Verse 11

Now therefore go, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you: return now everyone from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Så si til mennene i Juda og innbyggerne i Jerusalem: Så sier Herren: Se, jeg former ulykker mot dere, og jeg har utarbeidet en plan mot dere. Vend nå hver enkelt tilbake fra sin onde vei og forbedre deres veier og handlinger.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Så gå nå og snakk til mennene i Juda og innbyggerne i Jerusalem og si: Så sier Herren: Se, jeg utformer ondt mot dere, og planlegger en plan mot dere. Vend om fra deres onde veier, og gjør deres veier og gjerninger gode.

• Norsk King James

  Gå derfor til mennene i Juda og til innbyggerne i Jerusalem, og si: "Så sier Herren: Se, jeg bringer over dere en ulykke: vend dere fra deres onde veier og gjør gode gjerninger."

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Og nå, tal til mennene i Juda og innbyggerne i Jerusalem og si: Så sier Herren: Se, jeg planlegger ulykke mot dere og tenker å sette min plan ut i livet; vend om, hver fra sin onde vei, og forbedre deres gjerninger og handlinger.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Og nå, si til Judas menn og Jerusalems innbyggere: Så sier Herren: Se, jeg utformer en ulykke mot dere og har planlagt en plan mot dere. Vend om, hver fra sin onde vei, og bedre deres veier og gjerninger.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Gå nå og si til mennene i Juda og innbyggerne i Jerusalem: Så sier Herren: Se, jeg planlegger ulykke mot dere, og lager en plan mot dere: Vend dere nå fra deres onde veier, og forbedre deres veier og handlinger.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Gå derfor og tal til Juda-folket og Jerusalems innbyggere og si: Slik sier HERREN: Se, jeg legger en ond plan mot dere og har forberedt en straff. Vend dere nå alle bort fra deres onde vei, og gjør deres veier og handlinger rett.

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

  Gå nå og si til mennene i Juda og innbyggerne i Jerusalem: Så sier Herren: Se, jeg planlegger ulykke mot dere, og lager en plan mot dere: Vend dere nå fra deres onde veier, og forbedre deres veier og handlinger.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Og nå, si til Judas menn og til innbyggerne i Jerusalem: Så sier Herren: Se, jeg former ulykke mot dere og planlegger en plan mot dere. Vend om nå, hver fra sin onde vei, og forbedre deres veier og gjerninger.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  And now, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, ‘Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each one from his evil way, and reform your ways and deeds.’

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Si derfor nå til mennene i Juda og innbyggerne i Jerusalem: Så sier Herren: Se, jeg former onde hensikter mot dere og tenker onde tanker mot dere. Vend derfor om, hver fra sin onde vei, og gjør deres veier og gjerninger gode.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Og nu, Kjære! tal til Judæ Mænd og til Jerusalems Indbyggere, sigende: Saa sagde Herren: See, jeg danner Ulykke over eder, og betænker et Anslag imod eder; vender dog om, hver fra sin den onde Vei, og bedrer eders Veie og eders Idrætter,

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of usalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Gå derfor nå og tal til mennene i Juda og innbyggerne i Jerusalem, og si, slik sier Herren: «Se, jeg planlegger ulykke mot dere og legger en plan mot dere. Vend nå tilbake, hver av dere, fra deres onde vei, og forbedre deres veier og gjerninger.»

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Nå skal du derfor tale til mennene i Juda og innbyggerne i Jerusalem og si: Så sier Herren: Se, jeg legger onde tanker mot dere, og jeg har laget en plan mot dere. Vend nå om hver og en fra sin onde vei, og forbedre deres veier og handlinger.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Og nå, tal til mennene i Juda og til innbyggerne i Jerusalem, og si: Så sier Herren: Se, jeg planlegger ulykke mot dere, og legger opp en plan mot dere. Vend om, hver fra sin onde vei, og forbedre deres veier og gjerninger.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Tal derfor til mennene i Juda og innbyggerne i Jerusalem og si: Så sier Herren: Se, jeg utformer noe ondt mot dere, og tenker ut en plan mot dere. Vend om fra deres onde veier, og gjør deres gjerninger og leven bedre.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Si derfor til mennene i Juda og til folket i Jerusalem: Dette sier Herren: Se, jeg planlegger en ulykke mot dere og tenker ut en plan mot dere. Vend om fra deres onde vei, og forandre deres veier og gjerninger til det bedre.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Speake now therfore vnto whole Iuda, and to them that dwell at Ierusalem: Thus saieth the LORDE: Beholde, I am deuysinge a plage for you, and am takinge a thinge in honde agaynst you. Therfore, let euery man turne from his euell waye, take vpon you the thinge that is good, and do right.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Speake thou nowe therefore vnto the men of Iudah, and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem, saying, Thus saith ye Lord, Behold, I prepare a plague for you, and purpose a thing against you: returne you therefore euery one from his euill way, and make your wayes and your workes good.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Speake nowe therfore vnto whole Iuda, and to them that dwell at Hierusalem, thus saith the Lorde, Beholde I am deuisyng a plague for you, and am takyng a thyng in hande agaynst you: therfore let euery man turne from his euyll way, and take vpon you the thyng that is good and ryght.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return you now everyone from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And now, speak, I pray thee, unto men of Judah, And against inhabitants of Jerusalem, Saying: Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am framing against you evil, And devising against you a device, Turn back, I pray you, each from his evil way And amen your ways and your doings.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Now, then, say to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am forming an evil thing against you, and designing a design against you: let every man come back now from his evil way, and let your ways and your doings be changed for the better.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return you now everyone from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  So now, tell the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem this: The LORD says,‘I am preparing to bring disaster on you! I am making plans to punish you. So, every one of you, stop the evil things you have been doing. Correct the way you have been living and do what is right.’

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 17:13 : 13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets and by all the seers, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
• Isa 1:16-19 : 16 Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land:
• Jer 35:15 : 15 I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and you shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me.
• Jer 7:3 : 3 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will allow you to dwell in this place.
• Jer 25:5 : 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:
• Mic 2:3 : 3 Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, against this family I devise an evil from which you shall not remove your necks; neither shall you go haughtily, for this time is evil.
• Zech 1:3 : 3 Therefore say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn to Me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will turn to you, says the LORD of hosts.
• Acts 26:20 : 20 But showed first to those of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works fitting for repentance.
• Jas 5:1 : 1 Come now, you rich men, weep and wail for your miseries that shall come upon you.
• Isa 5:5 : 5 And now, I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down:
• Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near. 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
• Jer 3:1 : 1 They say, If a man divorces his wife, and she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, shall he return to her again? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, says the LORD.
• Jer 3:22 : 22 Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come to you; for you are the LORD our God.
• Jer 4:6 : 6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retreat, do not stay: for I will bring disaster from the north, and great destruction.
• Jer 4:23 : 23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was formless and empty; and the heavens, and they had no light.
• 2 Kgs 22:13 : 13 Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not heeded the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us.
• Gen 11:3-4 : 3 And they said to one another, Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and tar they had for mortar. 4 And they said, Come, let us build a city and a tower whose top may reach to heaven, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.
• Gen 11:7 : 7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
• 2 Kgs 5:5 : 5 And the king of Syria said, Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, six thousand gold pieces, and ten changes of clothing.
• Jer 36:3 : 3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the disaster I intend to do to them; that every man may turn from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
• Jer 36:7 : 7 It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and each will turn from his evil way; for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people.
• Jer 51:11 : 11 Polish the arrows; gather the shields; the LORD has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, for His plan is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of His temple.
• Lam 3:39-41 : 39 Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? 40 Let us search and examine our ways and turn back to the LORD. 41 Let us lift up our heart along with our hands to God in the heavens.
• 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.
• Ezek 18:23 : 23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? says the Lord GOD, and not that he should return from his ways and live?
• Ezek 18:30-32 : 30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, says the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, O house of Israel? 32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the Lord GOD: therefore turn yourselves, and live.
• Jas 4:13 : 13 Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city and spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit;
• Jer 26:3 : 3 Perhaps they will listen and each man will turn from his evil way, that I may relent of the evil I plan to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.
• Jer 26:13 : 13 Therefore now amend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will relent of the evil that he has pronounced against you.
• Jer 11:19 : 19 But I was like a gentle lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.
• Jer 18:18 : 18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.