Verse 12

Are You not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, You have appointed them for judgment; O mighty God, You have established them for correction.

Other Translations

  • GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

    Er du ikke evig, Herre, min Gud, min Hellige? Vi skal ikke dø. Herre, du har satt dem til dom; du, Klippen, har skapt dem for å irettesette.

  • Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

    Er ikke du fra evighet, Herre min Gud, min hellige? Vi skal ikke dø. Herre, du har fastsatt dem til dom; og du, sterke Gud, har grunnlagt dem til tukt.

  • Norsk King James

    Er du ikke fra evighet, Å HERRE, min Gud, min Hellige? Vi skal ikke dø. Å HERRE, du har fastsatt dem til dom, og du, Å mektige Gud, har satt dem til korrigering.

  • Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

    Er du ikke fra gammel tid, Herre min Gud, min Hellige? Vi skal ikke dø. Herre, du har utpekt dem til dom, og Klippen vår har gjort dem sterke for å straffe.

  • Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

    Er ikke du fra evighet, Herre min Gud, min hellige? Vi skal ikke dø. Herre, du har satt dem til dom, og sterke klippe, du har bestemt dem til tukt.

  • Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

    Er ikke du fra evighet, HERRE min Gud, min Hellige? Vi skal ikke dø. HERRE, du har utpekt dem for dom, og du, mektige Gud, har bestemt dem for å irettesette.

  • o3-mini KJV Norsk

    Er du ikke evig, Herre min Gud, min Hellige? Vi skal ikke forgå. Herre, du har utpekt dem for dom, og, mektige Gud, du har fastsatt dem for irettesettelse.

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

    Er ikke du fra evighet, HERRE min Gud, min Hellige? Vi skal ikke dø. HERRE, du har utpekt dem for dom, og du, mektige Gud, har bestemt dem for å irettesette.

  • Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

    Er det ikke slik at du, Herre, er fra gammel tid, min Gud, min Hellige? Vi skal ikke dø. Herre, du har fastsatt dem for dom, og du, Klippe, har grunnlagt dem for å refse.

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Are You not from eternity, LORD my God, my Holy One? We will not die. LORD, You have appointed them for judgment; You, O Rock, have established them to rebuke.

  • biblecontext

    { "verseID": "Habakkuk.1.12", "source": "הֲל֧וֹא אַתָּ֣ה מִקֶּ֗דֶם יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהַ֛י קְדֹשִׁ֖י לֹ֣א נָמ֑וּת יְהוָה֙ לְמִשְׁפָּ֣ט שַׂמְתּ֔וֹ וְצ֖וּר לְהוֹכִ֥יחַ יְסַדְתּֽוֹ׃", "text": "Are-not you from-*qeḏem* *YHWH* *ʾĕlōhay* *qəḏōšî* not *nāmûṯ* *YHWH* for-*mišpāṭ* *śamtô* and-*ṣûr* for-*ləhôḵîaḥ* *yəsaḏtô*", "grammar": { "*hălôʾ*": "interrogative particle + negative particle - are not", "*ʾattāh*": "pronoun, 2nd person masculine singular - you", "*miqqeḏem*": "preposition + noun, masculine singular - from antiquity/from ancient times", "*YHWH*": "divine name - Yahweh/LORD", "*ʾĕlōhay*": "noun, masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my God", "*qəḏōšî*": "adjective, masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my Holy One", "*lōʾ nāmûṯ*": "negative particle + verb, Qal imperfect, 1st person plural - we shall not die", "*ləmišpāṭ*": "preposition + noun, masculine singular - for judgment", "*śamtô*": "verb, Qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - you have appointed him", "*wə-ṣûr*": "conjunction + noun, masculine singular - and Rock", "*ləhôḵîaḥ*": "preposition + Hiphil infinitive construct - for correction/reproof", "*yəsaḏtô*": "verb, Qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - you have established him" }, "variants": { "*qeḏem*": "antiquity/ancient times/olden days/east", "*ʾĕlōhay*": "my God/my deity", "*qəḏōšî*": "my Holy One/my Sacred One", "*nāmûṯ*": "we shall die/we will die", "*mišpāṭ*": "judgment/justice/legal decision", "*śamtô*": "you have appointed him/you have ordained him/you have established him", "*ṣûr*": "Rock/cliff/stone (metaphor for strength)", "*ləhôḵîaḥ*": "for correction/for reproof/for rebuke/for chastisement", "*yəsaḏtô*": "you have established him/you have founded him/you have appointed him" } }

  • GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

    Er du ikke fra evighet, Herre min Gud, min Hellige? Vi skal ikke dø. Herre, du har utpekt dem til dom, og du, vår Klippe, har satt dem til å straffe.

  • Original Norsk Bibel 1866

    Mon du ikke var af fordum (Tid), Herre min Gud, min Hellige? vi skulle ikke døe; Herre! du haver sat ham til Dom, og (du, vor) Klippe! haver grundfæstet ham til at straffe (os).

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.

  • KJV 1769 norsk

    Er du ikke fra evighet, Herre, min Gud, min Hellige? Vi skal ikke dø. Herre, du har utpekt dem til dom, og, du Vår Klippe, satt dem til å straffe.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Webster

    Er du ikke fra evighet, Herre min Gud, min Hellige? Vi skal ikke dø. Herre, du har utnevnt ham til dom. Du, Klippen, har grunnlagt ham til å straffe.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

    Er ikke du fra gammelt, Herre, min Gud, min Hellige? Vi skal ikke dø, Herre, du har bestemt det for dom, og, O Faste Klippe, du har grunnfestet det til tukt.

  • Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

    Er ikke du fra evighet, Jehova min Gud, min Hellige? Vi skal ikke dø. Jehova, du har utnevnt dem til dom; og du, klippen, har satt dem til tilrettevisning.

  • Norsk oversettelse av BBE

    Er du ikke evig, Herre min Gud, min Hellige? For deg er det ingen død. Herre, du har satt ham til vår straff; og du, vår Klippe, har merket han ut for å sette oss på plass.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    But thou o LORDE my God, my holy one, thou art from the begynnynge, therfore shal we not dye. O LORDE, thou hast ordened them for a punyshmet, and set them to reproue the mightie.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Art thou not of olde, O Lorde my God, mine holy one? we shall not die: O Lord, thou hast ordeined them for iudgement, and O God, thou hast established them for correction.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Art not thou of olde, O Lord my God, my holy one? we shall not dye, O Lord thou hast ordeined them for iudgement, and O God thou hast established them for correction.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ [Art] thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Aren't you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Art not Thou of old, O Jehovah, my God, my Holy One? We do not die, O Jehovah, For judgment Thou hast appointed it, And, O Rock, for reproof Thou hast founded it.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Art not thou from everlasting, O Jehovah my God, my Holy One? we shall not die. O Jehovah, thou hast ordained him for judgment; and thou, O Rock, hast established him for correction.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Are you not eternal, O Lord my God, my Holy One? for you there is no death. O Lord, he has been ordered by you for our punishment; and by you, O Rock, he has been marked out to put us right.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Aren't you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Habakkuk Voices Some Concerns LORD, you have been active from ancient times; my sovereign God, you are immortal. LORD, you have made them your instrument of judgment. Protector, you have appointed them as your instrument of punishment.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 32:4 : 4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
  • Jer 30:11 : 11 For I am with you, says the LORD, to save you: though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, yet I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in due measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished.
  • Deut 33:27 : 27 The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall drive out the enemy from before you; and shall say, Destroy them.
  • Ps 90:2 : 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
  • Jer 46:28 : 28 Fear not, O Jacob my servant, says the LORD: for I am with you; for I will make a complete end of all the nations where I have driven you: but I will not make a complete end of you, but correct you in measure; yet I will not leave you wholly unpunished.
  • 1 Tim 1:17 : 17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
  • Ps 93:2 : 2 Your throne is established from of old: you are from everlasting.
  • Ps 118:17 : 17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
  • Isa 10:5-7 : 5 O Assyrian, the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation. 6 I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 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.
  • Isa 27:6-9 : 6 Those who come from Jacob shall take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. 7 Has He smitten him, as He smote those that smote him? Or is he slain according to the slaughter of those that are slain by Him? 8 In measure, when it shoots forth, You will debate with it: He restrains His rough wind in the day of the east wind. 9 By this shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten apart, the groves and images shall not stand up. 10 Yet the fortified city shall be desolate, the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall it lie down and consume its branches.
  • Isa 37:26 : 26 Have you not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that you should lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
  • Isa 40:28 : 28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does not faint nor is weary? His understanding is unsearchable.
  • Isa 43:15 : 15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.
  • Isa 49:7 : 7 Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to the servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD who is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose you.
  • Isa 57:15 : 15 For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
  • Jer 4:27 : 27 For thus says the LORD, The whole land shall be desolate; yet I will not make a complete end.
  • Jer 5:18 : 18 Nevertheless in those days, says the LORD, I will not make a complete end with you.
  • Jer 25:9-9 : 9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations. 10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle. 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, says the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations. 13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations. 14 For many nations and great kings shall enslave them also: and I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
  • 1 Sam 2:2 : 2 There is none holy like the LORD; for there is none besides you; neither is there any rock like our God.
  • 2 Kgs 19:25 : 25 Have you not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now I have brought it to pass, that you should be to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
  • Ps 17:13 : 13 Arise, O LORD, confront him, cast him down; deliver my soul from the wicked, which is your sword:
  • Ps 18:1 : 1 I will love you, O LORD, my strength.
  • Jer 31:18-20 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bull not accustomed to the yoke: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God. 19 Surely, after I was turned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even humiliated, because I bore the reproach of my youth. 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.
  • Jer 33:24-26 : 24 Do you not consider what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD has chosen, he has even cast them off? Thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. 25 Thus says the LORD: If my covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth, 26 Then I will cast away the descendants of Jacob and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his descendants to be rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
  • Deut 32:30-31 : 30 How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had delivered them up? 31 For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
  • 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 Who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see: to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.
  • Heb 1:10-12 : 10 And, You, Lord, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of Your hands: 11 They shall perish; but You remain; and they all shall grow old as does a garment; 12 And like a garment You shall fold them up, and they shall be changed: but You are the same, and Your years shall not fail.
  • Heb 12:5-6 : 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to children, "My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by him: 6 For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives."
  • Heb 13:8 : 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
  • Rev 1:8 : 8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, says the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.
  • Lam 5:19 : 19 You, O LORD, remain forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
  • Ezek 30:25 : 25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and Pharaoh's arms will fall down; and they will know that I am the LORD, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt.
  • Ezek 37:11-14 : 11 Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off. 12 Therefore prophesy and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. 13 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, 14 And shall put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall you know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, says the LORD.
  • Amos 9:8-9 : 8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says the LORD. 9 For behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
  • Mic 5:2 : 2 But you, Bethlehem Ephratah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to me the one who is to be ruler in Israel; whose origins have been from of old, from everlasting.
  • Hab 3:2 : 2 O LORD, I have heard Your speech, and was afraid; O LORD, revive Your work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.
  • Mal 3:6 : 6 For I am the LORD, I do not change; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed.
  • Acts 3:14 : 14 But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted to you;
  • Rev 1:11 : 11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What you see, write in a book, and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.