Verse 10

This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the imagination of their heart, and follow other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, will be like this belt, which is good for nothing.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Dette onde folket som nekter å høre mine ord, følger sine hardhjertede hjerter og går etter andre guder for å tjene dem, skal bli som dette beltet, som er ubrukelig.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Dette onde folket, som nekter å høre mine ord, som vandrer i sitt hjerts egenrådighet og følger andre guder for å tjene og tilbe dem, vil bli som dette beltet, som er til ingen nytte.

• Norsk King James

  Dette onde folket, som nekter å høre mine ord, som følger sine egne ønsker og dyrker andre guder, skal bli som dette beltet, som ikke er til nytte.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Dette onde folket, som nekter å høre mine ord, som følger sitt eget harde hjerte og går etter andre guder for å tjene dem og tilbe dem, skal bli som dette beltet, som er ubrukelig.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Dette onde folket, som nekter å lytte til mine ord, som følger sitt eget hjertes gjenstridige vilje, og som følger andre guder for å tjene og tilbe dem, skal bli som dette beltet som ikke er til nytte for noe.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Dette onde folket, som nekter å høre mine ord, som følger sine hjertes innbilninger, og som følger andre guder for å tjene dem og tilbe dem, skal bli som dette kledet, som ikke er til nytte.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  «Dette onde folket, som nekter å høre mine ord, som følger sine egne innbilninger og tilber andre guder for å tjene og tilbe dem, skal være som dette beltet, som er helt verdiløst.»

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

  Dette onde folket, som nekter å høre mine ord, som følger sine hjertes innbilninger, og som følger andre guder for å tjene dem og tilbe dem, skal bli som dette kledet, som ikke er til nytte.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Dette onde folket, som nekter å høre mine ord, følger deres egne sta hjerter og går etter andre guder for å tjene og tilbe dem, skal bli som dette beltet som ikke duger til noe.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  These evil people, who refuse to listen to my words, who follow the stubbornness of their hearts, and who follow other gods to serve and worship them, will become like this waistband—useless for anything.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Dette onde folket, som nekter å høre mine ord, som lever i hjertets egenrådighet og følger andre guder, tjener dem og faller ned for dem, skal bli som dette beltet som ikke er til nytte.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Dette onde Folk, som vægrer sig for at høre mine Ord, som vandrer i sit Hjertes Stivhed og gaaer efter andre Guder til at tjene dem og at tilbede for dem, det skal være som dette Bælte, som ikke kan due til Noget.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Dette onde folket, som nekter å høre mine ord, som følger sine egne hjerters vilje, og som går etter andre guder for å tjene dem og tilbe dem, skal bli som dette beltet, det som er ubrukelig.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Dette onde folket, som nekter å høre mine ord, som vandrer i sitt hjertes egenrådighet og dyrker andre guder for å tjene og tilbe dem, skal bli som dette beltet, ubrukelig.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Dette onde folket, som nekter å høre mine ord, som vandrer i hjertet sin trassighet, og følger andre guder for å tjene dem, og bøye seg for dem, skal bli som dette lindebåndet, som er ubrukelig.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Dette onde folket som nekter å høre mine ord, som vandrer i hjertets stahet, og som følger andre guder for å tjene og tilbe dem, skal bli som dette beltet, som ikke er brukbart til noe.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Disse onde folkene som ikke vil høre på mine ord, som fortsetter i hjertets stolthet og har blitt tjenere og tilbedere av andre guder, vil bli som dette beltet som er ubrukelig.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  This people is a wicked people, they will not heare my worde, they folowe ye wicked ymaginacions off their owne hert, & hange vpon strauge goddes, the haue they serued & worshipped: and therfore they shalbe as this brech, that serueth for nothinge.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  This wicked people haue refused to heare my word, and walke after ye stubbernesse of their owne heart, and walke after other gods to serue them, and to worship them: therefore they shalbe as this girdle, which is profitable to nothing.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  This people is a wicked people, they wyll not heare my worde, they folowe the wicked imaginations of their owne heart, and hang vpon straunge gods, them they serue and worship, and therfore they shalbe as this breeche that serueth for nothyng.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  This evil people, who refuse to hear My words, Who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, And go after other gods to serve them, And to bow themselves to them, Yea it is -- as this girdle, that is not profitable for anything.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  This evil people, that refuse to hear my words, that walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is profitable for nothing.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  These evil people who say they will not give ear to my words, who go on in the pride of their hearts and have become servants and worshippers of other gods, will become like this band which is of no use for anything.

• World English Bible (2000)

  This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  These wicked people refuse to obey what I have said. They follow the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts and pay allegiance to other gods by worshiping and serving them. So they will become just like these linen shorts which are good for nothing.

Referenced Verses

• Jer 16:12 : 12 And you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, each one walks after the imagination of his evil heart, so that you do not listen to me.
• Jer 9:14 : 14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
• Num 14:11 : 11 And the LORD said to Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be before they believe me, for all the signs which I have shown among them?
• 2 Chr 36:15-16 : 15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent warnings to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending them, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. 16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
• Jer 3:17 : 17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk anymore after the imagination of their evil heart.
• Jer 11:7-8 : 7 For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice. 8 Yet they did not obey nor incline their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart. Therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not do.
• Jer 13:7 : 7 Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it: and, behold, the belt was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
• Jer 15:1-4 : 1 Then the LORD said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth. 2 And it shall come to pass, if they say to you, Where shall we go forth? then you shall tell them, Thus says the LORD; Those for death, to death; and those for the sword, to the sword; and those for the famine, to the famine; and those for the captivity, to the captivity. 3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, says the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy. 4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.
• Jer 16:4 : 4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be mourned, nor shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth. They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, and their carcasses shall be food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.
• Jer 11:18 : 18 And the LORD has given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then you showed me their doings.
• Jer 25:3-7 : 3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even to this day, that is the twenty-third year, the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking; but you have not listened. 4 And the LORD has sent to you all His servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but you have not listened, nor inclined your ear to hear. 5 They said, 'Turn now every one from his evil way and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and to your fathers forever and ever: 6 And do not go after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and do not provoke me to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no harm.' 7 Yet you have not listened to Me, says the LORD; that you might provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands to your own harm.
• Jer 34:14-17 : 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.
• 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.
• Eph 4:17-19 : 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 Having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; 19 Who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
• Heb 12:25 : 25 See that you do not refuse him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from him who speaks from heaven:
• Jer 5:23 : 23 But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they have revolted and gone.
• Jer 7:24-28 : 24 But they did not listen, nor incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. 25 Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day I have even sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them: 26 Yet they did not listen to me, nor incline their ear, but stiffened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. 27 Therefore you shall speak all these words to them; but they will not listen to you: you shall also call to them; but they will not answer you. 28 But you shall say to them, This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the LORD their God, nor receive correction: truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
• Jer 8:5 : 5 Why then has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, they refuse to return.
• 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.
• Eccl 11:9 : 9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes — but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
• Isa 3:24 : 24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of a sweet smell there shall be stench; instead of a sash, a rope; instead of well-styled hair, baldness; instead of a rich robe, a binding of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.