Verse 7

You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  De forvrenger rettferdighet til bitterhet og kaster sannheten ned i jorden.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Dere som gjør dom til malurt og forlater rettferdighet på jorden,

• Norsk King James

  Dere som forvrenger rett til malurt og vender rettferdigheten bort fra landet,

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Dere som gjør rett til bitt og lar rettferdighet ligge på jorden.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Dere som forvandler rett til malurt og kaster rettferdighet til jorden.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Dere som forvandler rett til malurt og lar rettferdighet ligge på jorden,

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Dere som forvandler dom til bitterhet og forlater rettferdigheten i landet,

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

  Dere som forvandler rett til malurt og lar rettferdighet ligge på jorden,

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  De som forvandler rett til malurt, og lar rettferdigheten falle til jorden.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  You who turn justice to bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground—

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Dere som forvandler rett til malurt og kaster rettferdigheten til jorden!

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  I, som omvende Ret til Malurt, og lade Retfærdighed ligge paa Jorden.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Dere som gjør rettferdighet bitter som malurt og lar rettferdighet falle til jorden,

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Dere som forvandler rettferdighet til malurt, Og kaster rettferd til jorden:

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Dere som gjør dom til malurt og kaster rettferdighet til jorden.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Dere som vender rettferdighet til malurt og kaster rettferd til jorden,

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Dere som gjør rettferd til en bitter ting, og trykker ned rettferdigheten til jorden;

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Ye turne the lawe to wormwod, and cast downe rightuousnes vnto the grounde.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  They turne iudgement to wormewood, and leaue off righteousnes in the earth.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  They turne iudgement to wormewood, and forsake righteousnesse in the earth.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  You who turn justice to wormwood, And cast down righteousness to the earth:

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Ye who are turning to wormwood judgment, And righteousness to the earth have put down,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;

• World English Bible (2000)

  You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  The Israelites turn justice into bitterness; they throw what is fair and right to the ground.

Referenced Verses

• Amos 6:12 : 12 Shall horses run on the rock? Will one plow there with oxen? For you have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
• Hos 10:4 : 4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springs up as poison in the furrows of the field.
• Zeph 1:6 : 6 And those that have turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for Him.
• Amos 5:11-12 : 11 Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them. 12 For I know your many transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
• Hab 1:12-14 : 12 Are You not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, You have appointed them for judgment; O mighty God, You have established them for correction. 13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil and cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treacherously and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours a man more righteous than he? 14 You make men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler over them.
• Deut 29:18 : 18 Lest there should be among you a man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears bitter poison and wormwood;
• Ps 36:3 : 3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.
• Ps 125:5 : 5 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them away with the workers of iniquity; peace shall be upon Israel.
• Isa 1:23 : 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.
• Isa 5:7 : 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry.
• Isa 10:1 : 1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and who write out oppressive laws they have prescribed;
• Isa 59:13-14 : 13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14 And judgment is turned backward, and justice stands far off: for truth has fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
• Ezek 3:20 : 20 Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.
• Ezek 18:24 : 24 But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.
• Ezek 33:12-13 : 12 Therefore, son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sins. 13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trusts in his own righteousness, and commits iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he has committed, he shall die for it.
• Ezek 33:18 : 18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall die because of it.