Verse 16

For Israel is stubborn like a stubborn calf: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large space.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  For Israel er opprørsk som en ville kalv. Skulle Herren la dem bli som sauer som beiter på en stor eng?

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  For Israel er en trassig kvige som glir tilbake. Nå skal Herren føre dem som et lam på åpen mark.

• Norsk King James

  For Israel faller tilbake som en vill kvige; nå vil Herren gi dem mat som lam i en stor eng.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  For Israel er halsstarrig som en gjenstridig ku; nå skal Herren lede dem som et lam i åpne marker.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  For Israel er som en trassig kvige; nå vil Herren lede dem som et lam på en åpen slette.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  For Israel er gjerrig som en ustyrlig kvige, nå vil Herren føre dem som et lam til å beite i et stort åpnet område.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  For Israel sklir tilbake som en fromlugt kalv; nå vil Herren gjødsle dem som et lam på en vid mark.

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

  For Israel er gjerrig som en ustyrlig kvige, nå vil Herren føre dem som et lam til å beite i et stort åpnet område.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Israel er en motvillig kvige. Skal Herren nå føre dem som lam på beite i romslig land?

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  For Israel is as stubborn as a rebellious heifer. Now the LORD will pasture them like a lamb in an open field.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Israel er sta som en sta ku. Hvordan kan da Herren fø dem som lam på en eng?

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Thi Israel var uregjerlig som en uregjerlig Ko; nu skal Herren føde dem som et Lam paa et rumt Sted.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  For Israel er på gled som en gjenstridig kvige. Nå vil Herren drive dem som et lam i et åpent område.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  For Israel har oppført seg ekstremt sta, som en sta kvige. Da, hvordan skal Herren føre dem som et lam på beite?

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  For Israel er som en sta ku som ikke vil la seg lede. Nå vil Herren finne dem som et lam på en åpen mark.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  For Israel har oppført seg sta som en gjenstridig kvige; nå vil Herren fø dem som et lam på et stort område.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  For Israel er som en ukontrollert ku, nå vil Herren gi dem mat som et lam på et stort beite.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For Israel is gone backe, like a waton cowe. The LORDE therfore shal make hir fede, as ye labe yt goeth astraye.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For Israel is rebellious as an vnruly heyfer. Nowe the Lord will feede them as a lambe in a large place.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For Israel is rebellious like an vnrulye heysfer: nowe the Lorde wyll feede them as a lambe in a large place.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  For as a refractory heifer hath Israel turned aside, Now doth Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For Israel hath behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer: now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For Israel is uncontrolled, like a cow which may not be controlled; now will the Lord give them food like a lamb in a wide place.

• World English Bible (2000)

  For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Israel has rebelled like a stubborn heifer! Soon the LORD will put them out to pasture like a lamb in a broad field!

Referenced Verses

• Lev 26:33 : 33 And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
• 1 Sam 15:11 : 11 It grieves Me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried to the LORD all night.
• Isa 5:17 : 17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
• Isa 7:21-25 : 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow and two sheep; 22 And it shall come to pass, because of the abundance of milk that they shall give, he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall everyone eat who is left in the land. 23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns. 24 With arrows and with bows shall men come there; because all the land shall become briers and thorns. 25 And on all hills that shall be dug with the mattock, there shall not come the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
• Isa 22:18 : 18 He will surely violently turn and toss you like a ball into a large country: there you shall die, and there the chariots of your glory shall be the shame of your lord's house.
• Jer 3:6 : 6 The LORD also said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.
• Jer 3:8 : 8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.
• Jer 3:11 : 11 And the LORD said to me, Backsliding Israel has justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
• Jer 5:6 : 6 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: everyone that goes out from there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings have increased.
• Jer 7:24 : 24 But they did not listen, nor incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
• Jer 8:5 : 5 Why then has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, they refuse to return.
• Jer 14:7 : 7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, act for Your name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against You.
• Hos 11:7 : 7 And my people are determined to backslide from me; though they called them to the Most High, none at all would exalt him.
• Zech 7:11 : 11 But they refused to heed, and shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears, so they should not hear.