Verse 27

Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should misbehave themselves, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD has not done all this.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Jeg ville ellers sagt: 'Jeg vil feie dem bort, utslette minnet om dem blant menneskene,' dersom jeg ikke var redd for fiendens hån, for ellers kunne deres motstandere misforstå og si: 'Vår hånd har seiret, ikke Herren.'

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Hvis jeg ikke fryktet fiendens vrede, at deres motstandere skulle fordreie det, og si: Vår hånd har seiret, og Herren har ikke gjort alt dette.

• Norsk King James

  Var det ikke fordi jeg fryktet fiendens vrede, lest deres motstandere skulle oppføre seg merkelig, og lest de skulle si, Vår hånd er høy, og HERREN har ikke gjort alt dette.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  hvis jeg ikke fryktet fiendens hån, at deres fiender kunne misforstå, at de kunne si: Vår hånd har seiret, ikke Herren har gjort alt dette.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Men jeg fryktet fiendens hån, at deres motstandere skulle misforstå, si: 'Vår hånd har seiret, det var ikke Herren som gjorde dette.'

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Hvis det ikke var for at jeg fryktet fiendens vrede, for at deres motstandere ikke skulle handle annerledes og si: Vår hånd er høy, og Herren har ikke gjort alt dette.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Om jeg ikke hadde fryktet fiendens vrede, i tilfelle deres motstandere opptrer uvanlig og sier: 'Vår hånd er mektig, og HERREN har ikke gjort dette.'

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

  Hvis det ikke var for at jeg fryktet fiendens vrede, for at deres motstandere ikke skulle handle annerledes og si: Vår hånd er høy, og Herren har ikke gjort alt dette.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  hvis det ikke var for at fienden ville misforstå, at deres motstandere skulle si: 'Vår hånd har seiret! Herren har ikke gjort alt dette,'

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  but I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say, 'Our own hand has triumphed; it was not the LORD who did all this.'

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  dersom jeg ikke fryktet fiendens hån; at mine motstandere ville forvrenge det, og si: 'Vår egen hånd har vært høy, og det er ikke Herren som har gjort alt dette.'

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  dersom jeg ikke befrygtede Fjendens Fortørnelse; at deres Fjender ikke skulde holde sig fremmede (derover), at de ikke skulde sige: Vor Magt er høi, og Herren haver ikke gjort alt dette.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Hvis jeg ikke hadde fryktet fiendens hån, skulle ikke deres motstandere si: Vår hånd har vært høy, og Herren har ikke gjort alt dette.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  hvis ikke jeg fryktet fiendens provokasjon, for at deres motstandere ikke skal dømme feil, for at de ikke skal si: Vår hånd er opphøyet, Yahweh har ikke gjort alt dette.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Hvis det ikke var for fiendens hat, frykter jeg at deres motstandere skal tolke det feil - for at de skal si: Vår hånd er høy, og Jehova har ikke gjort alt dette.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Hvis jeg ikke fryktet fiendenes provokasjon, så deres motstandere ikke bedømmer feil, og sier: Vår hånd er opphøyet, og Herren har ikke gjort alt dette.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Men av frykt for at deres hatere, hovmodige i stolthet, skulle si: Vår hånd er sterk, Herren har ikke gjort alt dette.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Were it not that I feared the raylynge off their enemyes, lest theire aduersaries wolde be prowde and saye: oure hye hande hath done al these workes and not the Lorde.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Yf the wrath of the enemies were not gathered, lest their enemies shulde be proude, & might saie: Oure hande is hye, and: The LORDE hath not done all this.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Saue that I feared the furie of the enemie, least their aduersaries should waxe proude, and least they should say, Our hie hande and not the Lorde hath done all this:

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemie, lest their aduersaries should vtterly withdrawe the selues, and lest they shoulde say: our hye hande hath done all this, and not the Lorde.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, [and] lest they should say, Our hand [is] high, and the LORD hath not done all this.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  If not -- the anger of an enemy I fear, Lest their adversaries know -- Lest they say, Our hand is high, And Jehovah hath not wrought all this.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge amiss, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, And Jehovah hath not done all this.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand is strong, the Lord has not done all this.

• World English Bible (2000)

  were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, 'Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.'"

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  But I fear the reaction of their enemies, for their adversaries would misunderstand and say,“Our power is great, and the LORD has not done all this!”’

Referenced Verses

• Ps 140:8 : 8 Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked; do not further his wicked scheme, lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
• Isa 10:8-9 : 8 For he says, Are not my princes altogether kings? 9 Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? 10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose carved images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria; 11 Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, also do to Jerusalem and her idols? 12 Therefore, it shall come to pass, that when the Lord has performed all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. 13 For he says, By the strength of my hand, I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the boundaries of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have brought down the inhabitants like a valiant man; 14 And my hand has found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathers eggs that are left, I have gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or chirped. 15 Shall the ax boast against him who cuts with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself against him who shakes it? As if the rod should shake itself against those who lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were not wood.
• Isa 37:10 : 10 Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not your God, in whom you trust, deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
• Isa 37:12-23 : 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? 14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. 15 And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD, saying, 16 O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, who dwells between the cherubim, You are the God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: You have made heaven and earth. 17 Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God. 18 Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their countries, 19 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them. 20 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the LORD, You alone. 21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria: 22 This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you and laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you. 23 Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
• Isa 37:28-29 : 28 But I know your abode, and your going out, and your coming in, and your rage against me. 29 Because your rage against me and your tumult have come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
• Isa 37:35 : 35 For I will defend this city to save it for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
• Isa 47:7 : 7 And you said, 'I shall be a lady forever,' so that you did not lay these things to heart, nor remember their end.
• Jer 19:4 : 4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
• Lam 1:9 : 9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she does not remember her last end; therefore she came down astonishingly: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction, for the enemy has magnified himself.
• Ezek 20:13-14 : 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they did not walk in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man does, he shall even live in them; and they greatly polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them. 14 But I acted for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
• Ezek 20:20-22 : 20 And hallow my sabbaths, and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God. 21 Nevertheless the children rebelled against me: they did not walk in my statutes, nor kept my judgments to do them, which if a man does, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness. 22 Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and acted for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
• Dan 4:30-37 : 30 The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal residence, by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty? 31 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken; The kingdom has departed from you. 32 And they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; they shall make you eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He will. 33 The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar, and he was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair had grown like eagle's feathers, and his nails like bird's claws. 34 At the end of the days, I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up my eyes unto heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored Him that lives forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom is from generation to generation. 35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing, and He does according to His will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay His hand, or say to Him, What are you doing? 36 At the same time, my reason returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my honor and brightness returned to me; and my counselors and my lords sought me out; and I was reestablished in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added to me. 37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and His ways just; and those that walk in pride He is able to abase.
• Zech 1:14-15 : 14 So the angel who spoke with me said to me, Proclaim, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am zealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with great zeal. 15 And I am very displeased with the nations at ease; for I was a little angry, and they helped forward the affliction.
• Exod 32:12 : 12 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and relent from this evil against Your people.
• Num 14:15-16 : 15 Now if you shall kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying, 16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.
• Josh 7:9 : 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and surround us, and cut off our name from the earth: and what will you do for your great name?
• 1 Sam 12:22 : 22 For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it has pleased the LORD to make you his people.
• Ps 115:1-2 : 1 Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but to Your name give glory, for Your mercy and for Your truth's sake. 2 Why should the nations say, Where is now their God?