Verse 13

Yet the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets and by all the seers, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Selv om Herren advarte Israel og Juda gjennom alle sine profeter og seere, sa han: 'Vend om fra deres onde veier og hold mine bud og lover, som jeg gav deres fedre, og som jeg sendte til dere gjennom mine tjenere, profetene.'

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Herrens vitnesbyrd var mot Israel og Juda, ved alle profetene og seerne, idet han sa: Vend om fra deres onde veier, og hold mine bud og forskrifter i henhold til all den loven som jeg befalte deres fedre, og som jeg sendte dere ved mine tjenere profetene.

• Norsk King James

  Likevel vitnet Herren mot Israel, og mot Juda, gjennom alle profetene og seerne, og sa: Vend om fra deres onde veier, og hold mine bud og mine forskrifter, i samsvar med all loven som jeg befalte deres fedre, og som jeg sendte til dere ved mine tjener, profetene.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Herren vitnet mot Israel og mot Juda gjennom alle profetene og seerne og sa: Vend om fra deres onde veier og hold mine bud og forskrifter etter hele loven jeg befalte deres fedre, og som jeg sendte til dere ved mine tjenere, profetene.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Herren advarte Israel og Juda gjennom alle sine profeter og seere, og sa: Vend om fra deres onde veier og hold mine bud og forskrifter, i samsvar med hele loven jeg befalte deres fedre og sendte til dere gjennom mine tjenere profetene.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Men Herren vitnet mot Israel og mot Juda gjennom alle profetene og alle seerne, og sa: Vend dere bort fra deres onde veier, og hold mine bud og forskrifter, i samsvar med hele loven som jeg befalte deres fedre, og som jeg sendte til dere ved mine tjenere profetene.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Likevel vitnet HERREN mot Israel og mot Juda gjennom alle profetene og varslerne, og sa: 'Vend dere bort fra deres onde veier og hold mine bud og mine lover, slik som jeg befalt deres fedre og sendte til dere gjennom mine tjenere profetene.'

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

  Men Herren vitnet mot Israel og mot Juda gjennom alle profetene og alle seerne, og sa: Vend dere bort fra deres onde veier, og hold mine bud og forskrifter, i samsvar med hele loven som jeg befalte deres fedre, og som jeg sendte til dere ved mine tjenere profetene.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Herren hadde advart Israel og Juda gjennom alle sine profeter og seere og sagt: 'Vend om fra deres onde veier og hold mine bud og lover, i samsvar med hele loven jeg ga deres fedre og sendte til dere gjennom mine tjenere profetene!'

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah through all His prophets and seers, saying, 'Turn back from your evil ways and keep My commandments and statutes according to the entire law I commanded your fathers to follow, and which I sent to you through My servants the prophets.'

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Men Herren advarte Israel og Juda gjennom alle profetene og seerne, og sa: 'Vend om fra deres onde veier, hold mine bud og forskrifter, i henhold til den lov som jeg befalte deres fedre, og som jeg har sendt til dere ved mine tjenere, profetene.'

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Og Herren havde ladet vidne i Israel og i Juda formedelst alle Propheter, alle Seere, sigende: Vender om fra eders onde Veie og holder mine Bud, mine Skikke, efter al den Lov, som jeg bød eders Fædre, og som jeg sendte til eder om formedelst mine Tjenere, Propheterne.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Likevel vitnet Herren mot Israel og Juda gjennom alle profetene og alle seerne, og sa: Vend om fra deres onde veier, hold mine bud og forskrifter i samsvar med hele loven som jeg ga deres fedre, og som jeg sendte til dere gjennom mine tjenere profetene.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Likevel vitnet Herren mot Israel og Juda ved alle profetene og alle seerne, og sa: Vend om fra deres onde veier, og hold mine bud og lover i henhold til hele den loven jeg befalte deres fedre, og som jeg sendte dere ved mine tjenere profetene.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Herren vitnet mot Israel og mot Juda ved hjelp av hver profet og hver seer, og sa: 'Vend tilbake fra deres onde veier, og hold mine bud og forordninger etter hele loven som jeg påla deres fedre og som jeg sendte til dere ved mine tjenere profetene.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Men Herren vitnet mot Israel og mot Juda gjennom alle sine profeter og seere og sa: Vend dere bort fra deres onde veier, og hold mine bud og forskrifter, etter hele den loven som jeg påla deres fedre, og som jeg sendte til dere ved mine tjenere profetene.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Han vitnet til Israel og Juda gjennom alle profetene og seerne, og sa: Vend tilbake fra deres onde veier og hold mine befalinger og forskrifter, i samsvar med hele loven som jeg ga deres fedre, og som jeg sendte til dere ved mine tjenere profetene.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And whan the LORDE testified in Israel and Iuda by all the prophetes and Seers, sayenge: O turne agayne from youre euell wayes, and kepe my commaundemetes and ordynaunces, acordinge to all ye lawe which I gaue vnto youre fathers, and that I sent vnto you by my seruauntes the prophetes:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Notwithstanding the Lord testified to Israel, and to Iudah by all the Prophets, & by all the Seers, saying, Turne from your euill wayes, and keepe my commandements & my statutes, according to all the Lawe, which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my seruants the Prophets.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And the Lorde testified in Israel and in Iuda by all the prophetes and by all the sears, saying: Turne from your wicked wayes, and kepe my commaundementes and my statutes, according to all the law which I commaunded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my seruauntes the prophetes.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, [and by] all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments [and] my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, Turn you from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And Jehovah testifieth against Israel, and against Judah, by the hand of every prophet, and every seer, saying, `Turn back from your evil ways, and keep My commands, My statutes, according to all the law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent unto you by the hand of My servants the prophets;'

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Yet Jehovah testified unto Israel, and unto Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And he gave witness to Israel and Judah, by every prophet and seer, saying, Come back from your evil ways, and do my orders and keep my rules, and be guided by the law which I gave to your fathers and sent to you by my servants the prophets.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets."

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  The LORD solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers,“Turn back from your evil ways; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law. I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands.”

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 9:9 : 9 (Previously in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said thus, Come, let us go to the seer: for he who is now called a Prophet was previously called a Seer.)
• Jer 18:11 : 11 Now therefore go, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you: return now everyone from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
• Jer 35:15 : 15 I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and you shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me.
• Ezek 18:31 : 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?
• Jer 7:3-7 : 3 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will allow you to dwell in this place. 4 Do not trust in deceptive words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these. 5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your deeds; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor; 6 If you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your harm; 7 Then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, forever and ever.
• Neh 9:29-30 : 29 You testified against them, that You might bring them back to Your law. Yet they acted proudly and did not heed Your commandments but sinned against Your judgments, which if a man does, he shall live by them. And they shrugged their shoulders, stiffened their necks, and would not hear. 30 Yet for many years You had patience with them and testified against them by Your Spirit in Your prophets. Yet they would not give ear; therefore, You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
• Ps 50:7 : 7 Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, even your God.
• Ps 81:8-9 : 8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify to you; O Israel, if you will listen to me; 9 There shall be no strange god among you; nor shall you worship any foreign god.
• Isa 1:5-9 : 5 Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor soothed with ointment. 7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. 8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. 9 Except the LORD of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom, and we would have been like Gomorrah. 10 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah. 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? says the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals; and I delight not in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of goats. 12 When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts? 13 Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot endure; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble to me; I am weary to bear them. 15 And when you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: indeed, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. 16 Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land: 20 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it. 21 How the faithful city has become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. 22 Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water: 23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they do not judge the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come to them. 24 Therefore says the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease myself of my adversaries, and avenge myself of my enemies:
• 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.
• Jer 3:8-9 : 8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also. 9 And it came to pass through the frivolity of her whoredom, that she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. 10 And yet for all this, her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to me with her whole heart, but in pretension, says the LORD. 11 And the LORD said to me, Backsliding Israel has justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
• Jer 5:29-31 : 29 Shall I not visit for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? 30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end thereof?
• Jer 7:22-23 : 22 For I did not speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: 23 But this thing I commanded them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people: and walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.
• Jer 25:4-5 : 4 And the LORD has sent to you all His servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but you have not listened, nor inclined your ear to hear. 5 They said, 'Turn now every one from his evil way and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and to your fathers forever and ever:
• Jer 26:4-6 : 4 And you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you, 5 To listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I have sent to you, rising early and sending them, but you have not listened; 6 Then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
• 1 Sam 12:7-9 : 7 Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers. 8 When Jacob came into Egypt, and your fathers cried to the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place. 9 And when they forgot the LORD their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them. 10 And they cried to the LORD, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you. 11 And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you dwelled safe. 12 And when you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, you said to me, No; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God was your king. 13 Now therefore behold the king whom you have chosen, and whom you have desired! and, behold, the LORD has set a king over you. 14 If you will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both you and also the king that reigns over you continue following the LORD your God: 15 But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers.
• 2 Kgs 17:23 : 23 until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away from their own land to Assyria, as it is to this day.
• 1 Chr 29:29 : 29 Now the acts of King David, first and last, indeed, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,
• 2 Chr 36:15-16 : 15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent warnings to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending them, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. 16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
• Deut 4:26 : 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land where you go over Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
• Deut 8:19 : 19 And it shall be, if you do at all forget the LORD your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.
• Deut 31:21 : 21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles have befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.
• Josh 23:16 : 16 When you have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you.
• Judg 6:10 : 10 And I said unto you, I am the LORD your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But you have not obeyed my voice.
• Judg 10:11-14 : 11 And the LORD said to the children of Israel, Did I not deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines? 12 The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites oppressed you; and you cried out to Me, and I delivered you from their hand. 13 Yet you have forsaken Me and served other gods; therefore, I will deliver you no more. 14 Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen; let them deliver you in your time of distress.
• Hos 4:15 : 15 Though you, Israel, play the harlot, do not let Judah offend; do not come to Gilgal, nor go up to Bethaven, nor swear, 'As the LORD lives.'
• Hos 14:1 : 1 O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity.
• Zech 1:3-6 : 3 Therefore say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn to Me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will turn to you, says the LORD of hosts. 4 Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds. But they did not hear nor listen to Me, says the LORD. 5 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? 6 But My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? Then they returned and said: Just as the LORD of hosts determined to do to us, according to our ways and according to our deeds, so He has dealt with us.
• Acts 20:21 : 21 testifying to Jews, and also to Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 2 Pet 3:9 : 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is patient toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
• Jer 42:19 : 19 The LORD has said concerning you, O you remnant of Judah; Do not go into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.