Verse 4

O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? for your goodness is like a morning cloud, and as the early dew it vanishes.

Other Translations

  • GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

    Hva kan jeg gjøre med deg, Efraim? Hva kan jeg gjøre med deg, Juda? Kjærligheten deres er som morgenens tåke; den forsvinner raskt, som dugg på jorden.

  • Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

    Hva skal jeg gjøre med deg, Efraim? Hva skal jeg gjøre med deg, Juda? For deres godhet er som en morgenky, som dugg som snart forsvinner.

  • Norsk King James

    Å, Efraim, hva skal jeg gjøre med deg? Å, Juda, hva skal jeg gjøre med deg? For din godhet er som en morgenrøyk, som duggen som snart forsvinner.

  • Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

    Hva skal jeg gjøre med deg, Efraim? Hva skal jeg gjøre med deg, Juda? For deres kjærlighet er lik en morgentåke, som dugg som forsvinner tidlig.

  • Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

    Hva skal jeg gjøre med deg, Efraim? Hva skal jeg gjøre med deg, Juda? Deres kjærlighet er som morgentåken, som duggen som tidlig forsvinner.

  • Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

    Hva skal jeg gjøre med deg, Efraim? Hva skal jeg gjøre med deg, Juda? For deres godhet er som en morgenkylling, som dugg som snart forsvinner.

  • o3-mini KJV Norsk

    Ø, Efraim, hva skal jeg gjøre mot deg? Ø, Juda, hva skal jeg gjøre mot deg? For deres godhet er som en morgen tåke, og den tidlige dugg forsvinner raskt.

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

    Hva skal jeg gjøre med deg, Efraim? Hva skal jeg gjøre med deg, Juda? For deres godhet er som en morgenkylling, som dugg som snart forsvinner.

  • Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

    Hva skal jeg gjøre med deg, Efraim? Hva skal jeg gjøre med deg, Juda? Deres troskap er som en morgen-sky, som dugg som tidlig forsvinner.

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    What shall I do with you, Ephraim? What shall I do with you, Judah? Your love is like the morning cloud, like the dew that disappears early.

  • biblecontext

    { "verseID": "Hosea.6.4", "source": "מָ֤ה אֶֽעֱשֶׂה־לְּךָ֙ אֶפְרַ֔יִם מָ֥ה אֶעֱשֶׂה־לְּךָ֖ יְהוּדָ֑ה וְחַסְדְּכֶם֙ כַּֽעֲנַן־בֹּ֔קֶר וְכַטַּ֖ל מַשְׁכִּ֥ים הֹלֵֽךְ׃", "text": "What *ʾe'ĕśeh*-to-you *ʾep̄rayim*, what *ʾe'ĕśeh*-to-you *yәhûḏāh*? And-*ḥasdәḵem* like-*'ănan*-*bōqer* and-like-the-*ṭal* *maškîm* *hōlēḵ*", "grammar": { "*ʾe'ĕśeh*": "imperfect, 1st person singular - I shall do", "*ʾep̄rayim*": "proper noun - Ephraim", "*yәhûḏāh*": "proper noun - Judah", "*ḥasdәḵem*": "noun + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your loyalty/devotion", "*'ănan*": "construct noun, masculine singular - cloud of", "*bōqer*": "noun, masculine singular - morning", "*ṭal*": "noun, masculine singular - dew", "*maškîm*": "Hiphil participle, masculine singular - rising early", "*hōlēḵ*": "Qal participle, masculine singular - going/disappearing" }, "variants": { "*ḥasdәḵem*": "your loyalty/your faithfulness/your loving-kindness/your covenant faithfulness", "*'ănan*": "cloud/mist", "*maškîm*": "early-rising/early-appearing", "*hōlēḵ*": "goes away/disappears/departs" } }

  • GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

    Hva skal jeg gjøre med deg, Efraim? Hva skal jeg gjøre med deg, Juda? Deres troskap er som morgentåken, som dugg som snart forsvinner.

  • Original Norsk Bibel 1866

    Hvad skal jeg gjøre ved dig, Ephraim? hvad skal jeg gjøre ved dig, Juda? thi eders Miskundhed er som en Sky om Morgenen, og som Duggen, der kommer aarle, som (snart gaaer) bort.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

  • KJV 1769 norsk

    Hva skal jeg gjøre med deg, Efraim? Hva skal jeg gjøre med deg, Juda? For deres kjærlighet er som en morgenens tåke, som duggen som tidlig forsvinner.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Webster

    «Efraim, hva skal jeg gjøre med deg? Juda, hva skal jeg gjøre med deg? For deres kjærlighet er som en morgenføre sky, som doggen som tidlig forsvinner.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

    Hva skal jeg gjøre med deg, Efraim? Hva skal jeg gjøre med deg, Juda? Deres trofasthet er som morgentåken, som dugg som forsvinner tidlig.

  • Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

    Hva skal jeg gjøre med deg, Efraim? Hva skal jeg gjøre med deg, Juda? For deres godhet er som en morgenrøyk, som dugg som svinner bort tidlig.

  • Norsk oversettelse av BBE

    Å Efraim, hva skal jeg gjøre med deg? Å Juda, hva skal jeg gjøre med deg? For deres kjærlighet er som en morgen-sky, som duggen som tidlig forsvinner.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    O Ephraim, what shal I do vnto the? O Iuda, how shal I intreate the? seynge youre loue is like a mornynge cloude, & like a dew yt goeth early awaye.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    O Ephraim, what shall I doe vnto thee? O Iudah, how shall I intreate thee? for your goodnesse is as a morning cloude, and as the morning dewe it goeth away.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    O Ephraim, what shall I do vnto thee? O Iuda, howe shall I intreate thee? for your goodnesse is lyke a morning cloude, & like a deawe that goeth early away.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness [is] as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    "Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, And like the dew that disappears early.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    What do I do to thee, O Ephraim? What do I do to thee, O Judah? Your goodness `is' as a cloud of the morning, And as dew rising early -- going.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth early away.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    "Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Transitory Faithfulness and Imminent Judgment What am I going to do with you, O Ephraim? What am I going to do with you, O Judah? For your faithfulness is as fleeting as the morning mist; it disappears as quickly as dawn’s dew!

Referenced Verses

  • 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.
  • Hos 13:3 : 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
  • Ps 78:34-37 : 34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and sought diligently after God. 35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer. 36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues. 37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant.
  • Ps 106:12-13 : 12 Then they believed his words; they sang his praise. 13 They soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.
  • Isa 5:3-4 : 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard. 4 What more could have been done to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to bring forth grapes, did it bring forth wild grapes?
  • Jer 3:10 : 10 And yet for all this, her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to me with her whole heart, but in pretension, says the LORD.
  • Jer 3:19 : 19 But I said, How shall I put you among the children and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? And I said, You shall call me, My Father; and shall not turn away from me.
  • Jer 5:7 : 7 How shall I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
  • Jer 5:9 : 9 Shall I not visit for these things? says the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
  • Jer 5:23 : 23 But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they have revolted and gone.
  • Jer 9:7 : 7 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and test them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
  • Jer 34:15 : 15 And you had now turned and done what was right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and you had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name.
  • Matt 13:21 : 21 But they have no root and last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.
  • Luke 13:7-9 : 7 Then he said to the keeper of his vineyard, Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why does it use up the ground? 8 And he answered and said to him, Lord, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it: 9 And if it bears fruit, well: and if not, then after that you shall cut it down.
  • Luke 19:41-42 : 41 And when he came near, he saw the city and wept over it, 42 Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
  • 2 Pet 2:20-22 : 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. 21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: "The dog returns to his own vomit," and "the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire."
  • Judg 2:18-19 : 18 And when the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings due to those who oppressed them and vexed them. 19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them and to bow down to them; they did not cease from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.
  • Hos 7:1 : 1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was exposed, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief comes in, and the gang of robbers plunders outside.