Verse 7

For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  For vingården til Herren, hærskarenes Gud, er Israels hus, og Judas menn er hans elskede planter. Han forventet rettferdighet, men se, det ble undertrykkelse; rettskaffenhet, men se, det ble et rop.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  For Herrens, hærskarenes Guds, vingård er Israels hus, og Judas menn er hans plantet glede. Han ventet rett, men se, det ble undertrykkelse; rettferdighet, men se, det ble et skrik.

• Norsk King James

  For Herrens vingård er Israels hus, og mennene i Juda hans elskede plante; han så etter rettferd, men se, det var undertrykkelse; etter rett, men se, et rop.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  For Herrens, hærskarenes Guds, vingård er Israels hus, og mennene fra Juda er hans kjære plantning; han ventet rettferdighet, men se, bare blodutgyt else; han ventet rettskaffenhet, men se, et rop om nød.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  For vingården til Herren, hærskarenes Gud, er Israels hus, og Judas folk er hans elskede plante. Han ventet rettferdighet, men se, det ble blodutgytelse; trofasthet, men se, det ble rop om nød.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  For Herrens, hærskarenes Guds vingård, er Israels hus, og Judas folk er hans kjære plante. Han ventet rettferdighet, men se, undertrykkelse; rettskaffenhet, men se, et skrik.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  For Herrens vingård er Israels hus, og Juda-folket er hans yndlingsplante. Han forlangte dom, men fant undertrykkelse; han forventet rettferdighet, men hørte bare et skrik.

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

  For Herrens, hærskarenes Guds vingård, er Israels hus, og Judas folk er hans kjære plante. Han ventet rettferdighet, men se, undertrykkelse; rettskaffenhet, men se, et skrik.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  For vingården til Herren, hærskarenes Gud, er Israels hus, og Judas menn er hans behagelige planting. Han ventet rettferd, men se, det ble utgytelse; rettferdighet, men se, det ble skrik.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are the planting of His delight. He expected justice but saw bloodshed; He expected righteousness but heard cries of distress.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  For vingården til Herren, Allhærs Gud, er Israels hus, og Judas menn er hans elskede plantning. Han forventet rettferdighet, men se, det kom blodutgytelse, og rettskaffenhet, men se, det kom rop om nød.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Thi den Herre Zebaoths Viingaard er Israels Huus, og Judæ Mænd ere hans Lysters Plantelse; og han forventede Ret, og see, (da er der) Plagen, (og) Retfærdighed, og see, (da er der) Skrig.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  For vingården til Herren, hærskarenes Gud, er Israels hus, og Judas menn er hans behagelige plante. Han ventet rettferdighet, men se, undertrykkelse; for rettferdighet, men se, et klagerop.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  For vingården til Herren, hærskarenes Gud, er Israels hus, og Juda menn er hans kjære plante. Og han ventet rettferdighet, men se, undertrykkelse; for rett, men se, nødskrik.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  For Herren, hærskarenes Gud, sin vingård er Israels hus, og Juda er hans velbehagelige plante. Han ventet på rett, men se, undertrykkelse; på rettferdighet, men se, et skrik.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  For vingården til Herren hærskarenes Gud er Israels hus, og mennene i Juda er hans kjære plantelund: Han ventet rettferdighet, men se, det ble undertrykkelse; han ventet rettskaffenhet, men se, nød.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  For Herrens, hærskarenes Gud, vingård er Israels folk, og Judas menn er hans kjære plante: og han ventet rettferdig dom, men se, blodbad; rettferdighet, men se, skrik om hjelp.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  As for the vynyarde of the LORDE of hoostes it is the house of Israel, and whole Iuda his fayre plantinge. Of these he loked for equyte, but se there is wronge: for rightuousnesse, lo, It is but misery.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Surely the vineyard of the Lord of hostes is the house of Israel, and the men of Iudah are his pleasant plant, and hee looked for iudgement, but beholde oppression: for righteousnesse, but beholde a crying.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  As for the vineyarde of the Lorde of hoastes, it is the house of Israel: and the man of Iuda, the plant of his pleasure: Of these he loked for equitie, but see there is oppression for ryghteousnesse, and lo it is a crying.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For the vineyard of Yahweh of Hosts is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah his pleasant plant: And he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; For righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Because the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts `Is' the house of Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waiteth for judgment, and lo, oppression, For righteousness, and lo, a cry.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.

• World English Bible (2000)

  For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Indeed Israel is the vineyard of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the people of Judah are the cultivated place in which he took delight. He waited for justice, but look what he got– disobedience! He waited for fairness, but look what he got– cries for help!

Referenced Verses

• Ps 80:8-9 : 8 You have brought a vine out of Egypt; you have cast out the nations, and planted it. 9 You prepared room before it, and caused it to take deep root, and it filled the land. 10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and its boughs were like the majestic cedars. 11 It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its branches unto the river.
• Ps 80:15 : 15 And the vineyard which your right hand has planted, and the branch that you made strong for yourself.
• Ps 147:11 : 11 The LORD takes pleasure in those that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
• Ps 149:4 : 4 For the LORD takes pleasure in his people: he will beautify the humble with salvation.
• Prov 21:13 : 13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
• Song 7:6 : 6 How fair and how pleasant you are, O love, for delights!
• Isa 1:6 : 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor soothed with ointment.
• Isa 3:14 : 14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of His people, and their princes: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
• Isa 3:17 : 17 Therefore the Lord will strike with a scab the crown of the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will uncover their secret parts.
• Isa 5:2 : 2 And he fenced it, and removed its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress in it: and he expected it to bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes.
• Isa 58:6-8 : 6 Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? 7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you do not hide yourself from your own flesh? 8 Then shall your light break forth like the morning, and your health shall spring forth speedily: and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.
• Isa 62:5 : 5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you: and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
• Jer 12:10 : 10 Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have trampled My portion underfoot; they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
• Mic 6:8 : 8 He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
• Zeph 3:17 : 17 The LORD your God in the midst of you is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over you with joy; he will rest in his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.
• Zech 7:9-9 : 9 Thus says the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother: 10 And do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you plot evil against his brother in your heart. 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. 13 Therefore it has come to pass, that just as He called and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear, says the LORD of hosts: 14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations they had not known. Thus the land became desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate.
• Matt 3:8-9 : 8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance: 9 And do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father: for I say to you, that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. 10 And now also the axe is laid to the root of the trees: therefore every tree which does not bring forth good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.
• 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 18:7 : 7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, who cry day and night to him, though he bears long with them?
• John 15:2 : 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it, that it may produce more fruit.
• 1 Cor 6:8-9 : 8 No, you do wrong and defraud, and that your brethren. 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
• Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
• 1 John 3:7-8 : 7 Little children, let no one deceive you: he who does righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8 He who commits sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
• Gen 4:10 : 10 And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
• Exod 2:23-24 : 23 Now it happened, in the process of time, that the king of Egypt died. The children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
• Exod 3:7 : 7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows;
• Exod 22:21-27 : 21 You shall neither mistreat a stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. 22 You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. 23 If you afflict them in any way, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry; 24 and my wrath shall grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless. 25 If you lend money to any of my people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not charge him interest. 26 If you take your neighbor's garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down, 27 for that is his only covering, his garment for his skin. What will he sleep in? And it shall come to pass, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.
• Deut 15:9 : 9 Beware that there is not a wicked thought in your heart, saying, 'The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,' and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cries to the LORD against you, and it be sin to you.
• Neh 5:1-5 : 1 And there was a great outcry of the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. 2 For there were those who said, We, our sons, and our daughters are many: therefore we need to take grain for them, that we may eat and live. 3 Others said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses to buy grain because of the famine. 4 There were also those who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tax, against our lands and vineyards. 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and indeed, we bring into bondage our sons and daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are already in bondage; nor is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards.
• Job 31:38-39 : 38 If my land cries against me, or its furrows likewise complain; 39 If I have eaten its fruits without payment, or caused the owners to lose their life;
• Job 34:28 : 28 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come to Him, and He hears the cry of the afflicted.