Verse 1

Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and who write out oppressive laws they have prescribed;

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Ve dem som vedtar lover av urett og dem som skriver ned onde lover.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Ve dem som vedtar urettferdige vedtak, og som skriver forordninger som bringer sorg.

• Norsk King James

  Ve dem som fastsetter urettferdige lover og skriver ned alvorlige overtramp;

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Ve dem som vedtar urettferdige lover, og de skriverne som skriver urett.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Ve dem til dem som lager urettferdige lover, og for skrifteknikker som fører urett.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Ve dem som gir ugudelige påbud og skriver opp undertrykkende lover de har foreskrevet.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Ve dem som fastsetter urettferdige lover og nedtegner den grusomhet de har påbudt;

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

  Ve dem som gir ugudelige påbud og skriver opp undertrykkende lover de har foreskrevet.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Ve dem som utsteder urettferdige lover og som skriver undertrykkende vedtak.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Woe to those who enact unjust decrees and to those who write oppressive laws.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Ve dem til de som stifter urettferdige lover, de som forskriver elendighet som de har skrevet ned.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Vee dem, som beskikke uretfærdige Skikke, og de Skrivere, som skrive Møie,

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Ve over dem som gir urettferdige påbud, og dem som skriver undertrykkende lover som de har foreskrevet;

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Ve dem som vedtar urettferdige lover, og de skriverne som skriver ondskap.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Ve dem som uttaler urettferdige påbud, og skriver ordrer om ondskap.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Ve dem som fatter urettferdige vedtak, og skriver ned ondskap;

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Forbannet er de som tar onde avgjørelser, og skriverne som nedtegner deres grusomme gjerninger.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Wo be vnto you yt make vnrightuous lawes, and devyse thinges, which be to harde for to kepe:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Wo vnto them that decree wicked decrees, and write grieuous things,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Wo be vnto them that make vnrighteous lawes, and that causeth their actuaries to wryte greeuousnesse,

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness [which] they have prescribed;

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write perverseness;

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Wo `to' those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness;

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:

• World English Bible (2000)

  Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Beware, those who enact unjust policies, those who are always instituting unfair regulations,

Referenced Verses

• Luke 11:52 : 52 Woe to you, lawyers! for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in you hindered.
• Matt 23:23 : 23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faith: these you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.
• Luke 11:42-44 : 42 But woe to you, Pharisees! for you tithe mint and rue and every kind of herb, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. 43 Woe to you, Pharisees! for you love the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the markets. 44 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like graves which are not seen, and the men who walk over them are not aware of them.
• Ps 94:20-21 : 20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, which frames mischief by a law? 21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.
• Isa 5:8 : 8 Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, till there is no place, that they may dwell alone in the midst of the earth!
• Mic 3:1-4 : 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. 4 Then they shall cry to the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, because they have done evil in their deeds.
• Hab 2:6 : 6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him who increases that which is not his! How long? And to him who loads himself with thick clay!
• Hab 2:9 : 9 Woe to him who covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
• Hab 2:12 : 12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
• Hab 2:15 : 15 Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, who puts the bottle to him, and makes him drunk also, that you may look on their nakedness!
• Hab 2:19 : 19 Woe to him who says to the wood, Awake; to the mute stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in its midst.
• Matt 11:21 : 21 Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
• Matt 23:13-16 : 13 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in. 14 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: therefore you shall receive greater condemnation. 15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you travel land and sea to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves. 16 Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated!
• Mic 3:9-9 : 9 Hear this, I pray you, you leaders of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. 10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. 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.
• Mic 6:16 : 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and the inhabitants a hissing; therefore you shall bear the reproach of My people.
• Esth 3:10-13 : 10 And the king took his ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews. 11 And the king said to Haman, "The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you." 12 Then the king's scribes were called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and it was written according to all that Haman had commanded to the king's lieutenants, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province, according to its writing and to every people in their language; in the name of King Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring. 13 And the letters were sent by couriers into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them as a prey.
• Ps 58:2 : 2 Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
• Isa 5:18 : 18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as if with a cart rope:
• Isa 5:20-22 : 20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! 22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink:
• Jer 22:13 : 13 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and gives him nothing for his work;
• Dan 6:8-9 : 8 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it may not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be altered. 9 Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.
• Luke 11:46-47 : 46 And he said, Woe to you also, lawyers! for you load men with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers. 47 Woe to you! for you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
• Matt 23:27 : 27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.
• Matt 23:29 : 29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,
• Matt 26:24 : 24 The Son of Man goes as it is written about him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! it would have been good for that man if he had not been born.
• John 9:22 : 22 These words his parents spoke, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man confessed that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
• John 19:6 : 6 When the chief priests and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate said to them, Take him yourselves and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.
• Jude 1:11 : 11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.
• 1 Kgs 21:13 : 13 And two men, worthless fellows, came in and sat before him; and the men bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him with stones, so that he died.
• Isa 3:11 : 11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given to him.
• Isa 5:11 : 11 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who continue until night, till wine inflames them!