Verse 9

They all come for violence; their faces are set like the east wind, and they gather captives like sand.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Hele hæren kommer for å begå vold; deres ansikter er som en stormvind fra øst. De samler fanger som en landmann som høster korn fra åkeren.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  De kommer alle for vold, deres ansikter vender seg østover, og de samler fanger som sand.

• Norsk King James

  De kommer alle for å utøve vold; ansiktene deres er like den brennende østenvind, og de samler fangenskap som sand.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  De kommer alle for å utøve vold, ansiktene deres er satt mot øst, og de fanger fanger som sand.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  De kommer alle for vold, deres ansikter er tatt frem som vinden, og de samler fanger som sand.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Alle kommer for vold; deres ansikter er som den østlige vinden, og de samler fanger som sand.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  De kommer alle for å utøve vold; deres ansikter stiger opp som den østlige vinden, og de samler fangenskapet som sand.

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

  Alle kommer for vold; deres ansikter er som den østlige vinden, og de samler fanger som sand.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  De kommer alle for å utøve vold; deres ansikter er satt mot øst, og de samler fanger som sand.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  They all come for violence; their faces are set to advance. They gather captives like sand.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  De kommer alle for voldens skyld; deres ansikter er vendt fremover, og de samler fanger som sand.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Det kommer altsammen til at gjøre Vold, deres Ansigters Attraa (er vendt) mod Østen, og det sanker i Fængsel som Sand.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  De kommer alle for voldens skyld, ansiktene deres er lik et ørkenstorm, og de samler fangene som sand.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Alle kommer for vold. Deres horder vender seg mot ørkenen. Han samler fanger som sand.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  De kommer alle for å utøve vold, deres ansikter vender mot østvinden, og de samler fanger som sand.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  De kommer alle for vold, deres ansikter er vendt fremover; og de samler fanger som sand.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Alle kommer i voldsom kraft; deres ansikter er vendt fremover, fangene deres er som havets sand.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  They come all to spoyle: out of them commeth an east wynde, which bloweth and gathereth their captyues, like as the sonde.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  They come all to spoyle: before their faces shalbe an Eastwinde, and they shall gather the captiuitie, as the sand.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  They come all to spoyle: before their faces shalbe an eastwinde, and they shall gather the captiuitie as the sande.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up [as] the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Wholly for violence it doth come in, Their faces swallowing up the east wind, And it doth gather as the sand a captivity.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  They come all of them for violence; the set of their faces is forwards; and they gather captives as the sand.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  They are coming all of them with force; the direction of their faces is forward, the number of their prisoners is like the sands of the sea.

• World English Bible (2000)

  All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  All of them intend to do violence; every face is determined. They take prisoners as easily as one scoops up sand.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 41:49 : 49 Joseph gathered very much grain, as the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.
• Deut 28:51-52 : 51 And he shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed: which also shall not leave you either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of your kine, or flocks of your sheep, until he has destroyed you. 52 And he shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land: and he shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.
• Judg 7:12 : 12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay in the valley as numerous as locusts, and their camels were without number, as the sand by the seashore for multitude.
• Job 29:18 : 18 Then I said, 'I will die in my nest, and I will multiply my days as the sand.'
• Ps 139:18 : 18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with You.
• Isa 27:8 : 8 In measure, when it shoots forth, You will debate with it: He restrains His rough wind in the day of the east wind.
• Jer 4:7 : 7 The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the nations is on his way; he has gone forth from his place to make your land desolate; and your cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
• Jer 4:11 : 11 At that time it shall be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
• Jer 5:15-17 : 15 Behold, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, says the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, neither understand what they say. 16 Their quiver is like an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men. 17 And they shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat: they shall eat up your flocks and your herds: they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees: they shall impoverish your fortified cities, wherein you trusted, with the sword.
• Jer 15:8 : 8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noon: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
• Jer 25:9 : 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.
• Jer 34:22 : 22 Behold, I will command, says the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.
• Ezek 17:10 : 10 Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? Shall it not utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It shall wither in the furrows where it grew.
• Ezek 19:12 : 12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit; her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.
• Hos 1:10 : 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there it shall be said to them, You are the sons of the living God.
• Hos 13:15 : 15 Though he is fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
• Hab 1:6 : 6 For indeed I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation which marches through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwellingplaces that are not theirs.
• Hab 2:5-9 : 5 Indeed, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither stays at home, who enlarges his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all people: 6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him who increases that which is not his! How long? And to him who loads himself with thick clay! 7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that will bite you, and awake that will vex you, and you shall be for plunder to them? 8 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the people shall plunder you; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all who dwell therein. 9 Woe to him who covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! 10 You have consulted shame to your house by cutting off many people, and have sinned against your soul. 11 For the stone shall cry out from the wall, and the beam from the timber shall answer it. 12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity! 13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labor in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for mere vanity?
• Rom 9:27 : 27 Isaiah also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: