Verse 14

You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which enters into their private chambers.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Menneskesønn, profeter til folket, og si: Så sier Herren Gud: Et skarpt sverd er hevet over dere!

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Du, menneskesønn, profeter, og slå hendene sammen, og la sverdet bli fordoblet den tredje gang, sverdet til de drepte. Det er sverdet til store menn som er drept, som trenger inn i deres hemmelige kamre.

• Norsk King James

  Derfor, menneskesønn, profeter, og slå hendene dine sammen, og la sverdet bli tredoblet; sverdet til de drepte; det er sverdet til de store mennene som har falt, som går inn i deres hemmeligste kammer.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Du menneskesønn! Profeter og slå hendene sammen; for sverdet skal komme dobbelt, ja, tre ganger, et sverd for å drepe, for de store som skal dø, det som trenger inn i de innerste rom.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Menneskesønn, profeter og si: Så sier Herren Gud: Sverd, et sverd skarpslipet og polert.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Du derfor, menneskesønn, profeter, og slå dine hender sammen, og la sverdet bli doblet for tredje gang, de falnes sverd: det er de store mennene som er falne, som trenger inn i deres hemmelige rom.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Du, menneskesønn, profetiser og slå hendene sammen; la sverdet tredobles – sverdet til de dræpte, sverdet for de store menn som blir drept og ført inn i deres private kamre.

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

  Du derfor, menneskesønn, profeter, og slå dine hender sammen, og la sverdet bli doblet for tredje gang, de falnes sverd: det er de store mennene som er falne, som trenger inn i deres hemmelige rom.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Menneskesønn, profeter og si: Så sier Herren: Et sverd, et sverd er blitt skjerpet og også polert!

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Son of man, prophesy and say, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: A sword! A sword, sharpened and also polished—

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Menneskesønn, profeter og si: Så sier Herren Gud: Si: Sverdet, sverdet er kvesset og også pusset.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Og du Menneskesøn! spaa og slaa Haand i Haand; thi Sværdet skal komme dobbelt, (ja) tredie Gang, det er et Sværd til dem, som skulle ihjelslaaes, det er et Sværd til de Store, som skulle ihjelslaaes, som skal trænge til dem i de inderste Kammere.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Derfor, du menneskesønn, profetér, og slå hendene sammen, og la sverdet dobles for den tredje gang, sverdet til de drepte: det er sverdet til de store mennene som er drept, som går inn i deres innerste kammer.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Du derfor, menneskesønn, profeter, og klapp hendene sammen; og la sverdet bli doblet for tredje gang, sverdet for de dødbringende sårede: det er sverdet til den store dødbringende sårede, som trenger inn i deres kammer.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Og du, menneskesønn, profetér og slå hånd mot hånd! Sverdet er bøyet en tredje gang, sverdet for de sårede! Det er det store sverdet som trenger inn i kammeret deres.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Derfor, menneskesønn, profeter og slå hendene sammen; og la sverdet bli doblet en tredje gang, sverdet til dødelige sår: det er den store sverdet til den som er dødelig såret, som trenger inn i deres kamre.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Så gi da profetiske ord, menneskesønn, og klapp i hendene og slå med sverdet to ganger, ja, tre ganger; det er sverdet til de sårede, ja, sverdet til de store sårete som går rundt dem.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Prophecy thou sonne of man, & smyte thine hodes together: make the swearde two edged, yee make it thre edged, yt manslayers swearde, that swearde of the greate slaughter, which shal smyte them, euen in their preuy chambres:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Thou therefore, sonne of man, prophecie, and smite hand to hand, and let the sworde be doubled: let the sworde that hath killed, returne the third time: it is the sword of the great slaughter entring into their priuie chambers.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Prophecie thou sonne of man, & smite thy handes together, & let the sworde be doubled thrise, euen the sworde of the great slaughter, entryng into their priuie chaumbers,

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite [thine] hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it [is] the sword of the great [men that are] slain, which entereth into their privy chambers.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one who is deadly wounded, which enters into their chambers.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And thou, son of man, prophesy, And smite hand on hand, And bent is the sword a third time, The sword of the wounded! It `is' the sword of the wounded -- the great one, That is entering the inner chamber to them.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thy hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one that is deadly wounded, which entereth into their chambers.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  So then, son of man, be a prophet, and put your hands together with a loud sound, and give two blows with the sword, and even three; it is the sword of those who are wounded, even the sword of the wounded; the great sword which goes round about them.

• World English Bible (2000)

  You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one who is deadly wounded, which enters into their rooms.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  “And you, son of man, prophesy, and clap your hands together. Let the sword strike twice, even three times! It is a sword for slaughter, a sword for the great slaughter surrounding them.

Referenced Verses

• Num 24:10 : 10 And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.
• 2 Kgs 24:1 : 1 In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years; then he turned and rebelled against him.
• 2 Kgs 24:10-16 : 10 At that time, the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. 11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants besieged it. 12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers, and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign. 13 And he carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said. 14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths; none remained except the poorest people of the land. 15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land; he took them into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. 16 And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all who were strong and fit for war, the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
• Lev 26:21 : 21 And if you walk contrary to me, and will not listen to me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
• Lev 26:24 : 24 Then will I also walk contrary to you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
• Ezek 6:11 : 11 Thus says the Lord GOD; Clap your hands, and stamp your foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.
• Ezek 8:12 : 12 Then he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the earth.
• Ezek 21:17 : 17 I will also strike my hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.
• Dan 3:19 : 19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the expression on his face changed towards Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; he spoke and commanded that they heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.
• Amos 9:2 : 2 Though they dig into hell, from there my hand will take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.
• 1 Kgs 20:30 : 30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty-seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
• 1 Kgs 22:25 : 25 And Micaiah said, Behold, you shall see on that day, when you shall go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.
• 2 Kgs 25:1-7 : 1 And it happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and camped against it; and they built siege works all around it. 2 And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 3 On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. 4 And the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldeans were against the city all around:) and the king went the way toward the plain. 5 And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army scattered from him. 6 So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah; and they pronounced judgment on him. 7 And they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.