Verse 3

Why have we fasted, they say, and you do not see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you take no notice? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure and exact all your labors.

Other Translations

  • GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

    ‘Hvorfor faster vi, men du ser det ikke? Hvorfor ydmyker vi oss, men du merker det ikke?’ Se, på deres faste dag søker dere egen vinning og tvinger deres arbeidere.

  • Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

    Hvorfor har vi fastet, sier de, og du ser det ikke? Hvorfor har vi ydmyket vår sjel, og du merker det ikke? Se, på deres fastedag søker dere egen glede og driver ut alle deres arbeidere.

  • Norsk King James

    Hvorfor har vi fastet, sier de, men du ser oss ikke? Hvorfor belaster vi oss selv, og du legger ikke merke til det? Se, på fastedagen deres finner dere glede og krever alt deres arbeid.

  • Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

    Hvorfor fastet vi, og du så det ikke? Hvorfor plaget vi vår sjel, og du ville ikke vite det? Se, på den dagen dere faster, finner dere lyst og krever alle deres arbeid.

  • Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

    Hvorfor faster vi, men du ser ikke? Hvorfor setter vi oss selv i nød, men du legger ikke merke til det? På deres fastedag fortsetter dere nemlig med å søke deres lyster og undertrykke alle arbeidere.

  • Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

    Hvorfor har vi fastet, sier de, og du ser det ikke? Hvorfor har vi plaget vår sjel, og du merker det ikke? Se, på deres fastedag finner dere glede og stiller krav til alle dine arbeidere.

  • o3-mini KJV Norsk

    «Hvorfor har vi fastet?» spør de, «når du ikke legger merke til det! Hvorfor har vi ydmyket oss, når du ikke merker det?» Se, på fastedagen finner dere nytelse og legger ut alt dere har planlagt.

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

    Hvorfor har vi fastet, sier de, og du ser det ikke? Hvorfor har vi plaget vår sjel, og du merker det ikke? Se, på deres fastedag finner dere glede og stiller krav til alle dine arbeidere.

  • Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

    Hvorfor faster vi og ser du det ikke? Hvorfor plager vi vår sjel og merker du det ikke? Men på fastedagen søker dere egen nytte og undertrykker alle deres arbeidere.

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    'Why have we fasted,' they say, 'and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?' Yet on the day of your fasting, you pursue your own desires and oppress all your workers.

  • biblecontext

    { "verseID": "Isaiah.58.3", "source": "לָ֤מָּה צַּ֙מְנוּ֙ וְלֹ֣א רָאִ֔יתָ עִנִּ֥ינוּ נַפְשֵׁ֖נוּ וְלֹ֣א תֵדָ֑ע הֵ֣ן בְּי֤וֹם צֹֽמְכֶם֙ תִּמְצְאוּ־חֵ֔פֶץ וְכָל־עַצְּבֵיכֶ֖ם תִּנְגֹּֽשׂוּ׃", "text": "*lāmmāh* *ṣṣamnû* *wə*-not *rāʾîtā* *ʿinnînû* *napšēnû* *wə*-not *tēdāʿ* *hēn* in-day *ṣōməkem* *timṣəʾû*-*ḥēpeṣ* *wə*-all-*ʿaṣṣəbêkem* *tingōśû*", "grammar": { "*lāmmāh*": "interrogative particle - why", "*ṣṣamnû*": "perfect 1st person common plural - we fasted", "*wə*-*lōʾ*": "conjunction with negative particle - and not", "*rāʾîtā*": "perfect 2nd person masculine singular - you saw", "*ʿinnînû*": "perfect 1st person common plural - we afflicted", "*napšēnû*": "noun with 1st person common plural possessive suffix - our soul", "*wə*-*lōʾ*": "conjunction with negative particle - and not", "*tēdāʿ*": "imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - you know", "*hēn*": "demonstrative particle - behold/look", "*bə*-*yôm*": "preposition with noun - in day of", "*ṣōməkem*": "infinitive construct with 2nd person masculine plural possessive suffix - your fasting", "*timṣəʾû*-*ḥēpeṣ*": "imperfect 2nd person masculine plural with noun - you find pleasure", "*wə*-*kol*-*ʿaṣṣəbêkem*": "conjunction with construct form of noun 'all' with noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - and all your laborers", "*tingōśû*": "imperfect 2nd person masculine plural - you oppress/drive" }, "variants": { "*lāmmāh*": "why/for what reason", "*ṣṣamnû*": "we fasted/we abstained from food", "*rāʾîtā*": "you saw/you noticed/you observed", "*ʿinnînû*": "we afflicted/we humbled/we oppressed", "*napšēnû*": "our soul/our self/our being", "*tēdāʿ*": "you know/you understand/you notice", "*hēn*": "behold/look/indeed", "*ṣōməkem*": "your fasting/your abstinence", "*ḥēpeṣ*": "pleasure/delight/desire/business", "*ʿaṣṣəbêkem*": "your laborers/your workers/those who toil for you", "*tingōśû*": "you oppress/you drive/you exact" } }

  • GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

    Hvorfor faster vi, men Du ser det ikke? Hvorfor ydmyker vi oss, men Du legger ikke merke til det? Se, på deres fastedag driver dere med egne sysler og undertrykker alle deres arbeidere.

  • Original Norsk Bibel 1866

    Hvi fastede vi, og du saae det ikke? (hvi) plagede vi vor Sjæl, og du vil ikke vide det? see, paa den Dag, I faste, finde I (eders) Lyst og kræve alle eders (besværlige) Arbeider.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.

  • KJV 1769 norsk

    Hvorfor har vi fastet, sier de, og du ser det ikke? Hvorfor har vi plaget vår sjel, og du bryr deg ikke? Se, på fastedagen gjør dere som dere vil og krever alle deres arbeidere.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Webster

    Hvorfor har vi fastet, sier de, og du ser det ikke? Hvorfor har vi plaget vår sjel, og du merker det ikke? Se, på deres fastedag finner dere deres egen fornøyelse og krever inn alle arbeiderne deres.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

    'Hvorfor har vi fastet, og Du har ikke sett det? Vi har plaget våre sjeler, og Du har ikke lagt merke til det.' Se, på fastedagen leter dere etter fornøyelse, og pålegger alt deres arbeid.

  • Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

    Hvorfor har vi fastet, sier de, og du ser det ikke? Hvorfor har vi ydmyket vår sjel, og du legger ikke merke til det? Se, på fastedagen finner dere eget behag og krever fullføring av alle gjøremål.

  • Norsk oversettelse av BBE

    De sier: Hvorfor faster vi, men du ser det ikke? Hvorfor ydmyker vi oss, men du bryr deg ikke om det? Se, på den dagen dere faster, driver dere med forretninger og presser deres arbeidere.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Wherfore fast we (saye they) and thou seist it not? we put oure liues to straitnesse, and thou regardest it not?

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Wherefore haue we fasted, and thou seest it not? we haue punished our selues, and thou regardest it not. Beholde, in the day of your fast you will seeke your will, and require all your dettes.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Wherefore fast we say they and thou seest it not? we put our liues to straitnesse, and thou regardest it not?

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ Wherefore have we fasted, [say they], and thou seest not? [wherefore] have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Why have we fasted, [say they], and you don't see? [why] have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find [your own] pleasure, and exact all your labors.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `Why have we fasted, and Thou hast not seen? We have afflicted our soul, and Thou knowest not.' Lo, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, And all your labours ye exact.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Wherefore have we fasted, [say they], and thou seest not? [wherefore] have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find [your own] pleasure, and exact all your labors.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;

  • World English Bible (2000)

    'Why have we fasted,' [say they], 'and you don't see? [why] have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge?' "Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    They lament,‘Why don’t you notice when we fast? Why don’t you pay attention when we humble ourselves?’ Look, at the same time you fast, you satisfy your selfish desires, you oppress your workers.

Referenced Verses

  • Mal 3:14 : 14 You have said, 'It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?'.
  • Lev 16:29 : 29 And this shall be a statute forever to you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger who dwells among you:
  • Neh 5:7 : 7 Then I consulted with myself and rebuked the nobles and rulers, and said to them, You are charging interest, each one from his brother. And I called a great assembly against them.
  • Zech 7:5-7 : 5 Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months, even those seventy years, did you at all fast to Me, even to Me? 6 And when you ate and when you drank, did you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves? 7 Should you not hear the words which the LORD has proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities around her, when men inhabited the South and the plain?
  • Luke 18:9-9 : 9 And he spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others: 10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; one a Pharisee, and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank you that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.
  • 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.
  • Ps 69:10 : 10 When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
  • Prov 28:9 : 9 He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
  • Isa 22:13 : 13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.
  • Isa 47:6 : 6 I was angry with My people, I have defiled My inheritance and given them into your hand. You showed them no mercy; upon the elderly you have laid your yoke very heavily.
  • Jer 34:9-9 : 9 That every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, being a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should enslave them, a Jew his brother. 10 Now when all the princes and all the people, who had entered into the covenant, heard that everyone should let his male servant, and everyone his female servant go free, and that none should enslave themselves anymore, they obeyed and let them go. 11 But afterward they turned and forced the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids. 12 Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 13 Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying, 14 At the end of seven years let every man set free his Hebrew brother, who has been sold to you; and when he has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you. But your fathers did not listen to me, nor incline their ear. 15 And you had now turned and done what was right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and you had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name. 16 But you turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return and brought them into subjection, to be your servants and your handmaids. 17 Therefore thus says the LORD: You have not listened to me in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbor; behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, says the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
  • Dan 10:2-3 : 2 In those days, I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks. 3 I ate no desirable food, neither did meat nor wine enter my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were completed.
  • Jonah 3:6-8 : 6 For word came to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not eat, nor drink water. 8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in their hands.
  • Mic 3:9-9 : 9 Hear this, I pray you, you leaders of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. 10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 The leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.
  • Lev 16:31 : 31 It shall be a sabbath of rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls, by a statute forever.
  • Lev 23:27 : 27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the day of atonement; it shall be a holy gathering to you; and you shall afflict your souls and offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.
  • Num 23:4 : 4 And God met Balaam; and he said to him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
  • Matt 18:28-35 : 28 But that same servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred pence; and he laid hands on him and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me what you owe. 29 And his fellow servant fell down at his feet, and begged him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay you all. 30 And he would not, but went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt. 31 So when his fellow servants saw what had been done, they were very sorry, and came and told their lord all that had been done. 32 Then his lord, after he had called him, said to him, O wicked servant, I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. 33 Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you? 34 And his lord was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him. 35 So also shall my heavenly Father do to you, if you do not forgive from your hearts every one his brother their trespasses.
  • Matt 20:11-12 : 11 And when they had received it, they grumbled against the master of the house, 12 Saying, These last have worked but one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden and heat of the day.
  • Luke 15:29 : 29 And he answered and said to his father, Lo, these many years I have served you, nor have I transgressed at any time your commandment: and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends: