Verse 15

I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me earnestly.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Jeg vil gå tilbake til mitt sted, inntil de innser sin synd og søker mitt ansikt. I sin nød skal de lete ivrig etter meg.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Jeg vil gå og vende tilbake til mitt sted, til de erkjenner sin skyld og søker mitt ansikt; i deres trengsel vil de ivrig søke meg.

• Norsk King James

  Jeg vil gå og vende tilbake til min plass inntil de erkjenner sin synd og søker mitt ansikt; i sin nød vil de søke meg tidlig.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Jeg vil dra meg tilbake til mitt sted inntil de erkjenner sin skyld og søker mitt ansikt; i sin trengsel skal de søke meg alvorlig.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Jeg vil dra tilbake til mitt sted, inntil de erkjenner sin skyld og søker mitt ansikt. I deres nød vil de søke meg ivrig.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Jeg vil gå bort og vende tilbake til mitt sted, til de erkjenner sin skyld og søker mitt åsyn; i sin nød vil de tidlig lete etter meg.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Jeg skal gå og vende tilbake til min plass, inntil de erkjenner sin overtredelse og søker mitt ansikt; i sin nød vil de søke meg tidlig.

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

  Jeg vil gå bort og vende tilbake til mitt sted, til de erkjenner sin skyld og søker mitt åsyn; i sin nød vil de tidlig lete etter meg.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Jeg vil gå og vende tilbake til mitt sted, inntil de erkjenner sin skyld og søker mitt ansikt. I sin nød vil de søke meg flittig.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  I will return to my place until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face; in their distress they will earnestly seek me.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Jeg vil gå tilbake til mitt sted, inntil de erkjenner sin skyld og søker mitt ansikt. I sin nød vil de søke meg ivrig.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Jeg vil gaae, jeg vil vende tilbage til mit Sted, indtil de kjende deres Skyld og søge mit Ansigt; naar de ere i Angest, skulle de aarle søge mig.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Jeg vil gå min vei og vende tilbake til min plass, til de erkjenner sin skyld og søker mitt ansikt. I sin nød vil de søke meg tidlig.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Jeg vil gå og vende tilbake til mitt sted, inntil de erkjenner sin skyld, og søker mitt ansikt. I sin nød vil de søke meg alvorlig."

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Jeg går, jeg vender tilbake til mitt sted, inntil de erkjenner sin synd og søker mitt ansikt. I sin nød vil de finne meg raskt!

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Jeg vil gå og vende tilbake til mitt sted, til de erkjenner sin skyld og søker mitt ansikt: i sin nød vil de søke meg inderlig.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Jeg vil vende tilbake til mitt sted til de blir ødelagt; i sin nød vil de søke meg tidlig og vil lete etter meg.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  I wil go, and returne to my place, till they waxe faynt, and seke me.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  I will go, and returne to my place, til they acknowledge their fault, and seeke me: in their affliction they will seeke me diligently.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  I wyll go and returne to my place, tyll they knowledge that they haue sinned and seeke me. In their aduersitie they shall early seeke me.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  I will go [and] return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, And seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly."

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  I go -- I turn back unto My place, Till that they are desolate, and have sought My face. In their distress they do seek Me speedily!'

• American Standard Version (1901)

  I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me earnestly.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.

• World English Bible (2000)

  I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly."

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Then I will return again to my lair until they have suffered their punishment. Then they will seek me; in their distress they will earnestly seek me.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 78:34 : 34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and sought diligently after God.
• Isa 26:16 : 16 LORD, in trouble they have visited You, they poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.
• Ps 50:15 : 15 And call upon Me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.
• Jer 2:27 : 27 Saying to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back to me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
• Jer 3:13 : 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.
• Jer 29:12-14 : 12 Then you will call upon me, and you will go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart. 14 And I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD; and I will bring you back to the place from which I caused you to be carried away captive.
• Isa 26:21 : 21 For behold, the LORD comes out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; the earth also will disclose her blood and will no more cover her slain.
• Ezek 6:9 : 9 And those of you who escape shall remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, because I am grieved by their adulterous heart, which has departed from me, and by their eyes, which go lusting after their idols; and they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
• Hos 3:5 : 5 Afterward, the children of Israel shall return, and seek the LORD their God and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the last days.
• Lev 26:40-42 : 40 If they shall confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary to me; 41 And that I also have walked contrary to them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity: 42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
• Deut 4:29-31 : 29 But if from there you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30 When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you, even in the latter days, if you turn to the LORD your God, and be obedient to his voice; 31 (For the LORD your God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
• Ezek 36:31 : 31 Then you shall remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
• Isa 26:9 : 9 With my soul I have desired You in the night; yes, with my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
• Luke 13:25 : 25 When once the master of the house has arisen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us; and he will answer and say to you, I do not know you, where you are from:
• Dan 9:4-9 : 4 And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps the covenant and mercy with those who love Him and keep His commandments; 5 We have sinned and committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and from Your judgments: 6 Neither have we listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 7 O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us belongs confusion of face, as it is this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those near and those far off, through all the countries where You have driven them, because of their trespass which they have trespassed against You. 8 O Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against You. 9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him; 10 Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by His servants the prophets. 11 Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, even by departing, that they might not obey Your voice; therefore, the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against Him. 12 And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great calamity: for under the whole heaven, such as has been done upon Jerusalem has not been done.
• Deut 30:1-3 : 1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where the LORD your God has driven you, 2 And shall return to the LORD your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul; 3 Then the LORD your God will end your captivity, and have compassion upon you, and will return and gather you from all the nations, where the LORD your God has scattered you.
• Ps 83:16 : 16 Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O LORD.
• Ps 132:14 : 14 This is My resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
• Prov 1:27-28 : 27 When your fear comes like desolation, and your destruction comes like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you. 28 Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
• Prov 8:17 : 17 I love those who love me; and those who seek me early shall find me.
• Judg 6:6-7 : 6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites, and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD. 7 And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD because of the Midianites,
• Judg 10:10-16 : 10 And the children of Israel cried out to the LORD, saying, We have sinned against You, both because we have forsaken our God and also served the Baals. 11 And the LORD said to the children of Israel, Did I not deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines? 12 The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites oppressed you; and you cried out to Me, and I delivered you from their hand. 13 Yet you have forsaken Me and served other gods; therefore, I will deliver you no more. 14 Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen; let them deliver you in your time of distress. 15 And the children of Israel said to the LORD, We have sinned: do to us whatever seems good to You, but please deliver us this day. 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.
• 1 Kgs 8:10-13 : 10 And it came to pass, when the priests came out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD, 11 So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD. 12 Then Solomon spoke: The LORD said that he would dwell in thick darkness. 13 I have surely built you a house to dwell in, a settled place for you to abide in forever.
• 1 Kgs 8:47-48 : 47 Yet if they shall come to themselves in the land where they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness; 48 And so return to you with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, who led them away captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name:
• 2 Chr 6:36-37 : 36 If they sin against you, (for there is no man who does not sin,) and you are angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captive to a land far off or near; 37 Yet if they come to themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn and pray to you in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done wrong, and have dealt wickedly;
• 2 Chr 7:14 : 14 If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
• 2 Chr 33:12-13 : 12 And when he was in distress, he sought the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13 And he prayed to him, and he was entreated of him and heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.
• Neh 1:8-9 : 8 Remember, I beg You, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, If you transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations: 9 But if you turn to Me, and keep My commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out to the farthest part of the heaven, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen to set My name there.
• Job 27:8-9 : 8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul? 9 Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him? 10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? Will he always call upon God?
• Job 33:27 : 27 He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned and perverted what was right, and it did not profit me;
• Hos 5:6 : 6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them.
• Hos 14:1-3 : 1 O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity. 2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say to him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so we will offer the sacrifice of our lips. 3 Assyria will not save us; we will not ride on horses: neither will we say anymore to the work of our hands, You are our gods: for in you the orphan finds mercy.
• Mic 1:3 : 3 For behold, the LORD comes forth out of his place, and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.
• Zeph 2:1-3 : 1 Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, O nation not desired; 2 Before the decree comes forth, before the day passes like chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the day of the LORD'S anger comes upon you. 3 Seek the LORD, all you meek of the earth, who have carried out His judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be you shall be hidden in the day of the LORD'S anger.
• Ezek 8:6 : 6 He said furthermore to me, Son of man, do you see what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel commits here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn yet again, and you shall see greater abominations.
• Ezek 10:4 : 4 Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD's glory.
• Ezek 11:23 : 23 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
• Ezek 20:43 : 43 And there you shall remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have been defiled; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.
• Isa 64:5-9 : 5 You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those that remember you in your ways: behold, you are angry; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved. 6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. 7 And there is none who calls upon your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you: for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities. 8 But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand. 9 Do not be very angry, O LORD, neither remember iniquity forever: behold, see, we beseech you, we are all your people.
• Exod 25:21-22 : 21 And you shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you. 22 There I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, of everything which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel.
• 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.
• Judg 4:3 : 3 And the children of Israel cried to the LORD, for Sisera had nine hundred chariots of iron, and for twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.