Verse 4

Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow as bronze;

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  For jeg vet at du er stivhalset, at nakken din er hard som jern, og pannen din hard som kobber.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Fordi jeg visste at du er hard, og at nakken din er som en jernsene, og at panna di er av bronse.

• Norsk King James

  Fordi jeg visste at du er sta, og din nakke er lik jern, og din panne er som bronse;

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  For jeg visste at du er sta, og at nakken din er som jern, og pannen din er som kobber.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Fordi jeg visste at du er hård, at din nakke er som et jernbånd, og din panne er av kobber,

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Fordi jeg visste at du er sta, og at din nakke er som en jernsene, og din panne er som bronse.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  For jeg visste at du var sta, at nakken din var som jern, og at pannen din var av bronse.

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

  Fordi jeg visste at du er sta, og at din nakke er som en jernsene, og din panne er som bronse.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  For jeg vet at du er hard, at din nakke er en jernsen, og din panne er av kobber.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Because I knew how stubborn you are, with your neck as iron sinew and your forehead like bronze,

• biblecontext

  { "verseID": "Isaiah.48.4", "source": "מִדַּעְתִּ֕י כִּ֥י קָשֶׁ֖ה אָ֑תָּה וְגִ֤יד בַּרְזֶל֙ עָרְפֶּ֔ךָ וּמִצְחֲךָ֖ נְחוּשָֽׁה׃", "text": "From *daʿtî* that *qāsheh* *ʾāttāh* and *gîd* *barzel* *ʿorpekā* and *miṣḥăkā* *neḥûshāh*", "grammar": { "*daʿtî*": "noun + 1st person singular suffix - my knowledge", "*qāsheh*": "adjective masculine singular - hard/stubborn/obstinate", "*ʾāttāh*": "2nd person masculine singular pronoun - you", "*gîd*": "masculine singular construct - sinew of", "*barzel*": "masculine singular - iron", "*ʿorpekā*": "masculine singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your neck", "*miṣḥăkā*": "masculine singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your forehead", "*neḥûshāh*": "feminine singular - bronze/copper" }, "variants": { "*qāsheh*": "hard/stubborn/obstinate/stiff-necked", "*gîd*": "sinew/tendon/muscle", "*barzel*": "iron/ironlike/unyielding", "*ʿorpekā*": "your neck/your stubbornness", "*miṣḥăkā*": "your forehead/your brow", "*neḥûshāh*": "bronze/copper/brass" } }

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Fordi jeg visste at du er hårdnakket, og din nakke er av jernsenener, og din panne er av kobber.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  fordi jeg vidste, at du er haard, og din Nakke er en Jernsene, og din Pande er Kobber.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Fordi jeg visste at du er sta, og at din nakke er en jernsenet, og din panne er bronse;

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Fordi jeg visste at du er hard, og din nakke er en jernsenet, og din panne er som kobber;

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Fordi jeg visste at du er stivsinnet, og din nakke er som jern og din panne som kobber.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Fordi jeg visste at du er sta, og at din nakke er en jernsene, og din panne er av bronse;

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Fordi jeg så at ditt hjerte var hardt, og at din nakke var som en jernstang, og din panne av bronse;

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Howbeit I knewe that thou art obstinate, and that thy neck hath an yron vane, and that thy brow is of brasse.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Because I knewe, that thou art obstinate, & thy necke is an yron sinew, & thy brow brasse,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Howbeit I knowe that thou art obstinate, and that thy necke hath an iron sinowe, and that thy browe is of brasse.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Because I knew that thou [art] obstinate, and thy neck [is] an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  From my knowing that thou art obstinate, And a sinew of iron thy neck, And thy forehead brass,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;

• World English Bible (2000)

  Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  I did this because I know how stubborn you are. Your neck muscles are like iron and your forehead like bronze.

Referenced Verses

• Exod 32:9 : 9 The LORD said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people.
• Zech 7:11-12 : 11 But they refused to heed, and shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears, so they should not hear. 12 Yes, they made their hearts like an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts sent in His Spirit by the former prophets: therefore, great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.
• Acts 7:51 : 51 You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
• Deut 31:27 : 27 For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
• Exod 33:3 : 3 To a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in your midst; for you are a stiff-necked people: lest I consume you on the way.
• 2 Chr 36:13 : 13 And he also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart from turning to the LORD God of Israel.
• Prov 29:1 : 1 He who is often reproved and hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
• Isa 46:12 : 12 Listen to me, you stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
• Jer 3:3 : 3 Therefore, the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a harlot's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.
• Jer 5:3 : 3 O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
• Jer 7:26 : 26 Yet they did not listen to me, nor incline their ear, but stiffened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
• Jer 19:15 : 15 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.
• Ezek 3:4-9 : 4 And he said to me, Son of man, go, get yourself to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them. 5 For you are not sent to a people of a strange language and hard speech, but to the house of Israel; 6 Not to many people of a strange language and hard speech, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you. 7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hardhearted. 8 Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads. 9 Like an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: do not fear them, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
• Dan 5:20 : 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.
• Neh 9:16-17 : 16 But they and our forefathers acted proudly, hardened their necks, and did not heed Your commandments. 17 They refused to obey, and were not mindful of Your wonders that You did among them. But they hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a leader to return to their bondage. But You are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and did not forsake them.
• Neh 9:28 : 28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before You; therefore You abandoned them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them. Yet when they returned and cried out to You, You heard from heaven, and many times delivered them according to Your mercies.
• Ps 75:5 : 5 Do not lift your horn on high; do not speak with a stiff neck.
• Ps 78:8 : 8 And might not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that did not set their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
• Exod 33:5 : 5 For the LORD had said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people: I will come up into your midst in a moment and consume you: therefore now take off your ornaments from you, that I may know what to do with you.'
• Deut 10:16 : 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.
• 2 Kgs 17:14 : 14 Nevertheless they would not listen, but stiffened their necks, like their fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their God.
• 2 Chr 30:8 : 8 Now do not be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD, and enter into His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you.
• Rom 2:5 : 5 But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
• Heb 3:13 : 13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.