Verse 24

Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooses you.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Se, dere er ingenting; deres gjerninger er intet; den som velger dere, avskyr dere.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Se, dere er av intet, og deres verk er intet: den som velger dere er en avsky.

• Norsk King James

  Se, dere er ingenting, og deres verk er intet; en avskyelighet er den som velger dere.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Se, dere er mindre enn ingenting, deres arbeid er mindre enn ingenting; en styggedom er den som velger dere.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Se, dere er ingenting, og deres verk er like lite. En avskyelighet er den som velger dere.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Se, dere er intet, og deres arbeider er ingenting; avskyelig er den som velger dere.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Se, dere er ingenting, og deres gjerninger er forgjeves; en avskyelighet er den som velger dere.

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

  Se, dere er intet, og deres arbeider er ingenting; avskyelig er den som velger dere.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Se, dere er mindre enn intet, og deres gjøremål er ingenting. Den som velger dere, er en styggedom.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Look, you are nothing, and your works are less than nothing; anyone who chooses you is an abomination.

• biblecontext

  { "verseID": "Isaiah.41.24", "source": "הֵן־אַתֶּ֣ם מֵאַ֔יִן וּפָעָלְכֶ֖ם מֵאָ֑פַע תּוֹעֵבָ֖ה יִבְחַ֥ר בָּכֶֽם׃", "text": "Behold-*ʾattem mēʾayin ûpāʿālḵem mēʾāpaʿ tôʿēḇâ yiḇḥar bāḵem*", "grammar": { "*ʾattem*": "pronoun, 2nd person masculine plural - you", "*mēʾayin*": "preposition + noun - from nothing/less than nothing", "*ûpāʿālḵem*": "conjunction + noun, masculine singular + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - and your work", "*mēʾāpaʿ*": "preposition + noun - from nothingness/worthlessness", "*tôʿēḇâ*": "noun, feminine singular - abomination", "*yiḇḥar*": "verb, qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - he chooses", "*bāḵem*": "preposition + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - in you" }, "variants": { "*mēʾayin*": "from nothing/less than nothing/worthless", "*pāʿālḵem*": "your work/deed/action", "*mēʾāpaʿ*": "from nothingness/worthlessness/emptiness", "*tôʿēḇâ*": "abomination/detestable thing/abhorrence", "*yiḇḥar bāḵem*": "chooses you/selects you" } }

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Men se, dere er ingenting, og deres arbeid er for intet; den som velger dere, er en styggedom.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  See, I ere (mindre) end Intet, og eders Gjerning er (værre) end en Øgle; (den er) en Vederstyggelighed, som udvælger eder.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Se, dere er som ingenting, og deres verk er ingenting; en avsky er den som velger dere.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Se, dere er ingenting, og deres verk er intet; en styggedom er den som velger dere.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Se, dere er intet, og deres verk er ingenting, en avskyelighet — den som fester seg til dere.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Se, dere er ingenting, og arbeidet deres er ingenting; en avskyelighet er han som velger dere.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Men dere er ingenting, og deres verk er uten verdi: dum er den som tar dere for sine guder.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Beholde, ye goddes are of naught, & yor makinge is of naught, but abhomination hath chosen you.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Beholde, ye are of no value, and your making is of naught: man hath chosen an abomination by them.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Beholde ye are gods of naught, and your making is of naught: yea abhomible is the man that hath chosen you.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Behold, ye [are] of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination [is he that] chooseth you.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing; an abomination is he who chooses you.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Lo, ye `are' of nothing, and your work of nought, An abomination -- it fixeth on you.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  But you are nothing, and your work is of no value: foolish is he who takes you for his gods.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent; the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 115:8 : 8 Those who make them are like them; so is everyone who trusts in them.
• 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 Therefore, concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
• Isa 41:29 : 29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
• Isa 44:9-9 : 9 Those who make a carved image are all of them vanity; and their delightful things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. 10 Who has formed a god, or cast a carved image that is profitable for nothing?
• Isa 66:24 : 24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the corpses of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, nor shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.
• Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.
• Jer 10:14 : 14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is humiliated by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
• Jer 51:17-18 : 17 Every man is senseless by his knowledge; every craftsman is put to shame by the graven image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 18 They are vanity, the work of errors; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
• Isa 37:19 : 19 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
• Deut 7:26 : 26 Neither shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you become a cursed thing like it: but you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
• Deut 27:15 : 15 Cursed be the man that makes any graven or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and puts it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
• Rev 17:5 : 5 And on her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.