Verse 8

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir trees were not like its boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like its branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.

Other Translations

  • GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

    Ingen sypress i Guds hage kan sammenlignes med den. Ingen einertrær kan måle seg med dens grener, og ingen platan kan sammenlignes med dens skyggefulle kvister. For ingen trær i Guds hage kan sammenlignes med den i skjønnhet.

  • Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

    Sederne i Guds hage kunne ikke skjule ham: sypressene var ikke som hans greiner, og kastanjetærne var ikke som hans greiner; og intet tre i Guds hage var som ham i hans skjønnhet.

  • Norsk King James

    Sedertreene i Guds hage kunne ikke skjule ham; grantrærne kunne ikke sammenlignes med greinene hans, og kastanjetrærne kunne ikke matche hans; intet tre i Guds hage kunne sammenlignes med ham i skjønnhet.

  • Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

    Ingen seder i Guds hage kunne måle seg med dens skjønnhet, ingen furutrær liknet dens små grener, og kastanjetrærne var ikke som dens vakre grener; det fantes ingenting i Guds hage som kunne sammenlignes med den i skjønnhet.

  • Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

    Ingen sypresser i Guds hage kunne skjule det. Ingen einebusker kunne ligne dets greiner, og ingen plenet kunne ligne dens løvverk. Ingen tre i Guds hage kunne sammenlignes med det i skjønnhet.

  • Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

    Sederne i Guds hage kunne ikke skjule ham: grantrærne var ikke som hans grener, og kastanjetrærne var ikke som hans greiner; og intet tre i Guds hage var som ham i skjønnhet.

  • o3-mini KJV Norsk

    Sederne i Guds hage kunne ikke skjule ham; grantrærne var ikke som hans greiner, og kastanjetrærne var ikke som hans grener; heller ikke noe annet tre i Guds hage var likt ham i sin skjønnhet.

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

    Sederne i Guds hage kunne ikke skjule ham: grantrærne var ikke som hans grener, og kastanjetrærne var ikke som hans greiner; og intet tre i Guds hage var som ham i skjønnhet.

  • Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

    Sedertrær i Guds hage kunne ikke skjule den, sypresser var ikke lik dens grener, og platantrærne var ikke som dens skudd. Ingen trær i Guds hage kunne sammenlignes med dens prakt.

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    The cedars in God's garden could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare to its branches, and the plane trees were not like its boughs. No tree in the garden of God was equal to it in beauty.

  • biblecontext

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  • GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

    Sypresser i Guds hage kunne ikke måle seg med den. Einer kunne ikke sammenlignes med dens greiner, og kastanjer var ikke som dens grener. Intet tre i Guds hage var lik den i skjønnhet.

  • Original Norsk Bibel 1866

    Cederne i Guds Have formørkede ikke hans (ypperlige Anseelse), Fyrretræerne vare ikke at ligne ved hans (smaae) Grene, og Castanietræerne vare ikke som hans (skjønne) Grene; der var intet Træ i Guds Have ligt med ham i hans Deilighed.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

  • KJV 1769 norsk

    Sedertrærne i Guds hage kunne ikke skjule ham: grantrærne var ikke som hans grener, og kastanjetrærne var ikke som hans greiner; intet tre i Guds hage var som ham i skjønnhet.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Webster

    Ingen seder i Guds hage kunne skjule den; grantrærne var ikke som dens greiner, og platantrærne var ikke som dens grener; og intet tre i Guds hage var som den i skjønnhet.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

    Ingen sypresser i Guds hage kunne skjule den, ingen einer kunne matche dens grener, og ingen kastanjetrær kunne sammenlignes med dens greiner, ingen trær i Guds hage kunne ligne den i skjønnhet.

  • Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

    Sederne i Guds hage kunne ikke skjule den; grantrærne lignet ikke dens grener, og platantrærne var ikke som dens greiner; ingen trær i Guds hage var like den i skjønnhet.

  • Norsk oversettelse av BBE

    Ingen sedertrær var likt det i Guds have; grantrærne var ikke som dets grener, og platantrærne var som ingenting i sammenligning med dets armer; intet tre i Guds have var så vakkert.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    no Cedre tre might hyde him. In the pleasaut garden of God, there was no Fyrre tre like his brauches, the playne trees were not like ye bowes of him. All the trees in the garden off God might not be copared vnto him in his beuty:

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    The cedars in the garden of God coulde not hide him: no firre tree was like his branches, and the chessenut trees were not like his boughes: all the trees in the garden of God were not like vnto him in his beautie.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    No Cedar tree might hyde hym in the garden of God, there was no fyrre trees like his braunches, the chestnut trees were not like the bowes of him: all the trees in the garden of God, might not be compared vnto him in his beautie.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Cedars have not hid him in the garden of God, Firs have not been like unto his boughs, And chesnut-trees have not been as his branches, No tree in the garden of God hath been like unto him in his beauty,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir-trees were not like its boughs, and the plane-trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like unto it in its beauty.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    No cedars were equal to it in the garden of God; the fir-trees were not like its branches, and plane-trees were as nothing in comparison with its arms; no tree in the garden of God was so beautiful.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    The cedars in the garden of God could not eclipse it, nor could the fir trees match its boughs; the plane trees were as nothing compared to its branches; no tree in the garden of God could rival its beauty.

Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 28:13 : 13 You have been in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the sardius, topaz, and diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of your tambourines and of your pipes was prepared in you in the day that you were created.
  • Ps 80:10 : 10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and its boughs were like the majestic cedars.
  • Gen 13:10 : 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you come to Zoar.
  • Isa 51:3 : 3 For the LORD will comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness will be found in it, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
  • Gen 2:8-9 : 8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. 9 And out of the ground the LORD God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
  • Ezek 31:16 : 16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to hell with those who descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the lower parts of the earth.
  • Ezek 31:18 : 18 Who are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth; you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord GOD.
  • Ps 37:35 : 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
  • Isa 10:7-9 : 7 Yet he does not mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off not a few nations. 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.
  • Isa 36:4-9 : 4 And Rabshakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: What confidence is this in which you trust? 5 I say that your words are empty: I have counsel and strength for war. Now in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me? 6 Indeed, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which if a man leans on, it will pierce his hand. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. 7 But if you say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not He whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar? 8 Now therefore, I urge you, give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to put riders on them. 9 How then will you turn away one captain of the least of my master's servants and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen? 10 Have I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it. 11 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to Rabshakeh, Speak, please, to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the Jews' language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall. 12 But Rabshakeh said, Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words? Has he not sent me to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you? 13 Then Rabshakeh stood and called out with a loud voice in the Jews' language and said, Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! 14 Thus says the king: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he shall not be able to deliver you. 15 Nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. 16 Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: Make peace with me by a present, and come out to me, and every one of you eat from his own vine and his own fig tree and drink the waters of his own cistern, 17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards. 18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
  • Isa 37:11-13 : 11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by utterly destroying them; and shall you be delivered? 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?