Verse 21

How the faithful city has become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

Other Translations

  • GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

    Hvordan er den trofaste byen blitt til en hore! Hun som var full av rettferd, rett bodde i henne, men nå - mordere.

  • Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

    Hvordan har den trofaste byen blitt en horkvinne! Den var full av rettferdighet; rettferdighet bodde i den, men nå mordere.

  • Norsk King James

    Hvordan har den trofaste byen blitt en hor! Den var full av rettferdighet; rettferdighet bodde i den; men nå mordere.

  • Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

    Hvordan har den trofaste byen blitt til en hore? Den var full av rett, rettferdighet bodde der, men nå er det mordere.

  • Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

    Hvordan har den trofaste byen blitt til en hore? Full av rettferd bodde hun, rettferdighet bodde der, men nå er det mordere.

  • Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

    Hvordan er den trofaste byen blitt en skjøge! Den var full av rett, rettferdighet bodde der, men nå, mordere.

  • o3-mini KJV Norsk

    Hvordan har den trofaste by blitt en hore! Den var fylt med rettferdighet, og rettferdighet var bosatt der, men nå er den full av mordere.

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

    Hvordan er den trofaste byen blitt en skjøge! Den var full av rett, rettferdighet bodde der, men nå, mordere.

  • Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

    Hvordan har den trofaste byen blitt en hore! Hun som var full av rettferdighet, rettferdighet bodde i henne, men nå mordere.

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness once dwelt in her, but now murderers.

  • biblecontext

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  • GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

    Hvordan har den trofaste byen blitt en hore? Den var full av rett, rettferdighet bodde i den, men nå er det mordere.

  • Original Norsk Bibel 1866

    Hvorledes er en trofast Stad bleven til en Hore? den var fuld af Ret, Retfærdighed blev om Natten derudi, men nu Mordere.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

  • KJV 1769 norsk

    Hvordan har den trofaste byen blitt en skjøge! Den var full av dom; rettferdighet bodde i den, men nå mordere.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Webster

    Hvordan har den trofaste byen blitt en skjøge! Hun var full av rett, rettferdighet bodde i henne, men nå mordere.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

    Hvordan er den trofaste byen blitt en skjøge? Jeg har fyllt den med rettferdighet, rett bodde i den, nå er det mordere.

  • Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

    Hvordan er den trofaste byen blitt til en skjøge! Hun som var full av rettferdighet! Rettferd bodde i henne, men nå er der mordere.

  • Norsk oversettelse av BBE

    Den rette byen har blitt falsk; det var en tid da hennes dommere avsa rette avgjørelser, da rettferdighet hadde et hvilested i henne, men nå er hun full av de som tar menneskeliv.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    How happeneth it then that the rightuous citie (which was full of equite) is become vnfaithfull as an whore? rightuousnes dwelt in it, but now murthur.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Howe is the faithfull citie become an harlot? It was full of iudgement, and iustice lodged therein, but now they are murtherers.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Howe happeneth it then that the righteous citie which was full of equitie, is become vnfaythfull as a whore? Righteousnesse dwelt in it, but nowe murtherers.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, But now murderers.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    How hath a faithful city become a harlot? I have filled it `with' judgment, Righteousness lodgeth in it -- now murderers.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Purifying Judgment How tragic that the once-faithful city has become a prostitute! She was once a center of justice, fairness resided in her, but now only murderers.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 8:15 : 15 And David reigned over all Israel, and David executed judgment and justice for all his people.
  • 2 Chr 19:9 : 9 And he charged them, saying, This you shall do in the fear of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
  • Neh 11:1 : 1 And the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem: the rest of the people cast lots, to bring one of ten to live in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts to live in other cities.
  • Ps 46:4 : 4 There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
  • Ps 48:1 : 1 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in His holy mountain.
  • Ps 48:8 : 8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it forever. Selah.
  • Isa 5:7 : 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry.
  • Isa 48:2 : 2 For they call themselves citizens of the holy city and rely on the God of Israel; the LORD of hosts is his name.
  • Isa 57:3-9 : 3 But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the offspring of the adulterer and the whore. 4 Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood, 5 Inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the cliffs of the rocks? 6 Among the smooth stones of the stream is your portion; they, they are your lot. To them you have poured a drink offering, you have offered a meat offering. Should I find comfort in these? 7 On a lofty and high mountain you have set your bed; even there you went up to offer sacrifice. 8 Behind the doors and the posts you have set up your remembrance; for you have revealed yourself to another than me, and are gone up; you have enlarged your bed and made a covenant with them; you loved their bed where you saw it. 9 And you went to the king with ointment, and increased your perfumes, and sent your messengers far off, and debased yourself even unto hell.
  • Jer 2:20-21 : 20 For from of old I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree you wandered, playing the harlot. 21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then have you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to me?
  • Jer 3:1 : 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.
  • Lam 1:8-9 : 8 Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yes, she sighs, and turns backward. 9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she does not remember her last end; therefore she came down astonishingly: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction, for the enemy has magnified himself.
  • Ezek 16:1-9 : 1 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, make Jerusalem aware of her abominations, 3 And say, Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem; Your birth and your nativity are from the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite. 4 And as for your nativity, on the day you were born your navel was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing; you were not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. 5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things for you, to have compassion upon you; but you were cast out into the open field, to the loathing of your person, on the day you were born. 6 And when I passed by you, and saw you polluted in your own blood, I said to you when you were in your blood, Live; yes, I said to you when you were in your blood, Live. 7 I have caused you to multiply like the bud of the field, and you have increased and grown great, and you have come to excellent ornaments; your breasts are formed, and your hair has grown, whereas you were naked and bare. 8 Now when I passed by you, and looked upon you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my garment over you, and covered your nakedness; yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord GOD, and you became mine. 9 Then I washed you with water; yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil. 10 I clothed you also with embroidered work, and shod you with badger's skin, and I wrapped you about with fine linen, and I covered you with silk. 11 I adorned you also with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck. 12 And I put a jewel on your forehead, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head. 13 Thus you were adorned with gold and silver; and your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered work; you ate fine flour, honey, and oil; you were exceedingly beautiful, and you prospered into a kingdom. 14 And your fame went out among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect through my splendor, which I had bestowed upon you, says the Lord GOD. 15 But you trusted in your own beauty, and played the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your fornications on everyone that passed by; it was his. 16 And of your garments you took, and decked your high places with different colors, and played the harlot thereupon; such things shall not come, nor shall it be so. 17 You have also taken your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and committed whoredom with them, 18 And took your embroidered garments, and covered them; and you have set my oil and my incense before them. 19 My food also which I gave you, fine flour, oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you have even set it before them for a sweet aroma; and thus it was, says the Lord GOD. 20 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Is this of your whoredoms a small matter, 21 That you have slain my children and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them? 22 And in all your abominations and your whoredoms you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were polluted in your blood. 23 And it came to pass after all your wickedness, (woe, woe unto you! says the Lord GOD;) 24 That you have also built yourself an eminent place, and have made yourself a high place in every street. 25 You have built your high place at every head of the way, and have made your beauty to be abhorred, and have opened your feet to everyone that passed by, and multiplied your whoredoms. 26 You have also committed fornication with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have increased your whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. 27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary food, and delivered you to the will of those that hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way. 28 You have played the harlot also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the harlot with them, and yet could not be satisfied. 29 You have moreover multiplied your fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea, and yet you were not satisfied with this. 30 How weak is your heart, says the Lord GOD, seeing you do all these things, the work of an imperious, whorish woman; 31 In that you build your eminent place at the head of every way, and make your high place in every street; and have not been as a harlot, that scorns payment; 32 But as a wife that commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband! 33 They give gifts to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and hire them, that they may come to you on every side for your whoredom. 34 And the opposite is in you from other women in your whoredoms, in that none pursue you to commit whoredoms; and in that you give a reward, and no reward is given to you, therefore you are contrary. 35 Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD; 36 Thus says the Lord GOD; Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your whoredoms with your lovers, and with all the idols of your abominations, and by the blood of your children, which you gave to them: 37 Behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those that you have loved, with all those that you have hated; I will even gather them round about against you, and will uncover your nakedness unto them, that they may see all your nakedness. 38 And I will judge you, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give you blood in fury and jealousy. 39 And I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your eminent place, and shall break down your high places; they shall strip you also of your clothes, and shall take your beautiful jewels, and leave you naked and bare. 40 They shall also bring up an assembly against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords. 41 And they shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women; and I will cause you to cease from playing the harlot, and you also shall give no remuneration any more. 42 So will I make my fury toward you to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from you, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry. 43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have grieved me in all these things; behold, therefore I will recompense your way upon your head, says the Lord GOD; and you shall not commit this lewdness above all your abominations. 44 Behold, everyone that uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. 45 You are your mother's daughter, that loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathe their husbands and their children; your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. 46 And your elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at your left hand; and your younger sister, that dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. 47 Yet you have not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as if that were a very little thing, you were corrupted more than they in all your ways. 48 As I live, says the Lord GOD, neither has your sister Sodom and her daughters done anything as you have done, you and your daughters. 49 Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit. 51 Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters in all your abominations which you have done. 52 You also, who have judged your sisters, bear your own shame for your sins that you have committed more abominable than they; they are more righteous than you; yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters. 53 When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of your captives in the midst of them; 54 That you may bear your own shame, and may be confounded in all that you have done, in that you are a comfort unto them. 55 When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, then you and your daughters shall return to your former state. 56 For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride, 57 Before your wickedness was discovered, as at the time of your reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, who despise you round about. 58 You have borne your lewdness and your abominations, says the LORD. 59 For thus says the Lord GOD; I will even deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant. 60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish unto you an everlasting covenant. 61 Then you shall remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, your elder and your younger; and I will give them unto you for daughters, but not by your covenant. 62 And I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that I am the LORD: 63 That you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I am pacified toward you for all that you have done, says the Lord GOD.
  • Ezek 22:1-9 : 1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Now, you son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Yes, you shall show her all her abominations. 3 Then say, Thus says the Lord GOD, The city sheds blood in its midst, that her time may come, and makes idols against herself to defile herself. 4 You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and have defiled yourself with your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and have come even to your years: therefore I have made you a reproach to the heathen, and a mocking to all countries. 5 Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you, who are infamous and much vexed. 6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one, were in you using their power to shed blood. 7 In you they have treated father and mother with contempt: in your midst they have dealt oppressively with the stranger: in you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow. 8 You have despised My holy things, and have profaned My sabbaths. 9 In you are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in you they eat on the mountains: in the midst of you they commit lewdness. 10 In you they have uncovered their fathers' nakedness: in you they have humbled her who was set apart for impurity. 11 One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter. 12 In you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken usury and increase, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me, says the Lord GOD. 13 Behold, therefore I have struck My hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been in your midst. 14 Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days when I shall deal with you? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it. 15 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and disperse you in the countries, and will purge your filthiness out of you. 16 And you shall take your inheritance in yourself in the sight of the heathen, and you shall know that I am the LORD. 17 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 18 Son of man, the house of Israel is to Me like dross: all of them are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver. 19 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. 20 As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in My anger and in My fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you. 21 Yes, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of My wrath, and you shall be melted in its midst. 22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall you be melted in its midst; and you shall know that I the LORD have poured out My fury upon you. 23 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  • Hos 11:12 : 12 Ephraim surrounds me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God, and is faithful with the saints.
  • Mic 3:2-3 : 2 Who hate good and love evil; who strip their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, like meat for the pot, and like flesh within the cauldron.
  • Zeph 3:1-3 : 1 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! 2 She did not obey the voice; she did not receive correction; she did not trust in the LORD; she did not draw near to her God. 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they do not gnaw the bones until the morning.
  • Zech 8:3 : 3 Thus says the LORD; I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts, the holy mountain.
  • Luke 13:34 : 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets, and stone those who are sent to you; how often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!
  • Acts 7:52 : 52 Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? And they have killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers,
  • Heb 12:22 : 22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels,
  • Rev 11:2 : 2 But leave out the court outside the temple, and do not measure it; for it is given to the Gentiles, and they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months.
  • Rev 11:8 : 8 And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.