Verse 4

It may be the LORD your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD your God has heard: therefore, lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.

Other Translations

  • GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

    Kanskje vil Herren, din Gud, høre alle ordene fra Rab-Sjake, som hans herre, kongen av Assyria, har sendt for å håne den levende Gud, og bringe irettesettelse for de ordene Herren, din Gud, har hørt. Be for resten som fortsatt finnes!

  • Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

    Kanskje Herren din Gud vil høre ordene til Rabsake, han som Assyrias konge har sendt for å håne den levende Gud, og vil straffe ordene som Herren din Gud har hørt. Løft derfor din bønn for den rest som er igjen.»

  • Norsk King James

    Kanskje Herren din Gud vil høre ordene fra Rabshakeh, som kongen av Assyria har sendt for å vanære den levende Gud, og vil svare på de ordene Herren din Gud har hørt. Løft derfor opp din bønn for de som er igjen.

  • Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

    Kanskje vil Herren din Gud høre Rabsakes ord, som hans herre, kongen av Assyria, har sendt for å håne den levende Gud, og han vil straffe de ordene som Herren din Gud har hørt; så løft opp en bønn for de som finnes igjen.

  • Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

    Kanskje Herren din Gud vil høre det Rabshake som kongen av Assyria har sendt for å håne den levende Gud, har sagt, og straffe ham for ordene som Herren din Gud har hørt. Be derfor for den rest som er tilbake.»

  • Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

    Kanskje vil Herren din Gud høre alle ordene som Rabsake, som Assyrias konge har sendt for å håne den levende Gud, har sagt, og straffe ordene han har hørt. Så løft din bønn for den rest som er igjen.

  • o3-mini KJV Norsk

    «Kanskje Herren, din Gud, vil høre ordene fra Rabshakeh, som assyrerkongen, din herre, har sendt for å irettesette den levende Gud, og dømme de ord Herren din Gud har hørt. Be derfor for den overlevende rest.»

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

    Kanskje vil Herren din Gud høre alle ordene som Rabsake, som Assyrias konge har sendt for å håne den levende Gud, har sagt, og straffe ordene han har hørt. Så løft din bønn for den rest som er igjen.

  • Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

    Kanskje Herren din Gud vil høre ordene til Rabshake, som hans herre, kongen av Assyria, har sendt for å håne den levende Gud, og han vil straffe ham for de ordene Herren din Gud har hørt. Be derfor for den rest som er igjen!»

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for the remnant that still survives.

  • biblecontext

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  • GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

    Kanskje Herren din Gud vil høre alle ordene til Rabsjake, som kongen av Assyria, hans herre, har sendt for å håne den levende Gud, og kanskje han vil straffe ordene som Herren din Gud har hørt. Derfor, løft opp en bønn for resten som er igjen.

  • Original Norsk Bibel 1866

    Maaskee Herren din Gud vil høre Rabsakes Ord, hvilken hans Herre, Kongen af Assyrien, sendte at forhaane den levende Gud, og han skal straffe de Ord, som Herren din Gud haver hørt; saa opløft en Bøn for det Overblevne, som findes.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.

  • KJV 1769 norsk

    Kanskje din Gud, Herren, vil høre ordene til Rabsjake, som hans herre, assyrerkongen, har sendt for å håne den levende Gud, og vil irettesette ordene som Herren din Gud har hørt. Løft derfor din bønn for den rest som er tilbake.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Webster

    Kanskje vil Herren din Gud høre ordene fra Rabshake, som hans herre, kongen av Assyria, har sendt for å håne den levende Gud, og vil refse ordene som Herren din Gud har hørt. Løft derfor din bønn for den rest som er igjen.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

    Kanskje Herren din Gud vil høre de ordene som Rabsjake har talt, som hans herre, kongen av Assyria, har sendt ham med for å håne den levende Gud, og vil straffe ham for de ordene som Herren din Gud har hørt. Løft derfor en bønn for den rest som er igjen.'

  • Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

    Kanskje vil Herren din Gud høre ordene til Rabsjake, som hans herre, kongen av Assyria, har sendt for å håne den levende Gud, og straffe de ordene han har hørt. Be derfor for den rest som er igjen.

  • Norsk oversettelse av BBE

    Kanskje Herren din Gud vil høre ordene fra Rabshake, som hans herre, Assyrias konge, har sendt for å håne den levende Gud, og straffe ham for det han har sagt. Be derfor for resten av folket.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    The LORDE thy God (no doute) hath well considered the wordes of Rabsaches, whom his lorde ye kinge of the Assirians hath sent, to defie & blaspheme the lyuynge God: with soch wordes, as the LORDE yi God hath herde rightwell. And therfore lift vp yi prayer for the remnaunt, that yet are left.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    If so be the Lorde thy God hath heard the wordes of Rabshakeh, whom the King of Asshur his master hath sent to raile on the liuing God, and to reproch him with wordes which the Lord thy God hath heard, then lift thou vp thy prayer for the remnant that are left.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    The Lorde thy God no doubt hath well considered the wordes of Rabsakeh, whom his lorde king of the Assyrians hath sent to defie and blaspheme the lyuyng God, with such wordes as the Lorde thy God hath hearde ryght well: and therfore lyft vp thy prayer for the remnaunt that yet are left.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up [thy] prayer for the remnant that is left.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `It may be Jehovah thy God doth hear the words of Rabshakeh with which the king of Asshur his lord hath sent him to reproach the living God, and hath decided concerning the words that Jehovah thy God hath heard, and thou hast lifted up prayer for the remnant that is found.'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    It may be Jehovah thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Jehovah thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so make your prayer for the rest of the people.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.'"

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. When the LORD your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. So pray for this remnant that remains.’”

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 1:9 : 9 Except the LORD of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom, and we would have been like Gomorrah.
  • Isa 36:20 : 20 Who among all the gods of these lands have delivered their land from my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?
  • Isa 10:22 : 22 For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: a destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
  • Ps 106:23 : 23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
  • Isa 36:13 : 13 Then Rabshakeh stood and called out with a loud voice in the Jews' language and said, Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
  • Isa 36:18 : 18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
  • Isa 8:7-8 : 7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: 8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.
  • Isa 10:5-6 : 5 O Assyrian, the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation. 6 I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
  • Isa 37:23-24 : 23 Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel. 24 By your servants you have reproached the Lord, and have said, By the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice fir trees: and I will enter the height of its border, the forest of its Carmel.
  • Isa 51:7-8 : 7 Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; do not fear the reproach of men, nor be afraid of their revilings. 8 For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool: but my righteousness will last forever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
  • Joel 2:17 : 17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O LORD, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?
  • Amos 5:15 : 15 Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
  • Rom 9:27 : 27 Isaiah also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
  • Jas 5:16 : 16 Confess your faults to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
  • Josh 14:12 : 12 Now therefore give me this mountain, of which the LORD spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fortified; if so the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.
  • 1 Sam 7:8 : 8 And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Do not cease to cry unto the LORD our God for us, that he will save us from the hand of the Philistines.
  • 1 Sam 12:19 : 19 And all the people said to Samuel, Pray for your servants to the LORD your God, that we do not die: for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask us a king.
  • 1 Sam 12:23 : 23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
  • 1 Sam 14:6 : 6 Jonathan said to the young man who carried his armor, "Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; it may be that the LORD will work for us, for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few."
  • 1 Sam 17:26 : 26 David spoke to the men standing by him, asking, What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?
  • 1 Sam 17:36 : 36 Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear, and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God.
  • 2 Sam 16:12 : 12 It may be that the LORD will look on my affliction, and that the LORD will repay me good for his cursing this day.
  • 2 Kgs 17:18 : 18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them from his sight; there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
  • 2 Kgs 18:9-9 : 9 In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it. 10 At the end of three years they captured it. So, in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. 11 The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria and placed them in Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, 12 because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded, and neither would they listen to them nor do them. 13 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. 14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you impose on me, I will bear. So the king of Assyria imposed upon Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. 15 Hezekiah gave him all the silver found in the house of the LORD and the treasuries of the king's house. 16 At that time Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
  • 2 Kgs 19:4 : 4 It may be the LORD your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God; and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard: therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that are left.
  • 2 Kgs 19:22-23 : 22 Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice, and lifted up your eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel. 23 By your messengers you have reproached the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down its tall cedar trees, and the choice fir trees: and I will enter into its farthest lodging, and into the forest of its Carmel.
  • 2 Chr 28:19 : 19 For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he made Judah act wickedly and transgressed grievously against the LORD.
  • 2 Chr 32:15-20 : 15 Now therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or persuade you in this manner, nor believe him; for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand and from the hand of my fathers, how much less shall your God deliver you out of my hand? 16 And his servants spoke yet more against the LORD God and against his servant Hezekiah. 17 He also wrote letters to insult the LORD God of Israel and to speak against Him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver His people out of my hand. 18 Then they cried out with a loud voice in the language of Judah to the people of Jerusalem on the wall, to frighten them and to trouble them, that they might capture the city. 19 And they spoke against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of men's hands. 20 And for this reason, Hezekiah the king and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz prayed and cried to heaven.
  • Ps 50:21 : 21 These things you have done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether like you: but I will reprove you, and set them in order before your eyes.