Verse 3

Then say, Thus says the Lord GOD, The city sheds blood in its midst, that her time may come, and makes idols against herself to defile herself.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Du skal si: Så sier Herren Gud: Byen som utgyter blod for å oppnå sine interesser, og som lager avguder, og derfor blir urene.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Så skal du si: Så sier Herren Gud: Byen utgyter blod midt iblant seg for å komme til sin tid, og lager seg avguder for å gjøre seg uren.

• Norsk King James

  Si da: Så sier Herren Gud: Byen utgyter blod i sitt indre for å møte sin skjebne, og lager avguder for seg selv.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Du skal si: Så sier Herren Gud: Dette er byen som utøser blod i seg, slik at dens tid skal komme, og som lager avskyelige avguder for å gjøre seg uren.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Si: Så sier Herren Gud: Du by som utgyter blod i ditt midte så din tid nærmer seg, og som lager avguder for å gjøre deg uren.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Da skal du si: Så sier Herren Gud: Byen utøser blod i sitt indre for at hennes tid skal komme, og lager avguder mot seg selv for å bli uren.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Da skal du si: Slik sier Herren Gud: Byen utgyter blod midt i seg, for at hennes time skal komme, og den lager avguder mot seg selv for å besudle seg.

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

  Da skal du si: Så sier Herren Gud: Byen utøser blod i sitt indre for at hennes tid skal komme, og lager avguder mot seg selv for å bli uren.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Du skal si: Så sier Herren Gud: Byen som utøser blod i sitt indre for å få sin tid til å komme og lager seg avguder for å gjøre seg uren,

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Then say, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You city that sheds blood in her midst to bring her time closer, and makes idols to defile herself,

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Du skal si: 'Så sier Herren Gud: Byen som utøser blod i sitt midte og gjør avguder for å gjøre seg uren,

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Og du skal sige: Saa sagde den Herre Herre: Det er den Stad, som udøser Blod i sig, at dens Tid skal komme, og som gjør (stygge) Afguder hos sig til at besmitte sig.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Så skal du si: Så sier Herren Gud: Byen utøser blod midt i seg for at hennes tid skal komme, og lager seg avguder for å besmitte seg selv.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Du skal si: Så sier Herren Gud: En by som utgyter blod i sitt indre for at hennes tid skal komme, og som lager avguder for å gjøre seg uren!

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Og du skal si: Så sier Herren Gud: Byen utøser blod i sitt midt for å fremskynde sin tid, og den har laget seg avguder for å gjøre den uren.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Du skal si: Så sier Herren Gud: En by som utgyter blod i sitt indre, så hennes tid kommer, og som lager avguder til sin egen vanære!

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Og du skal si: Dette sier Herren: En by som lar blod flyte i gatene for at hennes tid skal komme, og som lager bilder for å gjøre seg uren!

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  & tell them: Thus saieth the LORDE God: O thou cite, yt sheddest bloude in ye myddest of the, yt thy tyme maye come also: and makest the Idols to defyle the withall.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Then say, Thus sayth the Lorde God, The citie sheddeth blood in the middes of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against her selfe to pollute her selfe.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And tell them, thus saith the Lorde God, The citie sheddeth blood in the middest of it, that her tyme may come, and maketh idols agaynst her selfe, to defile her selfe.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  You shall say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: The city is shedding blood in its midst, For the coming in of its time, And it hath made idols on it for defilement.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A city that sheddeth blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that maketh idols against herself to defile her!

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: A town causing blood to be drained out in her streets so that her time may come, and making images in her to make her unclean!

• World English Bible (2000)

  You shall say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Then say,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: O city, who spills blood within herself(which brings on her doom), and who makes herself idols(which results in impurity),

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 22:27 : 27 Her princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
• Ezek 23:37 : 37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire, to devour them.
• Ezek 23:45 : 45 And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.
• Ezek 24:6-9 : 6 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is in it, and whose scum has not gone out! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it. 7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the top of a rock; she did not pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust; 8 That it might cause fury to come up and take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered. 9 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pyre large.
• Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they do not gnaw the bones until the morning.
• Rom 2:5 : 5 But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
• 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And through covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; their judgment is long overdue, and their destruction does not slumber.
• 2 Kgs 21:2-9 : 2 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, following the abominations of the nations whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. 3 For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal, and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them. 4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, 'In Jerusalem I will put my name.' 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 6 And he made his son pass through the fire, practiced divination, sought omens, and dealt with mediums and spiritists: he did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger. 7 And he set up the carved image of the Asherah he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, 'In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever:' 8 And I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore out of the land that I gave their ancestors, if only they are careful to do all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them. 9 But they did not listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations which the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
• Jer 2:1-3 : 1 Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the LORD; I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your engagements, when you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. 3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, says the LORD.
• Ezek 7:2-9 : 2 Also, you son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: An end, the end has come upon the four corners of the land. 3 Now the end has come upon you, and I will send my anger upon you, and will judge you according to your ways, and will repay you for all your abominations. 4 And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity: but I will repay your ways upon you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the LORD. 5 Thus says the Lord GOD: An evil, a singular evil, behold, has come. 6 An end has come, the end has come; it watches for you; behold, it has come. 7 The morning has come upon you, O you that dwell in the land; the time has come, the day of trouble is near, and not the joyful shouting from the mountains. 8 Now I will shortly pour out my fury upon you, and accomplish my anger upon you; and I will judge you according to your ways, and will repay you for all your abominations. 9 And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; I will repay you according to your ways and your abominations that are in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the LORD who strikes. 10 Behold the day, behold, it has come; the morning has gone forth, the rod has blossomed, pride has budded. 11 Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness; none of them shall remain, not of their multitude, nor of any of theirs; neither shall there be wailing for them. 12 The time has come, the day draws near; let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
• Ezek 12:25 : 25 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall no longer be postponed: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, says the Lord GOD.
• Ezek 22:4 : 4 You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and have defiled yourself with your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and have come even to your years: therefore I have made you a reproach to the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
• Ezek 22:6 : 6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one, were in you using their power to shed blood.