Verse 23

Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they do not judge the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Dine fyrster er opprørske lederne og kompanjonger med tyver; alle elsker bestikkelser og jager etter gaver. De forsvarer ikke den farløse, og enkens sak når ikke fram til dem.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Dine fyrster er opprørske og følgesvenner til tyver: hver og en elsker bestikkelser og jager etter belønninger: de dømmer ikke den farløse, enkens sak kommer ikke fram for dem.

• Norsk King James

  Dine prinser er opprørske og følgesvenner av tyver: hver eneste elsker gaver og jager etter belønning: de dømmer ikke de farløse, og enkenes sak kommer ikke til dem.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Dine ledere er opprørske og venn med tyver, alle elsker bestikkelser og jager etter gaver; de forsvarer ikke den farløses sak, og enkens sak kommer ikke fram for dem.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Dine ledere er opprørere og venner av tyver. Alle elsker bestikkelser og jager etter gaver. De forsvarer ikke den farløse, den enkes sak kommer ikke fram for dem.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Dine fyrster er opprørere og kamerater med tyver: alle elsker bestikkelser og jager etter belønninger, de dømmer ikke den farløse, og enkens sak kommer ikke fram til dem.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Dine fyrster er opprørske og ledsager tyver; alle elsker bestikkelser og følger etter belønning, de dømmer ikke for den foreldreløse, og enkens sak når dem ikke.

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

  Dine fyrster er opprørere og kamerater med tyver: alle elsker bestikkelser og jager etter belønninger, de dømmer ikke den farløse, og enkens sak kommer ikke fram til dem.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Dine fyrster er opprørere, og kompanjonger med tyver. Alle elsker bestikkelser og jager etter belønninger. De forsvarer ikke de farløse, og enkens sak kommer ikke fram for dem.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Your rulers are rebellious and companions of thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the fatherless, and the widow's case never comes before them.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Dine høvdinger er opprørske, venner med tyver; alle elsker bestikkelser, jakter på gaver. De forsvarer ikke den farløse, enkeens sak kommer ikke før dem.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Dine Fyrster ere modvillige og Tyvenes Staldbrødre, de elske alle Skjenk og jage efter Gaver; de ville ikke skaffe en Faderløs Ret, og Enkens Sag maa ikke komme for dem.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Dine fyrster er opprørere og kamerater med tyver; hver og en elsker bestikkelser og jager etter belønninger. De dømmer ikke de farløse, og enkenes sak kommer ikke frem for dem.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Fyrstene dine er opprørere og kamerater av tyver. Alle elsker bestikkelser og jager etter belønninger. De dømmer ikke den farløse, og enkens sak kommer ikke til dem.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Dine fyrster er frafalne og venner av tyver, enhver elsker bestikkelser og løper etter gaver, den farløse dømmer de ikke, enkas sak når ikke fram til dem.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Dine fyrster er opprørske, og kamerater med tyver; alle elsker bestikkelser og jakter etter belønninger: de dømmer ikke den farløse, og enkens sak kommer ikke til dem.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Dine ledere har gått imot Herren, de har blitt venn med tyver; hver og en søker egen vinning og jager etter belønninger; de gir ikke rette avgjørelser for barnet som ikke har far, og de lar ikke enkens sak komme frem for dem.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Thy prynces are traytours and companyons of theues. They loue giftes altogether, and folowe rewardes. As for the fatherles, they helpe him not to his right, nether wil they let the wydowes causes come before them.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Thy Princes are rebellious and companions of theeues: euery one loueth giftes, and followeth after rewards: they iudge not the fatherlesse, neither doeth the widowes cause come before them.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Thy princes are wicked, and companions of theeues: they loue gyftes altogether, and gape for rewardes: As for the fatherlesse they helpe hym not to his ryght, neither wyll they let the widdowes causes come before them.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, Neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Thy princes `are' apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Your officials are rebels, they associate with thieves. All of them love bribery, and look for payoffs. They do not take up the cause of the orphan, or defend the rights of the widow.

Referenced Verses

• Exod 23:8 : 8 And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous.
• Mic 7:3 : 3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
• Zech 7:10 : 10 And do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you plot evil against his brother in your heart.
• Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who oppress the laborer in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.
• Matt 21:13 : 13 And said to them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves.
• Mark 11:17 : 17 And he taught, saying to them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but you have made it a den of thieves.
• Luke 18:2-5 : 2 Saying, There was in a city a judge who did not fear God, nor regard man: 3 And there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, Avenge me of my adversary. 4 And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I do not fear God, nor regard man; 5 Yet because this widow troubles me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
• Luke 19:46 : 46 Saying to them, It is written, My house is a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.
• Acts 4:5-9 : 5 And it came to pass on the next day that their rulers, elders, and scribes, 6 Along with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and as many as were of the family of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem. 7 And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power or by what name have you done this? 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people and elders of Israel, 9 If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well, 10 Let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. 11 This is the stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.
• Deut 16:19 : 19 You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality, nor take a bribe: for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.
• 2 Chr 24:17-21 : 17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and paid homage to the king. Then the king listened to them. 18 And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols; and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass. 19 Yet He sent prophets to them, to bring them again to the LORD; and they testified against them, but they would not listen. 20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood above the people, and said to them, Thus says God, Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has also forsaken you. 21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
• 2 Chr 36:14 : 14 Moreover, all the leaders of the priests and the people transgressed greatly after all the abominations of the nations, and polluted the house of the LORD which he had sanctified in Jerusalem.
• Prov 17:23 : 23 A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom, to pervert the ways of justice.
• Prov 29:24 : 24 Whoever is a partner with a thief hates his own soul; he hears cursing, and does not reveal it.
• Isa 3:14 : 14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of His people, and their princes: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
• Isa 10:1-2 : 1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and who write out oppressive laws they have prescribed; 2 To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
• Isa 33:15 : 15 He who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from holding bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;
• Jer 5:5 : 5 I will go to the great men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
• Jer 5:28-29 : 28 They have grown fat, they shine: yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked: they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy they do not judge. 29 Shall I not visit for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
• Jer 22:17 : 17 But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.
• Ezek 22:6-9 : 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.
• Dan 9:5-6 : 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.
• Hos 4:18 : 18 Their drink is sour; they have committed harlotry continually; her rulers dearly love dishonor.
• Hos 7:3-5 : 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. 4 They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker, who ceases from stirring after he has kneaded the dough, until it is leavened. 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 9:15 : 15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them; for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.
• Mic 3:1-3 : 1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O leaders of Jacob, and you rulers of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know justice? 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.
• Mic 3:11 : 11 The leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.