Verse 3

You have multiplied the nation and not increased the joy; they rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  For åket som tynget dem, stangen på deres skuldre, og staven til deres driver, har du brutt som på Midjans dag.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Du har mangfoldiggjort folket, men ikke økt gleden; de gleder seg for deg som under innhøstningens glede, som mennesker jubler når de deler byttet.

• Norsk King James

  Du har økt folket, men ikke gitt dem mer glede; de gleder seg for ditt ansikt slik som ved innhøstingen, og som menn jubler når de deler byttet.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Du har gjort folket større, men du har ikke økt deres glede. De gleder seg for ditt åsyn, som en gleder seg ved innhøstingen, som en fryder seg når bytte deles.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  For du har brutt det tyngende åket, stokken over deres skuldre, herskerens stav, slik som på Midjans dag.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Du har gjort folket tallrikt, men ikke økt gleden; de gleder seg for ditt åsyn som ved innhøstningsglede, som menn fryder seg når de deler byttet.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Du har økt folket, men ikke gleden; de fryder seg over deg som man fryder seg over en god innhøsting, slik som mennesker jubler når de deler byttet.

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

  Du har gjort folket tallrikt, men ikke økt gleden; de gleder seg for ditt åsyn som ved innhøstningsglede, som menn fryder seg når de deler byttet.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  For åket som tynget dem, staven på deres skulder, og den som undertrykker dem, har du brutt som på Midians dag.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  For you have shattered the yoke that burdened them, the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor, as on the day of Midian’s defeat.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  For åket som tynget dem, staven på deres skuldre og stokken til deres slavevokter har du brutt i stykker som på Midjans dag.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Du formerede Folket, gjorde du ikke stor Glæde? de glædede sig for dit Ansigt, ligesom Glæden er om Høsten, saasom man fryder sig, naar man uddeler Bytte.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Du har gjort folket mangfoldig, men ikke økt gleden. De gleder seg foran deg som en glede ved innhøstning, som menn fryder seg når de deler bytte.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Du har gjort folket tallrikt, du har økt deres glede. De gleder seg for ditt åsyn, som i gledesdagene under høstingen, som menn jubler når de deler byttet.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Du har gjort folket større, du har økt deres glede; de gleder seg for ditt åsyn som en gleder seg ved innhøstingen, som folk jubler når byttet deles.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Du har gjort folket tallrikt, du har økt deres glede; de fryder seg foran deg, som når man gleder seg under innhøstningen, som menn jubler når de deler byttet.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Du har gjort dem svært glade, du har økt deres glede. De gleder seg foran deg som folk gleder seg over innhøstingen, eller som når de deler byttet etter krigen.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Shalt thou multiplie the people, and not increase the ioye also? They shal reioyse before the euen as men make mery in haruest, and as men that haue gotten the victory, when they deale the spoyle.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased their ioye: they haue reioyced before thee according to the ioye in haruest, and as men reioyce when they deuide a spoyle.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Thou hast multiplied the people, and not increased their ioy: they reioyce before thee, euen as men make merie in haruest, and they be ioyfull as men that do deuide the spoyle after the victorie.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Thou hast multiplied the nation, [and] not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, [and] as [men] rejoice when they divide the spoil.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  You have multiplied the nation, you have increased their joy: they joy before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Thou hast multiplied the nation, Thou hast made great its joy, They have joyed before Thee as the joy in harvest, As `men' rejoice in their apportioning spoil.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast increased their joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.

• World English Bible (2000)

  You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  You have enlarged the nation; you give them great joy. They rejoice in your presence as harvesters rejoice; as warriors celebrate when they divide up the plunder.

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 30:16 : 16 And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
• Ps 119:162 : 162 I rejoice at Your word as one who finds great treasure.
• Isa 65:18 : 18 But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
• Isa 66:10 : 10 Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you that love her: rejoice with joy with her, all you that mourn for her:
• Isa 26:15 : 15 You have increased the nation, O LORD, You have increased the nation; You are glorified; You had removed it far to all the ends of the earth.
• Isa 35:10 : 10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
• Ps 4:7 : 7 You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their grain and their wine increased.
• Ps 107:38 : 38 He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and does not allow their cattle to decrease.
• 2 Chr 20:25-28 : 25 When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away their spoil, they found among them an abundance of valuables on the dead bodies, and precious jewelry, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away; and they were three days gathering the spoil because there was so much. 26 And on the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Berachah, for there they blessed the LORD; therefore the name of that place was called the Valley of Berachah until this day. 27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat in front of them, to go back to Jerusalem with joy, for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies. 28 So they came to Jerusalem with stringed instruments, harps, and trumpets, to the house of the LORD.
• Neh 9:23 : 23 You also multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and brought them into the land which You had promised to their forefathers they would enter and possess.
• Ps 126:5-6 : 5 Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy. 6 He who goes forth weeping, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
• Isa 12:1 : 1 And in that day you shall say, O LORD, I will praise you: though you were angry with me, your anger is turned away, and you comforted me.
• Isa 16:9-9 : 9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah: I will water you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh: for the shouting for your summer fruits and for your harvest is fallen. 10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
• Isa 25:9 : 9 And it will be said in that day, Behold, this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.
• Jer 31:7 : 7 For thus says the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: proclaim, give praise, and say, O LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.
• Jer 31:12-14 : 12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall not sorrow anymore at all. 13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. 14 And I will satisfy the soul of the priests with abundance, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says the LORD.
• Hos 4:7 : 7 As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: therefore I will turn their glory into shame.
• Zech 2:11 : 11 And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and they shall be My people: and I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
• Zech 8:23 : 23 Thus says the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the garment of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
• Zech 10:8 : 8 I will signal for them and gather them, for I have redeemed them. And they shall increase as they have increased.
• Luke 11:22 : 22 But when a stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him, he takes from him all his armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoils.
• Acts 8:8 : 8 And there was great joy in that city.
• Phil 4:4 : 4 Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.
• 1 Pet 1:8 : 8 Whom having not seen you love; in whom, though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,
• Isa 49:20-22 : 20 The children which you shall have, after you have lost the other, shall say again in your ears, The place is too narrow for me: give place to me that I may dwell. 21 Then you shall say in your heart, Who has begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and moving to and fro? and who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where have they been? 22 Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
• Isa 54:1 : 1 Sing, O barren, you who did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says the LORD.
• Isa 55:12 : 12 For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
• Isa 61:7 : 7 For your shame you shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion; therefore in their land they shall possess the double; everlasting joy shall be unto them.
• Isa 61:10 : 10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
• Isa 35:2 : 2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the majesty of our God.
• Judg 5:3 : 3 Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes; I, even I, will sing to the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.