Verse 2

You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Bare dere har jeg kjent blant alle folkeslagene på jorden; derfor vil jeg stille dere til ansvar for alle deres synder.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Bare dere har jeg kjent blant alle jordens familier. Derfor vil jeg straffe dere for alle deres misgjerninger.

• Norsk King James

  Bare dere har jeg kjent blant alle folkene på jorden; derfor vil jeg straffe dere for alle deres synder.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Bare dere har jeg kjent blant alle slekter på jorden; derfor vil jeg straffe dere for alle deres misgjerninger.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Bare dere har jeg kjent blant alle slektene på jorden; derfor vil jeg straffe dere for alle deres synder.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Dere alene har jeg utvalgt blant alle slekter på jorden; derfor vil jeg straffe dere for alle deres misgjerninger.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Du er den eneste jeg har kjent blant alle jordens slekter, og derfor vil jeg straffe dere for alle deres ugjerninger.

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

  Dere alene har jeg utvalgt blant alle slekter på jorden; derfor vil jeg straffe dere for alle deres misgjerninger.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Bare dere har jeg kjent blant alle jordens familier; derfor vil jeg hjemsøke dere for alle deres misgjerninger.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  You only have I known among all the families of the earth; therefore, I will punish you for all your iniquities.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Bare dere har jeg kjent blant alle jordens slekter; derfor vil jeg straffe dere for alle deres synder.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Jeg haver aleneste kjendt eder fremfor alle Slægter paa Jorden; derfor vil jeg (og) hjemsøge over eder alle eders Misgjerninger.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  You only have I known of all the filies of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Bare dere har jeg kjent blant alle jordens slekter; derfor vil jeg straffe dere for alle deres synder.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  "Kun dere har jeg utvalgt av alle slektene på jorden. Derfor vil jeg straffe dere for alle deres synder."

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Bare dere har jeg kjent blant alle jordens familier, derfor legger jeg all deres synd på dere.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Bare dere har jeg kjent av alle jordens familier; derfor vil jeg straffe dere for alle deres misgjerninger.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Bare dere av alle jordens familier har jeg tatt meg av; derfor vil jeg straffe dere for alle deres synder.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  You only haue I accepted from all the generacions off the earth: therfore will I vyset you in all youre wickednesses.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  You onely haue I knowen of all the families of the earth: therefore I will visite you for all your iniquities.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  You only haue I knowen of al the families of the earth, therfore I will visite you for all your iniquities.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  "You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins."

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Only you I have known of all families of the land, Therefore I charge on you all your iniquities.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  You only of all the families of the earth have I taken care of: for this reason I will send punishment on you for all your sins.

• World English Bible (2000)

  "You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins."

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  “I have chosen you alone from all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your sins.”

Referenced Verses

• Exod 19:5-6 : 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to me above all people; for all the earth is mine: 6 And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.
• Deut 7:6 : 6 For you are a holy people unto the LORD your God: the LORD your God has chosen you to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
• 1 Pet 4:17 : 17 For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begins with us, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?
• Rom 2:9 : 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
• Deut 10:15 : 15 Only the LORD delighted in your fathers to love them, and he chose their descendants after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
• Deut 26:18 : 18 And the LORD has declared you this day to be his special people, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments;
• Deut 32:9 : 9 For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the place of his inheritance.
• Ps 147:19 : 19 He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his judgments to Israel.
• Isa 63:19 : 19 We are yours: you never ruled over them; they were not called by your name.
• Jer 1:15 : 15 For behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the LORD; and they shall come, and every one shall set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls all around, and against all the cities of Judah.
• Jer 9:25 : 25 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will punish all those who are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
• Jer 10:25 : 25 Pour out your fury upon the heathen that do not know you, and upon the families that do not call on your name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
• Jer 11:22 : 22 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:
• Jer 13:21 : 21 What will you say when he shall punish you? For you have taught them to be captains, and as chief over you: shall sorrows not take hold of you, as a woman in labor?
• Jer 14:10 : 10 Thus says the LORD to this people, 'Thus they have loved to wander, they have not restrained their feet; therefore the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their iniquity and punish their sins.'
• Ezek 9:6 : 6 Utterly slay old and young, both maidens, and little children, and women: but do not come near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began with the elders who were before the house.
• Ezek 20:36-38 : 36 As I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, says the Lord GOD. 37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant: 38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and those who transgress against me: I will bring them out of the country where they stay, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and you shall know that I am the LORD.
• Dan 9:12 : 12 And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great calamity: for under the whole heaven, such as has been done upon Jerusalem has not been done.
• Gen 10:32 : 32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. And by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
• Matt 11:20-24 : 20 Then he began to reproach the cities where most of his mighty works were done, because they did not repent: 21 Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment than for you. 23 And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, shall be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. 24 But I say to you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you.
• Luke 12:47-48 : 47 And that servant, who knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. 48 But he that did not know, and committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For to whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
• Acts 17:26 : 26 And has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings;
• Hos 2:13 : 13 And I will punish her for the days of the Baals, when she burned incense to them, and she adorned herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me, says the LORD.
• Hos 8:13 : 13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of my offerings, and eat it, but the LORD does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity and visit their sins. They shall return to Egypt.
• Hos 9:9 : 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
• Nah 3:4 : 4 Because of the multitude of the harlotries of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of sorceries, who sells nations through her harlotries, and families through her sorceries.
• Zech 14:17-18 : 17 And it shall be, that whoever will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. 18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, with which the LORD will smite the nations that come not up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.