Verse 5

Although my house is not so with God; yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although He does not make it grow.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Selv ikke mitt hus er i den posisjon hos Gud; for Han har lovet meg en evig pakt som er grunnlagt i alt og trygg for meg. Vil Han ikke la min frelse og glede vokse?

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Skjønt mitt hus ikke er slik med Gud; likevel har Han gjort med meg en evig pakt, ordnet og sikret i alt: For dette er hele min frelse, og hele mitt ønske, selv om Han ikke lar det vokse.

• Norsk King James

  Selv om mitt hus ikke er slik med Gud, har han likevel inngått en evig pakt med meg, ordnet i alle forhold, og den er trygg. For dette er min frelse og alt jeg begjærer, selv om han ikke lar det vokse.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  For mitt hus står ikke slik med Gud; han har laget en evig pakt med meg, ordnet og bevart på alle måter; for han skal være all min frelse og all min glede, selv om han ennå ikke lar det vokse frem.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  For min husstand er ikke slik med Gud, men han har opprettet en evig pakt for meg, ordnet og bevart i alt, for all min frelse og all min glede. Skulle han ikke la det gro?

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Selv om mitt hus ikke er slik med Gud, har han likevel opprettet en evig pakt med meg, ordnet i alt og sikkert: For dette er all min frelse og all min lengsel, selv om han ikke lar det vokse.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Selv om mitt hus ikke nyter slik nærhet til Gud, inngikk han allikevel en evig pakt med meg, fastsatt i alle ting og urokkelig. For dette er all min frelse og alt jeg lengter etter, selv om han ikke lar den vokse.

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

  Selv om mitt hus ikke er slik med Gud, har han likevel opprettet en evig pakt med meg, ordnet i alt og sikkert: For dette er all min frelse og all min lengsel, selv om han ikke lar det vokse.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  For har ikke Gud bygd mitt hus slik at det står? For han har gjort en evig pakt med meg, velordnet i alle ting, og fastsatt. Skal han ikke få min frelse til å vokse frem, og all min glede?

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Is not my house right with God? He has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For He is all my salvation and all my desire, and He will not fail to make it grow.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Slik er ikke mitt hus hos Gud, for han har gjort en evig pakt med meg, fullstendig ordnet og trygg. For han skal la det vokse, hele min frelse og alt mitt ønske.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Thi mit Huus er ikke saa med Gud; thi han haver sat mig en evig Pagt, som er ordentligen beskikket i alle (Maader) og bevaret; thi han skal være al min Salighed og al (min) Lyst, enddog han ikke (endnu) lader (ham) opvoxe.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Selv om mitt hus ikke er slik hos Gud, har han likevel inngått med meg en evig pakt, ordnet i alle ting og sikker; for dette er hele min frelse og mitt ønske, selv om han ikke gir det vekst.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Sannelig, mitt hus er ikke slik hos Gud; likevel har han inngått en evig pakt med meg, ordnet i alle ting og sikker: for det er all min frelse og alt mitt ønske, selv om han ikke lar det vokse.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  For mitt hus står ikke slik for Gud, men han har gjort en evig pakt med meg, ordnet og bevart alt; for hele min frelse og hele mitt ønske, for han har ikke latt det springe opp.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  For mitt hus står ikke slik for Gud; likevel har han inngått en evig pakt med meg, ordnet i alle ting og sikker. For dette er all min frelse og alt mitt håp, selv om han ikke lar det spire.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  For er ikke mitt hus slik med Gud? For han har gjort en evig pakt med meg, velordnet og sikret: som for min frelse og alle mine ønsker, skal han ikke la det vokse?

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  euen so shal my house be with God. For he hath made an euerlastinge couenaunt with me, well appoynted on euery syde and sure. For this is all my health & pleasure, that it shal growe.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For so shall not mine house be with God: for he hath made with me an euerlasting couenant, perfite in all pointes, and sure: therefore all mine health and whole desire is, that he will not make it growe so.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For so shal not my house be with God: For he hath made with me an euerlasting couenaunt, perfect and sure in all poyntes: and this is truly all my health, and all my desyre, that it growe, but not as grasse.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Although my house [be] not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all [things], and sure: for [this is] all my salvation, and all [my] desire, although he make [it] not to grow.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Most assuredly my house is not so with God; Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things, and sure: For it is all my salvation, and all [my] desire, Although he doesn't make it grow.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  For -- not so `is' my house with God; For -- a covenant age-during He made with me, Arranged in all things, and kept; For -- all my salvation, and all desire, For -- He hath not caused `it' to spring up.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Verily my house is not so with God; Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things, and sure: For it is all my salvation, and all [my] desire, Although he maketh it not to grow.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase?

• World English Bible (2000)

  Most certainly my house is not so with God, yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all [my] desire, although he doesn't make it grow.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  My dynasty is approved by God, for he has made a perpetual covenant with me, arranged in all its particulars and secured. He always delivers me, and brings all I desire to fruition.

Referenced Verses

• Isa 55:3 : 3 Incline your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David.
• Isa 9:6-7 : 6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice from now on even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
• 2 Sam 7:14-16 : 14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: 15 But my mercy shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you. 16 And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you: your throne shall be established forever.
• Isa 11:1 : 1 And there shall come forth a rod from the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow from his roots:
• Isa 27:6 : 6 Those who come from Jacob shall take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
• Isa 61:8 : 8 For I, the Lord, love justice, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
• Jer 32:40 : 40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
• Jer 33:25-26 : 25 Thus says the LORD: If my covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth, 26 Then I will cast away the descendants of Jacob and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his descendants to be rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
• Ezek 37:26 : 26 Moreover, I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore.
• Amos 9:11 : 11 In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old.
• Acts 13:34 : 34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said this way, I will give you the sure mercies of David.
• 1 Cor 3:6-7 : 6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the growth. 7 So then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that waters; but God that gives the growth.
• Heb 6:19 : 19 This hope we have as an anchor for the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the inner sanctuary behind the veil,
• Heb 13:20 : 20 Now may the God of peace, who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
• 1 Sam 2:35 : 35 And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, that shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before my anointed forever.
• 1 Sam 25:28 : 28 Please forgive the trespass of your maidservant, for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the battles of the LORD, and evil has not been found in you all your days.
• 2 Sam 7:18 : 18 Then King David went in and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who am I, O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?
• 2 Sam 12:10 : 10 Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house; because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.
• 2 Sam 13:14 : 14 However, he would not listen to her voice; but being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.
• 2 Sam 13:28 : 28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Watch now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, Strike Amnon; then kill him, do not fear: have not I commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.
• 2 Sam 18:14 : 14 Then Joab said, I cannot linger thus with you. And he took three spears in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was still alive in the midst of the oak.
• 1 Kgs 1:5 : 5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king; and he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
• 1 Kgs 2:24-25 : 24 Now therefore, as the Lord lives, who has established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house, as He promised, Adonijah shall be put to death today. 25 And King Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him and he died.
• 1 Kgs 11:6-8 : 6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and did not fully follow the LORD, as David his father did. 7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the hill before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon. 8 And likewise he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
• 1 Kgs 11:38 : 38 And it shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.
• 1 Kgs 12:14 : 14 and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke; my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
• 1 Chr 17:11-14 : 11 And it shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will raise up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom. 12 He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. 13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him who was before you: 14 But I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever: and his throne shall be established forevermore.
• Ps 27:4 : 4 One thing I have desired of the LORD, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in His temple.
• Ps 62:2 : 2 He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be greatly moved.
• Ps 63:1-3 : 1 O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where there is no water; 2 To see your power and your glory, as I have seen you in the sanctuary. 3 Because your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
• Ps 73:25-26 : 25 Whom have I in heaven but You? And there is none upon earth that I desire beside You. 26 My flesh and my heart fail; but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
• Ps 89:3 : 3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant,
• Ps 89:28-29 : 28 My mercy I will keep for him forevermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. 29 His seed also I will make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
• Ps 119:81 : 81 CAPH. My soul faints for Your salvation, but I hope in Your word.
• Isa 4:2 : 2 In that day the branch of the LORD shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and lovely for those who have escaped of Israel.
• Isa 7:14 : 14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.