Verse 1

Then the LORD said to me, Go again, love a woman loved by her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Og Herren sa til meg: ‘Gå igjen og elsk en kvinne som er utro, slik som Herren elsker Israels sønner, selv om de vender seg til andre guder og elsker det som gir dem lykke.'

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Da sa Herren til meg: Gå, elsk en kvinne som er elsket av sin venn, men likevel driver hun hor. Slik som Herrens kjærlighet til Israels barn, som vender seg til andre guder og elsker vinens søte drikk.

• Norsk King James

  Da sa Herren til meg: Gå igjen, elsk en kvinne som er elsket av sin venn, men som likevel er utro mot ham, som en refleksjon av Herrens kjærlighet til Israels barn, som vender seg bort fra meg og tilber andre guder.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Og Herren sa til meg: Gå igjen, og elsk en kvinne som er elsket av en annen, og som har drevet hor, slik Herren elsker Israels barn selv om de vender seg til andre guder og elsker vinflaskene.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Gud sa til meg: "Gå igjen, og elsk en kvinne som har en elsker og bryter ekteskapet, slik som Herren elsker Israels barn, selv om de vender seg til andre guder og elsker rosinkaker."

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Så sa Herren til meg: Gå igjen, elsk en kvinne som elskes av sin venn, men som likevel er utro, slik som Herrens kjærlighet til Israels barn, som vender seg til andre guder og elsker vinranker.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Da sa HERREN til meg: «Gå, elsk en kvinne som er elsket av sin venn, men som likevel er utro, slik som HERRENs kjærlighet er til Israels barn, som vender seg mot andre guder og elsker vinkopper.»

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

  Så sa Herren til meg: Gå igjen, elsk en kvinne som elskes av sin venn, men som likevel er utro, slik som Herrens kjærlighet til Israels barn, som vender seg til andre guder og elsker vinranker.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Herren sa til meg: «Gå igjen, elsk en kvinne som er elsket av en annen og er en ekteskapsbryter, slik som Herren elsker Israels barn, selv om de vender seg til andre guder og elsker rosinkaker.»

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Then the Lord said to me, "Go again and love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes."

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Og Herren sa til meg: Gå igjen og elsk en kvinne som er elsket av en annen mann og likevel er en utro kvinne, slik som Herrens kjærlighet til Israels barn, som vender seg til andre guder og elsker rosinkaker.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Og Herren sagde til mig: Gak endnu, (og) elsk en Qvinde, som din Næste haver elsket, og som haver bedrevet Hor, efter den Kjærlighed, som Herren haver til Israels Børn, og de vendte (dog) Ansigtet til fremmede Guder og elskede Viinflaskerne.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, w look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Da sa Herren til meg: Gå, elsk en kvinne som er elsket av en annen mann, men likevel driver hor, slik som Herrens kjærlighet til Israels barn, selv om de vender seg mot andre guder og elsker vin.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Herren sa til meg: "Gå igjen, elsk en kvinne som er elsket av en annen, og som er en horkvinne, likesom Herren elsker Israels barn, selv om de vender seg til andre guder og elsker druekaker."

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Og Herren sa til meg: 'Gå igjen, elsk en kvinne elsket av en venn, og en horkvinne, slik Herren elsker Israels barn, selv om de vender seg til andre guder og elsker druekaker.'

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Og Herren sa til meg: Gå igjen og elsk en kvinne som er elsket av sin venn, men som er en horkvinne, slik som Herren elsker Israels barn, selv om de vender seg til andre guder og elsker rosinkaker.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Og Herren sa til meg: Gjør igjen din kjærlighet til en kvinne som har en elsker og er utro mot mannen sin, slik som Herren har kjærlighet for Israels barn, selv om de vender seg til andre guder og elsker druekaker.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Then sayde ye LORDE to me: Go yet yi waye & wowe an aduouterous woma, who thy neghboure loueth, as ye LORDE doth the childre of Israel: how be it they haue respecte to straunge goddes, and loue the wyne kannes.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Then said the Lord to me, Goe yet, and loue a woman (beloued of her husbande, and was an harlot) according to the loue of the Lorde toward the children of Israel: yet they looked to other gods, and loued the wine bottels.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Then sayd the Lorde to me: Go yet and loue a woman beloued of her husbande, and yet an adultresse, according to the loue of the Lorde towarde the chyldren of Israel: and yet they haue respect to straunge gods, and loue the wine pottes.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of [her] friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Yahweh said to me, "Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins."

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And Jehovah saith unto me: `Again, go, love a woman, loved of a friend, and an adulteress, like the loved of Jehovah, the sons of Israel, and they are turning unto other gods, and are lovers of grape-cakes.'

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And Jehovah said unto me, Go again, love a woman beloved of [her] friend, and an adulteress, even as Jehovah loveth the children of Israel, though they turn unto other gods, and love cakes of raisins.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And the Lord said to me, Give your love again to a woman who has a lover and is false to her husband, even as the Lord has love for the children of Israel, though they are turned to other gods and are lovers of grape-cakes.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Yahweh said to me, "Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins."

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  An Illustration of God’s Love for Idolatrous Israel The LORD said to me,“Go, show love to your wife again, even though she loves another man and continually commits adultery. Likewise, the LORD loves the Israelites although they turn to other gods and love to offer raisin cakes to idols.”

Referenced Verses

• Hos 1:2-3 : 2 The beginning of the word of the LORD through Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take for yourself a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry, for the land has committed great harlotry, departing from the LORD. 3 So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, who conceived and bore him a son.
• Jer 3:1-4 : 1 They say, If a man divorces his wife, and she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, shall he return to her again? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, says the LORD. 2 Lift up your eyes to the high places and see where you have not been violated. On the roads you have sat for them, like an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your whoredoms and your wickedness. 3 Therefore, the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a harlot's forehead, you refused to be ashamed. 4 Will you not from this time call to me, My Father, you are the guide of my youth?
• Jer 3:12-14 : 12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, backsliding Israel, says the LORD; and I will not cause my anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, says the LORD, and I will not keep anger forever. 13 Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the LORD your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, says the LORD. 14 Turn, O backsliding children, says the LORD; for I am married to you: and I will take you, one from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
• Jer 3:20 : 20 Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says the LORD.
• Jer 31:20 : 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.
• Hos 4:11 : 11 Harlotry and wine and new wine take away the heart.
• Hos 7:5 : 5 On the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he reaches out his hand with scorners.
• Hos 9:1-2 : 1 Do not rejoice, O Israel, like other peoples, for you have gone astray from your God; you have loved a reward upon every threshing floor. 2 The threshing floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
• Hos 11:8 : 8 How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I deliver you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I set you like Zeboim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is kindled together.
• Amos 2:8 : 8 They lie down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
• Amos 6:6 : 6 Who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the finest ointments: but are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
• Mic 7:7 : 7 Therefore I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
• Mic 7:18-20 : 18 Who is a God like you, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in mercy. 19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. 20 You will perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
• Zech 1:16 : 16 Therefore thus says the LORD: I am returning to Jerusalem with mercy; My house shall be built in it, says the LORD of hosts, and a measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.
• Matt 26:50 : 50 And Jesus said to him, Friend, why have you come? Then they came and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.
• Luke 1:54-55 : 54 He has helped His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy, 55 As He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed forever.
• 1 Cor 10:7 : 7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
• 1 Cor 10:21 : 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons: you cannot partake of the Lord's table and of the table of demons.
• 1 Pet 4:3 : 3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have done the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in sensuality, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
• Exod 32:6 : 6 They rose up early the next day, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
• Deut 7:6-7 : 6 For you are a holy people unto the LORD your God: the LORD your God has chosen you to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. 7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all people:
• Judg 9:27 : 27 And they went out into the fields, gathered their vineyards, trampled the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.
• Judg 10:16 : 16 And they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD; and His soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
• 2 Sam 6:19 : 19 And he gave to all the people, even the whole multitude of Israel, both the women and men, to everyone a cake of bread, a good piece of meat, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed, each to his house.
• 2 Kgs 13:23 : 23 The LORD was gracious to them, had compassion on them, and had regard for them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and he would not destroy them, nor cast them from his presence as yet.
• Neh 9:18-19 : 18 Even when they made a molten calf for themselves, and said, 'This is your God that brought you up out of Egypt,' and committed great provocations, 19 Yet in Your overwhelming mercies, You did not forsake them in the wilderness; the pillar of cloud did not depart from them by day to lead them on the way, nor the pillar of fire by night to show them light and the way they should go.
• Neh 9:31 : 31 Nevertheless, in Your great mercies, You did not utterly consume them nor forsake them; for You are a gracious and merciful God.
• Ps 106:43-46 : 43 Many times he delivered them, but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity. 44 Nevertheless, he regarded their affliction when he heard their cry. 45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and relented according to the multitude of his mercies. 46 He made those who carried them captives to pity them.
• Ps 123:2 : 2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, until he has mercy upon us.
• Isa 17:7-8 : 7 On that day a man shall look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect for the Holy One of Israel. 8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall he respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves or the images.
• Isa 45:22 : 22 Look to Me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is no other.