Verse 16

Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, says thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the farmer to mourning, and such as are skilled in lamentation to wailing.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Derfor sier Herren Gud, hærskarenes Gud: I alle byene skal det være klage, og på alle gatene skal folk si: 'Ve, ve!' De skal kalle bøndene til sorg, og de som klager.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Derfor, sier Herren Gud, hærskarenes Gud, slik: Klagesang skal være i alle gater; og i alle veier skal de si: Ve! Ve! Og de skal kalle bønder til sorg, og de som er dyktige i klagesang til klage.

• Norsk King James

  Derfor sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, slik: Klage skal lyde i alle gater, og de skal si i alle veiene: Ve! Ve! og de skal kalle på jordbrukere til gråt, og de som er dyktige til å klage, til sorg.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Derfor sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud: Det skal være klagerop i alle gater, og på alle plasser skal de si: Ve, ve! De skal kalle bonden til sorg, og klagerop skal være hos dem som er dyktige i klagesang.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Derfor, slik sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, Herren: På alle gater skal det være klagesang, og på alle veier skal man si 'Ve, ve!' De skal kalle bonden til sørgefest, og profesjonelle sørgere til klagesang.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Derfor sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, Herren: Klagerop skal høres i alle gater; og de skal si i alle veier: Ve, ve! De skal kalle bonden til sorg, og de som er dyktige i klagesang til klage.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Derfor sier Herren, himmelens hærers Gud: I alle gater skal det runge klagesang; på hver hovedvei skal man rope: 'Ve, ve!' – og bønder skal kalles til sorg, og de som er dyktige i sorgens kunst, til klaging.

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

  Derfor sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, Herren: Klagerop skal høres i alle gater; og de skal si i alle veier: Ve, ve! De skal kalle bonden til sorg, og de som er dyktige i klagesang til klage.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Derfor sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, Herren: I alle torg skal det være klagesang, og i alle gater skal de si: Ve, ve! De skal kalle bonden til sorg, og klagesang over dem som kan sørgesang.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Hosts, the Lord says: There will be wailing in all the open squares, and in all the streets they will say, 'Woe, woe!' They will summon the farmer to mourning and professional mourners to lamentation.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Derfor sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, Herren: På alle torg skal det være sørgesang, og på alle gatene skal de si: 'Ve, ve!' De kaller bonden til klage, og de sørger over dem som kan sørgesang.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Derfor, saa sagde Herren, den Herre Zebaoths Gud: Der (skal være) Hylen paa alle Gader, og de skulle sige i alle Stræder: Ho, ho! og de skulle kalde en Agermand til Sorg, og Hylen skal være hos dem, som forstaae sig paa (at holde) en Klage.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lentation to wailing.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Derfor sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, Herren: I alle gater skal det være klagesang, og på alle veier skal de si: Ve, ve! De skal kalle bonden til sorg og de som kan klagesanger til jammer.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Derfor sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, Herren: «Det skal være klage i alle brede gater; Og de skal si på alle gatene, 'Ve! Ve!' Og de skal kalle bonden til sorg, Og de som kan klagesang til klage.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Derfor sier Jehova, hærskarenes Gud, Herren: 'På alle torg er det klagesang, og i alle gater roper de: «Å, å», og de kaller bonden til sorg, og de som er skikket til klage til jamring.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Derfor sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, Herren: Det skal være klage i alle de brede gatene; og de skal si i alle gatene: Ve, ve! Og de skal kalle bonden til sorg, og de som er dyktige i klagesang til klage.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Derfor sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, Herren: Det vil bli gråt på alle åpne plasser; og i alle gater vil de rope, sorg! sorg! Og de vil hente bonden til sorgen, og de som lager triste sanger, til å gi klagerop.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Yff no (sayeth the LORDE God, the God of hoostes) there shal be mourninge in all stretes, yee they shal saye i euery strete: alas, alas. They shall call the housbonde man to lamentacio, and soch as can mourne, to mournynge.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Therfore the Lord God of hosts, the Lord saith thus, Mourning shalbe in all streetes: & they shal say in al the hie wayes, Alas, alas: & they shal call the husbandman to lamentation, and such as can mourne, to mourning.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Therfore the Lorde God of hoastes the Lord sayth thus, Mourning shalbe in all streetes, and they shall say in al the hye wayes, Alas, alas: and they shall cal the husbandman to lamentation, and such as can mourne, to mourning.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing [shall be] in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the Lord: "Wailing will be in all the broad ways; And they will say in all the streets, 'Alas! Alas!' And they will call the farmer to mourning, And those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Therefore, thus said Jehovah, God of Hosts, the Lord, In all broad places `is' lamentation, And in all out-places they say, `Alas, alas,' And called the husbandman to mourning, And to lamentation the skilful of wailing.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall be in all the broad ways; and they shall say in all the streets, Alas! Alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to wailing.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  So these are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the Lord: There will be weeping in all the open spaces; and in all the streets they will say, Sorrow! sorrow! and they will get in the farmer to the weeping, and the makers of sad songs to give cries of grief.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord: "Wailing will be in all the broad ways; and they will say in all the streets, 'Alas! Alas!' and they will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Because of Israel’s sins this is what the Lord, the LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, says:“In all the squares there will be wailing, in all the streets they will mourn the dead. They will tell the field workers to lament and the professional mourners to wail.

Referenced Verses

• Joel 1:11 : 11 Be ashamed, you farmers; howl, you vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished.
• Jer 9:17-20 : 17 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skilled women, that they may come: 18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, 'How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.' 20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.
• Jer 9:10 : 10 For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled; they are gone.
• Joel 1:8 : 8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
• Isa 15:2-5 : 2 He has gone up to Bajith and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall wail over Nebo and over Medeba; on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off. 3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth; on the tops of their houses and in their streets, everyone shall wail, weeping abundantly. 4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even to Jahaz; therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous to him. 5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee to Zoar, like a heifer of three years old: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping shall they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
• Isa 15:8 : 8 For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab; its wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beerelim.
• Isa 22:12 : 12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth.
• Jer 4:31 : 31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, and the anguish as of her that brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewails herself, that spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
• Joel 1:14 : 14 Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
• Amos 3:13 : 13 Hear, and testify in the house of Jacob, says the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
• Amos 5:27 : 27 Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
• Amos 8:10 : 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon all waists, and baldness upon every head; I will make it like mourning for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.
• Mic 1:8 : 8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the jackals, and mourning as the ostriches.
• Mic 2:4 : 4 In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We are utterly spoiled: he has changed the portion of my people; how has he removed it from me! Turning away, he has divided our fields.
• Rev 18:10 : 10 Standing far off for fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour your judgment has come.
• Rev 18:15-16 : 15 The merchants of these things, who became rich by her, shall stand far off for fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, 16 And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and adorned with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
• Rev 18:19 : 19 And they threw dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, in which all who had ships on the sea were made rich by her wealth! for in one hour she is made desolate.