Verse 8

Seek him that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; that calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:

Other Translations

  • GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

    Han som skapte Stjernen og Orion, som gjør mørket til dag og natten til mørke, som kaller på havets vann og øser dem ut over jorden – Herren er hans navn.

  • Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

    Søk ham som skapte Sjustjernene og Orion, som forvandler dødsskyggen til morgen og gjør dagen mørk som natt; han som kaller havets vann og heller dem ut over jordens overflate: Herren er hans navn.

  • Norsk King James

    Søk han som skaper de syv stjerner og Orion, som forvandler dødens skygge til morgen og gjør dagen mørk som natt; han som kaller på havets vann og utøser dem over jordens overflate; Herren er hans navn.

  • Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

    Han som skapte Sjustjernen og Orion, han som forvandler dødens skygge til morgen og gjør dagen mørk som natten, han som kaller på havets vann og utøser det over jorden — Herren er hans navn.

  • Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

    Han som skaper stjernebildene Kimah og Kesil og forvandler dødsskygge til morgen og gjør dagen til nattmørke, som kaller vannene i havet og heller dem ut over jorden - Herren er hans navn.

  • Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

    Søk ham som skapte de syv stjerner og Orion, som forvandler dødens skygge til morgen og gjør dagen mørk som natt; som kaller frem vannene i havet og heller dem ut over jordens flate: Herren er hans navn.

  • o3-mini KJV Norsk

    Søk ham som skaper de syv stjernene og Orion, som forvandler dødsens skygge til morgengry og gjør dagen mørk med natten; han som tilkaller havets vann og øser dem ut over jordens overflate – hans navn er Herren.

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

    Søk ham som skapte de syv stjerner og Orion, som forvandler dødens skygge til morgen og gjør dagen mørk som natt; som kaller frem vannene i havet og heller dem ut over jordens flate: Herren er hans navn.

  • Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

    Det er han som gjorde Pleiadene og Orion, som forvandler dødsskyggen til morgen og gjør dagen til natt, han som kaller vannene i havet og heller dem ut over jorden, Herren er hans navn.

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns deep darkness into morning and darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth—the Lord is his name.

  • biblecontext

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  • GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

    Han som laget stjernebildene Plejadene og Orion, og som forvandler dødsskygge til morgen og gjør dagen mørk som natten, han kaller vannene i havet og heller dem ut over jordens overflate, Herren er hans navn.

  • Original Norsk Bibel 1866

    Den, som gjør Syvstjernen og Orion, og omvender Dødens Skygge til Morgenen, og gjør Dagen, at den bliver mørk som Natten, den, som kalder ad Havets Vande og udøser dem ovenpaa Jorden, — Herren er hans Navn,

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his ne:

  • KJV 1769 norsk

    Søk han som skapte stjernebildene Sjustjerner og Orion, som forvandler dødens skygge til morgen og som gjør dagen mørk som natt. Han som kaller på havets vann og heller dem ut over jordens overflate. Herren er hans navn.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Webster

    Søk ham som skapte Pleiadene og Orion, Som gjør skyggen av død til morgen, Og gjør dagen mørk med natt; Som kaller på havets vann, Og heller det ut over jorden, Herren er hans navn,

  • Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

    Han som skapte stjernebildene Kimah og Kesil, og som gjør nattemørket til morgen, og dagen mørk som natt, som kaller havets vann og lar det strømme over jordens overflate—Jehova er hans navn.

  • Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

    søk ham som skapte pleiadene og Orion, som forvandler dødsskygge til morgen og gjør dagen mørk som natt; som kaller vannene fra havet og lar dem strømme over jorden – Herren er hans navn.

  • Norsk oversettelse av BBE

    Søk han som skapte Orion og Pleiadene, han som gjør dypet til morgen, og som gjør dag til natt; hans røst går ut til havets vann, og han sender dem ut over jordens flate: Herren er hans navn;

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    The LORDE maketh the vij. starres and the Oryons, he turneth the night in to daye, and off the daye he maketh darcknesse. He calleth ye waters of the see, and poureth them out vpon the playne grounde: the LORDE is his name.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    He maketh Pleiades, and Orion, and he turneth the shadowe of death into the morning, and he maketh the day darke as night: he calleth the waters of the sea, and powreth them out vpon the open earth: the Lord is his Name.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    He maketh the seuen starres and Orion, and he turneth the shadowe of death into the morning, and he maketh the day darke as night: he calleth the waters of the sea, and powreth them out vpon the open earth, the Lorde is his name.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    [Seek him] that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD [is] his name:

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, And turns the shadow of death into the morning, And makes the day dark with night; Who calls for the waters of the sea, And pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    The maker of Kimah and Kesil, And the turner to morning of death-shade, And day `as' night He hath made dark, Who is calling to the waters of the sea, And poureth them on the face of the earth, Jehovah `is' His name;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    [ seek him] that maketh the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth (Jehovah is his name);

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;

  • World English Bible (2000)

    seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    (But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion; he can turn the darkness into morning and daylight into night. He summons the water of the seas and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The LORD is his name!

Referenced Verses

  • Amos 4:13 : 13 For behold, he who forms the mountains, creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.
  • Job 9:9 : 9 He makes Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
  • Amos 8:9 : 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, declares the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in broad daylight:
  • Amos 9:6 : 6 It is he who builds his chambers in the heaven, and has founded his troop in the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.
  • Ps 104:20 : 20 You make darkness, and it is night: in which all the beasts of the forest creep forth.
  • Job 12:22 : 22 He reveals deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
  • Job 38:31-32 : 31 Can you bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the cords of Orion? 32 Can you bring out Mazzaroth in its season? Or can you guide the Great Bear with its cubs?
  • Job 38:34 : 34 Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that an abundance of water may cover you?
  • Ps 104:6-9 : 6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. 7 At Your rebuke they fled; at the voice of Your thunder they hurried away. 8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys to the place which You have founded for them. 9 You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they may not return to cover the earth.
  • Job 37:13 : 13 He causes it to come, whether for correction, for his land, or for mercy.
  • Job 38:12-13 : 12 Have you commanded the morning since your days began; and caused the dawn to know its place, 13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
  • Gen 7:11-20 : 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 On the same day, Noah entered, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; 14 They, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort. 15 And they went into Noah into the ark, two by two of all flesh in which is the breath of life. 16 And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in. 17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose above the earth. 18 And the waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark moved on the surface of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered. 20 The waters covered them fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.
  • Exod 10:21-23 : 21 And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness which may be felt. 22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days. 23 They saw not one another, nor did any rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
  • Exod 14:24-28 : 24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians, 25 And took off their chariot wheels, so that they drove them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians. 26 And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. 27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. 28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; not so much as one of them remained.
  • 1 Kgs 18:44-45 : 44 And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, a little cloud arises out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say to Ahab, Prepare your chariot, and get down, that the rain does not stop you. 45 And it came to pass in the meantime, that the sky became black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
  • Ps 105:28 : 28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they did not rebel against his word.
  • Ps 107:10-14 : 10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron; 11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and despised the counsel of the Most High: 12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labor; they fell down, and there was none to help. 13 Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands apart.
  • Isa 42:16 : 16 And I will bring the blind by a way they do not know; I will lead them in paths they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
  • Isa 59:10 : 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon as in the night; we are in desolate places like dead men.
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 The people which sat in darkness saw a great light, and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light has sprung up.
  • Luke 1:79 : 79 To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.