Verse 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.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Jeg vil forvandle festene deres til sorg og alle sangene deres til klagesanger. Jeg vil kle dem i sekk og la hodene være nakne. Det vil bli som sorgen over et enebarn, og dagen vil ende i bitterhet.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Jeg vil forvandle deres høytider til sorg, og alle deres sanger til klagesang; jeg vil kle alle hofter i sekkestrie og gjøre alle hoder skallet. Jeg vil gjøre det som sorgen over en enebarn, og slutten på det som en bitter dag.

• Norsk King James

  Og jeg vil forvandle festene deres til gråt, og alle sangene deres til sorg; jeg vil føre sekk over alle liv, og gjøre hodene nakne; og jeg vil gjøre det som sorgen over en eneste sønn, og enden av dette som en bitter dag.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Jeg skal forvandle høytidene deres til sorg og alle sangene deres til klager, legge sekkekled seler på alle hofter og gjøre hvert hode skallet. Det skal bli som sorg over den eneste sønn, og slutten blir en bitter dag.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Jeg vil forvandle deres høytider til sorg og alle deres sanger til klagesang. Jeg vil kle alle midjer i sekkestrie og gjøre hvert hode skallet. Jeg vil gjøre det som en sorg over en eneste sønn, og enden på det som en bitter dag.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Jeg vil gjøre deres fester til sorg, og alle deres sanger til klage; og jeg vil kle alle i sekkestrie og barbere hvert hode. Jeg skal gjøre det som sorg over en enebarn, og slutten som en bitter dag.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Jeg vil gjøre deres festligheter om til sorg, og alle deres sanger til klagesanger; jeg vil ta på alle sekk, og hver hode skal preges av skallethet; det skal bli som sorgen over en enebarn, med en slutt som en bitter dag.

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

  Jeg vil gjøre deres fester til sorg, og alle deres sanger til klage; og jeg vil kle alle i sekkestrie og barbere hvert hode. Jeg skal gjøre det som sorg over en enebarn, og slutten som en bitter dag.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Jeg vil forvandle deres høytider til sorg og alle deres sanger til klagesang. Jeg vil kle alle midjer i sekkestrie og alle hoder i skallethet. Jeg vil gjøre det som sorgen over en eneste sønn, og det ender som en bitter dag.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  'I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cover everyone's waists with sackcloth and shave every head bald. I will make it like mourning for an only son and its end like a bitter day.'

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Jeg skal forvandle deres fester til sorg og alle deres sanger til klagesanger. Jeg skal kle alle i sekkestrie og gjøre dem skallet. Jeg skal gjøre det som sorgen over en enebarn, og slutten skal bli som en bitter dag.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Og jeg vil omvende eders Høitider til Sorg, og alle eders Sange til Klagemaal, og føre Sække op over alle Lænder, og gjøre hvert Hoved skaldet; og jeg vil give det Sorrig som over en eneste Søn, og det Sidste deraf skal være som en bitter Dag.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Jeg vil gjøre deres fester til sorg, og alle deres sanger til klage; jeg vil kle alle med sekkelerret og få fullstendig skallethet på alle hoder. Jeg vil gjøre det som sorgen over en enebåren sønn, og slutten derav som en bitter dag.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Jeg vil gjøre deres fester til sorg, Og alle deres sanger til klagesang. Jeg vil kle dere med sekker over alle kroppene, Og gjøre dere skallet på alle hoder. Jeg vil gjøre det som sorgen over en eneste sønn, Og enden av det som en bitter dag.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Jeg vil gjøre deres høytider til sorg og alle deres sanger til klage, kle alle i sekkestrie og gjøre alle hoder skallet. Jeg vil gjøre det som når man sørger over en enebarn, og enden som en bitter dag.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Og jeg vil forvandle deres fester til sorg, og alle deres sanger til klagesang; og jeg skal kle alle i sekkestrie, og hver hode skal være skallet; og jeg vil gjøre det som sørging for en enebarn, og enden derav som en bitter dag.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Dine fester vil bli til sorg og alle dine melodier til klagesanger; alle vil kle seg i sekkestrie, og håret på hvert hode vil bli klippet; jeg vil gjøre gråten som etter en eneste sønn, og slutten av det som en bitter dag.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Youre hye feastes will I turne to sorow, and youre songes to mournynge: I wil brynge sack cloth vpo all backes, & baldnes vpo euery heade: yee soch a mournynge wil I sende them, as is made vpon an only begotten sonne, and they shall haue a miserable ende.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And I will turne your feastes into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring sackcloth vpon all loynes, and baldnes vpon euery head: and I will make it as the mourning of an onely sonne, and the ende thereof as a bitter day.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And I will turne your feastes into mourning, and all your songues into lamentation: and I will bring sackecloth vpon all loynes, and baldnesse vpon euery head, & I will make it as the mourning of an only sonne, and the end therof as a bitter day.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only [son], and the end thereof as a bitter day.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; And I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, And baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, And the end of it like a bitter day.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And have turned your festivals to mourning, And all your songs to lamentation, And caused sackcloth to come up on all loins, And on every head -- baldness, And made it as a mourning `of' an only one, And its latter end as a day of bitterness.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

• World English Bible (2000)

  I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  I will turn your festivals into funerals, and all your songs into funeral dirges. I will make everyone wear funeral clothes and cause every head to be shaved bald. I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son; when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day.

Referenced Verses

• Jer 6:26 : 26 O daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make lamentation, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.
• Zech 12:10 : 10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
• Jer 48:37 : 37 For every head shall be bald and every beard clipped; upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
• Ezek 7:18 : 18 They shall also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
• Hos 2:11 : 11 I will also cause all her joy to stop, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
• Job 20:23 : 23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of His wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
• Isa 15:2-3 : 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.
• Isa 21:3-4 : 3 Therefore my loins are filled with pain; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor. I was bent over when I heard it; I was dismayed when I saw it. 4 My heart pounded, fearfulness frightened me; the night that I delighted in has been turned into terror for me.
• Isa 22:12-14 : 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. 13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die. 14 And it was revealed in my ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you until you die, says the Lord GOD of hosts.
• Deut 16:14 : 14 And you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within your gates.
• 1 Sam 25:36-38 : 36 And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; therefore she told him nothing, little or much, until morning light. 37 But in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became like a stone. 38 And it came about ten days later that the LORD struck Nabal, and he died.
• 2 Sam 13:28-31 : 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. 29 And the servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man got on his mule and fled. 30 And it came to pass, while they were on the way, that news came to David, saying, Absalom has slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left. 31 Then the king arose, tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.
• Job 3:5 : 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it.
• Amos 5:23 : 23 Take away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your lutes.
• Amos 6:4-7 : 4 Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; 5 Who sing to the sound of the harp, and invent for themselves instruments of music, like David; 6 Who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the finest ointments: but are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. 7 Therefore now they shall go captive with the first who go captive, and the banquet of those who stretch themselves shall be removed.
• Amos 8:3 : 3 And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, declares the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them out in silence.
• Nah 1:10 : 10 For while they are entangled like thorns and while they are drunken like drunkards, they shall be devoured as fully dry stubble.
• Ezek 27:30-31 : 30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: 31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for you, and gird themselves with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
• Dan 5:4-6 : 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, of brass, iron, wood, and stone. 5 In the same hour, fingers of a man's hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, opposite the lampstand; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. 6 Then the king's face changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened, and his knees knocked against each other.
• Luke 7:12-13 : 12 Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and a large crowd of the city was with her. 13 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, Weep not.