Verse 3

Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces: should I be inquired of at all by them?

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Menneskesønn, disse mennene har plassert sine avguder i hjertet sitt og satt snublestener for sin synd foran seg. Skal jeg virkelig la meg rådspørres av dem?

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Menneskesønn, disse mennene har satt opp sine avguder i sitt hjerte og satt snublesteinen for sin synd foran seg. Skal jeg virkelig la meg forhøre av dem?

• Norsk King James

  Menneskesønn, disse mennene har satt opp sine gudebilder i hjertet sitt og har lagt snublesteinen for sin urettferdighet foran sitt ansikt: Skal jeg i det hele tatt la meg spørre av dem?

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Menneskesønn! Disse mennene har satt opp sine avskyelige avguder i hjertene sine og plassert sin misgjernings anstøt rett foran seg; skulle jeg virkelig la meg rådspørre av dem?

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Menneskesønn, disse mennene har latt sine avguder ta plass i hjertet, og de har satt det som fører til deres skyld rett foran seg. Skal jeg la meg rådspørre av dem?

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Menneskesønn, disse mennene har satt opp avgudene sine i hjertet, og plassert snublestenen for deres synd framfor seg: skal jeg la meg rådspørre av dem?

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Menneskesønn, disse mennene har satt sine avguder i sitt hjerte og plassert syndens snublestein foran sitt ansikt; skal jeg virkelig la meg etterspørre av dem?

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

  Menneskesønn, disse mennene har satt opp avgudene sine i hjertet, og plassert snublestenen for deres synd framfor seg: skal jeg la meg rådspørre av dem?

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Menneskesønn, disse mennene har satt sine avguder i hjertet og har plassert syndens snublestein foran seg. Skal jeg virkelig la meg spørre av dem?

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts and placed the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I really let myself be consulted by them?

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Menneskesønn, disse mennene har satt sine avguder i hjertet, og de har plassert snublestenen i sin urett foran sitt ansikt. Skal jeg virkelig la meg bli rådspurt av dem?

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Du Menneskesøn! disse Mænd have (høit) opsat deres (stygge) Afguder i deres Hjerte, og de satte deres Misgjernings Stød ret for deres Ansigt; skulde jeg endeligen adspørges af dem?

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Menneskesønn, disse mennene har satt opp sine avguder i hjertet sitt, og plassert snublesteinen til deres skyldighet rett foran seg: Skal jeg da bli spurt av dem i det hele tatt?

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Menneskesønn, disse mennene har tatt sine avguder inn i hjertet og har satt snublesteinen for sin synd foran seg. Skal jeg la meg rådspørre av dem?

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Menneskesønn, disse mennene har latt sine avguder komme inn i hjertet, og de har satt snublestenen av sin synd foran sine ansikter; skal jeg virkelig la meg rådspørre av dem?

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Menneskesønn, disse mennene har tatt avgudene sine i hjertet, og de har satt sitt syndefall foran seg. Skal jeg overhodet la meg spørre av dem?

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Menneskesønn, disse mennene har tatt sine falske guder til hjertet og plassert synden som forårsaker deres fall foran seg: skal jeg lytte når de kommer til meg for veiledning?

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Thou sonne of man, these men beare their Idols in their hertes, & go purposly vpon the stomblinge block of their owne wickednesse: how darre they then axe councell at me?

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Sonne of man, these men haue set vp their idoles in their heart, and put the stumbling blocke of their iniquitie before their face: should I, being required, answere them?

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Thou sonne of man, these men haue set vp their idols in their heartes, and put the stumbling blocke of iniquitie before their face: shoulde I then aunswere them at their request?

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  `Son of man, these men have caused their idols to go up on their heart, and the stumbling-block of their iniquity they have put over-against their faces; am I inquired of at all by them?

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Son of man, these men have taken their false gods into their hearts and put before their faces the sin which is the cause of their fall: am I to give ear when they come to me for directions?

• World English Bible (2000)

  Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  “Son of man, these men have erected their idols in their hearts and placed the obstacle leading to their iniquity right before their faces. Should I really allow them to seek me?

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 7:19 : 19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD; they shall not satisfy their souls, nor fill their stomachs, because it is the stumbling block of their iniquity.
• Isa 1:15 : 15 And when you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: indeed, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
• Ezek 14:7 : 7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger who sojourns in Israel, who separates himself from me and sets up his idols in his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:
• Ezek 20:3 : 3 Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; Have you come to inquire of me? As I live, says the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.
• Ezek 20:16 : 16 Because they despised my judgments, and did not walk in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
• Ezek 20:31 : 31 For when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, you pollute yourselves with all your idols, even to this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.
• 2 Kgs 3:13 : 13 And Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father and to the prophets of your mother." And the king of Israel said to him, "No, for the LORD has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab."
• Jer 11:11 : 11 Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they cry to me, I will not listen to them.
• Ezek 44:12 : 12 Because they ministered to them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore I have lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity.
• Zeph 1:3 : 3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling blocks along with the wicked; and I will cut off man from the land, says the LORD.
• Ezek 14:4 : 4 Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Every man of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him who comes according to the multitude of his idols;
• 1 Sam 28:6 : 6 And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD did not answer him, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
• Zech 7:13 : 13 Therefore it has come to pass, that just as He called and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear, says the LORD of hosts:
• Luke 20:8 : 8 And Jesus said to them, Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.
• Eph 5:5 : 5 For this you know, that no sexually immoral, unclean, or greedy person, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
• 1 Pet 2:8 : 8 And a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed.
• Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
• Jer 17:1-2 : 1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond; it is engraved upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; 2 While their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
• Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
• Jer 42:20-21 : 20 For you dissembled in your hearts, when you sent me to the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us to the LORD our God; and according to all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do it. 21 And now I have this day declared it to you; but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor anything for which he has sent me to you.
• Jer 44:16-18 : 16 As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you. 17 But we will certainly do whatever thing proceeds out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then we had plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil. 18 But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
• 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 6:9 : 9 And those of you who escape shall remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, because I am grieved by their adulterous heart, which has departed from me, and by their eyes, which go lusting after their idols; and they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
• Ps 66:18 : 18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
• Ps 101:3 : 3 I will set no wicked thing before my eyes: I hate the work of those who turn aside; it shall not cling to me.
• Prov 15:8 : 8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
• Prov 15:29 : 29 The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.
• Prov 21:27 : 27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with an evil intent?
• Prov 28:9 : 9 He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
• Ezek 36:25 : 25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
• Isa 33:15 : 15 He who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from holding bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;
• Jer 7:8-9 : 8 Behold, you trust in deceptive words that cannot profit. 9 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know; 10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? 11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, says the LORD.
• Ezek 11:21 : 21 But as for those whose hearts follow the hearts of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, says the Lord GOD.