, tilgi deres synder og lege deres land.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  om mitt folk, som bærer mitt navn, ydmyker seg, ber, søker mitt ansikt og vender seg bort fra sine onde veier, da vil jeg høre fra himmelen, tilgi deres synder og hele deres land.

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

  Hvis mitt folk, som er kalt med mitt navn, ydmyker seg, ber og søker mitt ansikt, og vender om fra sine onde veier, da vil jeg høre dem fra himmelen, tilgi deres synder og lege deres land.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  og mitt folk, som er kalt med mitt navn, ydmyker seg, og ber, og søker mitt ansikt, og vender om fra sine onde veier, så vil jeg høre fra himmelen og tilgi deres synd og lege deres land.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  if My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and heal their land.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  og mitt folk, som er kalt ved mitt navn, ydmyker seg og ber og søker mitt ansikt og vender om fra sine onde veier, da vil jeg høre fra himmelen, tilgi deres synd og lege deres land.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  og mit Folk ydmyger sig, som er kaldet efter mit Navn, og de bede og søge mit Ansigt og omvende sig fra deres de onde Veie, saa vil jeg, jeg høre af Himmelen og forlade deres Synder og gjøre deres Land sundt.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  hvis mitt folk, som er kalt ved mitt navn, ydmyker seg og ber og søker mitt ansikt og vender om fra sine onde veier, da vil jeg høre fra himmelen og tilgi deres synd og lege deres land.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  hvis mitt folk, som er kalt med mitt navn, ydmyker seg og ber og søker mitt ansikt og vender om fra sine onde veier, da vil jeg høre fra himmelen, og vil tilgi deres synd og helbrede deres land.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  og hvis mitt folk, som er kalt ved mitt navn, ydmyker seg, ber, søker mitt ansikt og vender om fra sine onde veier, da vil jeg høre fra himmelen, tilgi deres synd og lege deres land.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  så, om mitt folk, som er kalt med mitt navn, ydmyker seg og ber, søker mitt ansikt, og vender om fra sine onde veier, da vil jeg høre fra himmelen, tilgi deres synd og helbrede deres land.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Dersom mitt folk, som er kalt med mitt navn, ydmyker seg og ber, søker meg og vender om fra sine onde veier, da vil jeg høre fra himmelen, tilgi deres synd og gi landet liv igjen.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  to humble my people, which is named after my name: and yf they praye, and seke my face, and turne from their euell wayes, the wyl I heare them from heauen, and wyll forgeue their sinne, and heale their londe.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  If my people, among whome my Name is called vpon, doe humble them selues, and praye, and seeke my presence, and turne from their wicked wayes, then will I heare in heauen, and be mercifull to their sinne, & wil heale their land:

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And if they that are of my people, among whom my name is called vpon, do humble them selues, and make intercession, and seke my presence, and turne from their wicked wayes: then will I heare from heauen, and be mercifull to their sinne, and will heale their lande.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  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 will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and My people on whom My name is called be humbled, and pray, and seek My face, and turn back from their evil ways, then I -- I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  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 will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  If my people, on whom my name is named, make themselves low and come to me in prayer, searching for me and turning from their evil ways; then I will give ear from heaven, overlooking their sin, and will give life again to their land.

• World English Bible (2000)

  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 will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  if my people, who belong to me, humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, and repudiate their sinful practices, then I will respond from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

Referenced Verses

• Jas 4:9-9 : 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up.
• 2 Chr 6:37-39 : 37 Yet if they come to themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn and pray to you in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done wrong, and have dealt wickedly; 38 If they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have been carried captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, and toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name: 39 Then hear from the heavens, even from your dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you.
• Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near. 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.
• Lam 3:40-41 : 40 Let us search and examine our ways and turn back to the LORD. 41 Let us lift up our heart along with our hands to God in the heavens.
• Prov 28:13 : 13 He who covers his sins shall not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.
• 2 Chr 33:12-13 : 12 And when he was in distress, he sought the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13 And he prayed to him, and he was entreated of him and heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.
• 2 Chr 6:27 : 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.
• Ezek 18:27-30 : 27 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does what is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. 28 Because he considers and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 29 Yet says the house of Israel, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ O house of Israel, are not My ways equal? Are not your ways unequal? 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.
• Jer 33:6 : 6 Behold, I will bring it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
• Jer 8:22 : 22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? Why then is the health of the daughter of my people not recovered?
• Deut 4:29-30 : 29 But if from there you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30 When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you, even in the latter days, if you turn to the LORD your God, and be obedient to his voice;
• Deut 30:1-6 : 1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where the LORD your God has driven you, 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: 5 And the LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers. 6 And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
• Lev 26:40-41 : 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:
• Jer 51:9 : 9 We would have healed Babylon, but she cannot be healed; forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own country, for her judgment reaches unto heaven and is lifted up even to the skies.
• Isa 59:20 : 20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob, says the Lord.
• Isa 63:19 : 19 We are yours: you never ruled over them; they were not called by your name.
• Ezek 33:11 : 11 Say to them, As I live, says the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn back, turn back from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?
• Acts 9:11 : 11 And the Lord said to him, Arise, and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he is praying,
• Isa 45:19 : 19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Seek Me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
• 2 Chr 6:30 : 30 Then hear from heaven your dwelling place, and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you only know the hearts of the children of men:)
• 2 Chr 33:18-19 : 18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, are written in the book of the kings of Israel. 19 Also his prayer, how God was entreated of him, all his sin and trespass, and the places where he built high places and set up groves and carved images, before he humbled himself, are written among the sayings of the seers.
• Ps 60:2 : 2 You have made the earth to tremble; You have broken it; heal its breaches, for it shakes.