Verse 18

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as if with a cart rope:

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Ve dem som trekker syndens åk etter seg med løgnens bånd, som med vognens seler av synd.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Ve dem som trekker synd med løgnens strenger, og overtredelse som med vognreip.

• Norsk King James

  Ve dem som trekker urett med bånd av tomhet, og synder som om de bruker et hestevaier.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Ve dem som drar uskyld med løgnens tau, og synd med vognens rep,

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Ve dem som drar syndens straff med falske bånd og bringer misgjerning med vognrep.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Ve dem som trekker urett med tomhets snorer og synd med vognreimer!

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Ve dem som binder urett sammen med falske lenker, og synd som med en kjetting!

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

  Ve dem som trekker urett med tomhets snorer og synd med vognreimer!

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Ve dem som drar syndens reip med tomhet og som med vognets taustumper sleper urett.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Woe to those who drag iniquity with cords of falsehood and sin as if with cart ropes!

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Ve dem som drar syndens misgjerning med løse tau og syndens vogn med vognliner.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Vee dem, som drage Misgjerning med Forfængeligheds Snorer, og Synd med Vognreb!

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Ve dem som drar syndens skyld med tomhetens snorer, og urett som med vogntau.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Ve dem som drar synd med løgnens tråder, og ondskap som med vognreip!

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Ve dem som trekker syndens snorer med bedrag og sleper på misgjerningens vogntau,

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Ve de som trekker synd med falskhetsstrenger og sleper skyld som med en vognsnor.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Forbannet er de som bruker oxtau for å trekke den onde tingen, og båndene av en ung okse for sin synd!

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Wo vnto vayne persones, that drawe wickednes vnto the, as it were with a coorde: and synne, as it were with a cart rope.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Woe vnto them, that draw iniquitie with cordes of vanitie, and sinne, as with cart ropes:

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Wo be vnto them that drawe wickednesse with cordes of vanitie, and sinne as it were with a cart rope.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, And wickedness as with cart rope;

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Wo `to' those drawing out iniquity with cords of vanity, And as `with' thick ropes of the cart -- sin.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope;

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!

• World English Bible (2000)

  Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope;

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Beware, those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead, who pull sin as with cart ropes.

Referenced Verses

• Jer 23:14 : 14 I have also seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They also strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none returns from his wickedness. They are all to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants of it as Gomorrah.
• Jer 23:10 : 10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourns; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their power is not right.
• Jer 23:24 : 24 Can anyone hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? says the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the LORD.
• Jer 28:15-16 : 15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD has not sent you; but you make this people to trust in a lie. 16 Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, I will cast you from off the face of the earth: this year you shall die, because you have taught rebellion against the LORD.
• Jer 44:15-19 : 15 Then all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great multitude, even all the people who dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, 16 As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you. 17 But we will certainly do whatever thing proceeds out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then we had plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil. 18 But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. 19 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?
• Ezek 13:10-11 : 10 Because, indeed, they have seduced my people, saying, 'Peace,' when there was no peace; and one builds up a wall, and others daub it with untempered mortar. 11 Say to those who daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and you, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
• Ezek 13:22 : 22 Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad, and strengthened the hands of the wicked, so he should not turn from his wicked way, by promising him life.
• Zeph 1:12 : 12 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and punish the men who are settled in complacency: that say in their heart, 'The LORD will not do good, nor will He do evil.'
• John 16:2 : 2 They will put you out of the synagogues: yes, the time is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.
• Acts 26:9 : 9 I truly thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
• Judg 17:5 : 5 And the man Micah had a house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
• Judg 17:13 : 13 Then said Micah, Now I know that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
• 2 Sam 16:20-23 : 20 Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we shall do. 21 And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that you are abhorred by your father: then shall the hands of all who are with you be strong. 22 So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel. 23 And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counseled in those days, was as if a man had inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
• Ps 10:11 : 11 He has said in his heart, God has forgotten; He hides His face; He will never see it.
• Ps 14:1 : 1 The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they have done abominable deeds, there is none who does good.
• Ps 36:2 : 2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity is found to be hateful.
• Ps 94:5-9 : 5 They break in pieces your people, O LORD, and afflict your heritage. 6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. 7 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it. 8 Understand, you senseless among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise? 9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see? 10 He that chastises the nations, shall he not correct? he that teaches man knowledge, shall he not know? 11 The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
• Isa 28:15 : 15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we in agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come to us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hidden ourselves:
• Isa 59:4-8 : 4 No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth: they trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch viper’s eggs and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies, and what is crushed breaks out into a viper. 6 Their webs will not become garments, nor will they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. 7 Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths. 8 The way of peace they do not know; and there is no justice in their paths: they have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever walks therein shall not know peace.
• Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end thereof?
• Jer 8:5-9 : 5 Why then has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, they refuse to return. 6 I listened and heard, but they did not speak rightly: no man repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Everyone turned to his own course, like a horse charging into battle. 7 Yes, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times; and the turtle dove, the crane, and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people do not know the judgment of the LORD. 8 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Behold, certainly in vain he made it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. 9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?