Verse 3

You eat the fat, and clothe yourselves with the wool, you kill them that are fed: but you do not feed the flock.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Dere spiser det fete og dekker dere med ulla; dere slakter de beste dyrene, men dere passer ikke på sauene.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Dere spiser det fete og kler dere med ullen, dere slakter det fete dyret, men dere røkter ikke hjorden.

• Norsk King James

  Dere spiser det fete, kler dere i ulden og slakter de som er foret; men dere gir ikke flokken deres mat.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Dere spiser fettet og kler dere med ullen, dere slakter de beste dyrene, men dere tar ikke vare på sauene.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Dere spiser fettet, kler dere med ullen, og slakter de fete dyrene, men dere sørger ikke for flokken.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Dere spiser fettet, kler dere med ulla og slakter de beste dyrene, men dere gir ikke flokken mat.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Dere spiser det fete og kler dere med ull; dere slakter dem som er matet, men dere gir ikke flokken næring.

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

  Dere spiser fettet, kler dere med ulla og slakter de beste dyrene, men dere gir ikke flokken mat.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Dere spiser fettet og kler dere med ullen. Dere slakter de fete dyrene, men sauene gjeter dere ikke.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  You eat the fat, wear the wool, and slaughter the fattened animals, but you do not feed the flock.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Dere spiser fettet, klær dere med ullen og slakter de fete dyrene, men flokken gjeter dere ikke.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  I æde Fedmen og klædes med Ulden, I slagte det Fede; I føde ikke Faarene.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Dere spiser det fete og kler dere med ullen, dere slakter de beste dyrene, men dere gir ikke flokken mat.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Dere spiser fettet, kler dere med ullen og slakter de fete, men dere gir ikke flokken mat.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Dere spiser fettet og kler dere i ullen, men dere slakter dem som er fete, og gir ikke flokken mat.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Dere spiser fettet, kler dere med ullen og slakter de fete dyrene, men dere gir ikke sauene næring.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Dere drikker melken og kler dere med ullen; dere slakter de feteste, men lar sauene sulte.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Ye haue eaten vp the fatte, ye haue clothed you with the woll: the best fedde haue ye slayne, but ye flocke haue ye not norished:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Yee eate the fat, and yee clothe you with the wooll: yee kill them that are fed, but ye feede not the sheepe.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Ye eate vp the fat, ye clothe you with the wooll, the best fed do ye slay: but the flocke do ye not feede.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: [but] ye feed not the flock.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  You eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool, you kill the fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  The fat ye do eat, and the wool ye put on, The fed one ye slaughter, the flock ye feed not.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill the fatlings; but ye feed not the sheep.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food.

• World English Bible (2000)

  You eat the fat, and you clothe yourself with the wool, you kill the fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the choice animals, but you do not feed the sheep!

Referenced Verses

• Zech 11:16 : 16 For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are cut off, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor feed what stands still. But he will eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their hooves in pieces.
• Zech 11:5 : 5 Whose owners slay them and hold themselves not guilty. And those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich.' And their own shepherds do not pity them.
• 1 Kgs 21:13-16 : 13 And two men, worthless fellows, came in and sat before him; and the men bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him with stones, so that he died. 14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead. 15 And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead. 16 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
• 2 Kgs 21:16 : 16 Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD.
• Isa 1:10 : 10 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
• 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.
• Isa 56:11-12 : 11 Yes, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his territory. 12 Come, they say, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
• Jer 2:30 : 30 In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
• Jer 22:17 : 17 But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.
• Lam 4:13 : 13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the just in her midst,
• Ezek 19:3 : 3 And she brought up one of her cubs; it became a young lion, and it learned to catch prey; it devoured men.
• Ezek 19:6 : 6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch prey, and devoured men.
• Ezek 22:25-28 : 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in its midst, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in its midst. 26 Her priests have violated My law, and have profaned My holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and unholy, neither have they shown difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. 27 Her princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. 28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord GOD, when the LORD has not spoken.
• Ezek 33:25-26 : 25 Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land? 26 You rely on your sword, you commit abominations, and you defile every one his neighbor's wife: and shall you possess the land?
• Mic 3:1-3 : 1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O leaders of Jacob, and you rulers of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know justice? 2 Who hate good and love evil; who strip their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, like meat for the pot, and like flesh within the cauldron.
• 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.