Verse 13

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and carved themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  For to onde ting har mitt folk gjort: De har forlatt meg, kilden med det levende vann, og de har hogd seg ut brønner, sprukne brønner som ikke kan holde vann.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  For mitt folk har gjort to onde ting: de har forlatt meg, kilden med levende vann, og hogget seg brønner, sprukne brønner som ikke holder vann.

• Norsk King James

  For mitt folk har begått to onde handlinger; de har forlatt meg, kilden til levende vann, og gravd ut seg brønner, knuste brønner, som ikke kan holde vann.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  For mitt folk har gjort to onde ting: De har forlatt meg, kilden med levende vann, og hogget seg cisterner, sprukne cisterner som ikke holder vann.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  For to onde ting har mitt folk gjort: De har forlatt meg, kilden med levende vann, og hugget seg cisterner, sprukne cisterner som ikke holder vann.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  For mitt folk har gjort to onde ting: De har forlatt meg, kilden med det levende vannet, og hogd seg sisterner, sprukne sisterner som ikke kan holde vann.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  For mitt folk har gjort to onde ting: de har forlatt meg, livets kilde, og de har hugget ut brøtne tanker som ikke kan holde vann.

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

  For mitt folk har gjort to onde ting: De har forlatt meg, kilden med det levende vannet, og hogd seg sisterner, sprukne sisterner som ikke kan holde vann.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  For mitt folk har gjort to onde ting: De har forlatt meg, kilden til levende vann, og de har hugget seg sisterner, sprukne sisterner som ikke holder vann.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  For to onde ting har mitt folk gjort: Meg har de forlatt, kilden med levende vann, og hugget seg brønner, sprukne brønner som ikke holder vann.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Thi mit Folk gjorde tvende onde Ting: De forlode mig, den levende Vandkilde, at hugge sig Brønde, (ja) sønderbrudte Brønde, som ikke kunde holde Vand.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  For mitt folk har gjort to onde ting; de har forlatt meg, kilden til det levende vann, og hogget ut for seg brønner, knuste brønner som ikke holder vann.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  For mitt folk har begått to onde: de har forlatt meg, kilden med levende vann, og hogget ut brønner for seg selv, sprukne brønner som ikke kan holde vann.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  For to onde ting har mitt folk gjort: Meg har de forlatt, kilden med levende vann, og hogget seg ut brønner, sprukne brønner som ikke holder vann.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  For mitt folk har gjort to onde ting: de har forlatt meg, kilden til det levende vann, og hugget seg brønner, sprukne brønner, som ikke kan holde vann.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  For mitt folk har gjort to onde ting; de har forlatt meg, kilden med levende vann, og de har laget seg vannkar, hugget ut av berg, sprukne vannkar som ikke kan holde vann.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For my people hath done two euels. They haue forsake me the well of the water of life, and digged them pittes, yee vile and broken pittes, that holde no water.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For my people haue committed two euils: they haue forsaken mee the fountaine of liuing waters, to digge them pittes, euen broken pittes, that can holde no water.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For my people hath done two euils: they haue forsaken me the well of the water of lyfe, and digged them pittes, yea vile and broken pittes that can holde no water.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  For two evils hath My people done, Me they have forsaken, a fountain of living waters, To hew out for themselves wells -- broken wells, That contain not the waters.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.

• World English Bible (2000)

  "For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  “Do so because my people have committed a double wrong: they have rejected me, the fountain of life-giving water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water.”

Referenced Verses

• Ps 36:9 : 9 For with you is the fountain of life: in your light shall we see light.
• John 4:14 : 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
• Jer 17:13 : 13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake you shall be ashamed, and those that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
• Rev 22:1 : 1 And he showed me a pure river of the water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb.
• Isa 55:2 : 2 Why do you spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in abundance.
• Rev 22:17 : 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him who hears say, Come. And let him who is thirsty come. And whoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
• Rev 21:6 : 6 And he said to me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him that is thirsty of the fountain of the water of life freely.
• John 7:37 : 37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
• Jer 15:6 : 6 You have forsaken me, says the LORD, you have gone backward: therefore I will stretch out my hand against you, and destroy you; I am weary with repenting.
• Ps 81:11-13 : 11 But my people would not listen to my voice; and Israel did not want me. 12 So I gave them up to their own hearts' desires, and they walked in their own counsels. 13 Oh, that my people would have listened to me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
• Ps 115:4-8 : 4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. 5 They have mouths, but they do not speak; eyes they have, but they do not see; 6 They have ears, but they do not hear; noses they have, but they do not smell; 7 They have hands, but they do not handle; feet they have, but they do not walk; nor do they speak through their throat. 8 Those who make them are like them; so is everyone who trusts in them.
• Ps 146:3-4 : 3 Do not put your trust in princes, nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help. 4 His breath departs, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
• Eccl 1:2 : 2 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
• Eccl 1:14 : 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
• Eccl 2:11 : 11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labor I had toiled to do; and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
• Eccl 2:21 : 21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, knowledge, and skill. Yet he must leave his inheritance to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
• Eccl 2:26 : 26 For God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy to the man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and collecting, only to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
• Eccl 4:4 : 4 Again, I considered all the toil and every right work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
• Eccl 12:8 : 8 Vanity of vanities, says the preacher; all is vanity.
• Isa 1:3 : 3 The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people do not consider.
• Isa 5:13 : 13 Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
• Isa 44:9-9 : 9 Those who make a carved image are all of them vanity; and their delightful things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. 10 Who has formed a god, or cast a carved image that is profitable for nothing? 11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together. 12 The smith with the tongs both works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with the strength of his arms: yes, he is hungry, and his strength fails: he drinks no water, and is faint. 13 The carpenter stretches out his rule; he marks it out with a line; he fits it with planes, and he marks it out with the compass, and makes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house. 14 He cuts down cedars, and takes the cypress and the oak, which he strengthens for himself among the trees of the forest: he plants an ash, and the rain nourishes it. 15 Then it shall be for a man to burn: for he will take of it, and warm himself; yes, he kindles it, and bakes bread; yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it a carved image, and falls down to it. 16 He burns part of it in the fire; with part of it he eats flesh; he roasts a roast, and is satisfied: yes, he warms himself, and says, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire: 17 And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his carved image: he falls down to it, and worships it, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me, for you are my god. 18 They have not known nor understood: for he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand. 19 And none considers in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yes, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the rest of it an abomination? shall I fall down to the stump of a tree? 20 He feeds on ashes: a deceived heart has turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
• Isa 46:6-7 : 6 They pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver on the scales, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god: they fall down, yes, they worship. 7 They carry him upon the shoulder, they bear him, and set him in his place, and he stands; from his place he shall not move: yes, one shall cry to him, yet he cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
• Isa 63:8 : 8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Savior.
• Jer 1:16 : 16 And I will utter My judgments against them concerning all their wickedness, who have forsaken Me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
• Jer 2:11 : 11 Has a nation changed their gods, which are not gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
• Jer 2:17 : 17 Have you not brought this upon yourself, in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, when he led you in the way?
• Jer 2:26 : 26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,
• Jer 2:31-32 : 31 O generation, behold the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? a land of darkness? why do my people say, We are lords; we will come no more to you? 32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
• Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are senseless children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
• Jer 5:26 : 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay in wait, as he who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
• Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end thereof?
• 2 Pet 2:17 : 17 These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, to whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.
• Judg 10:13 : 13 Yet you have forsaken Me and served other gods; therefore, I will deliver you no more.
• 1 Sam 12:10 : 10 And they cried to the LORD, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.
• Jer 18:14 : 14 Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which comes from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?
• Mic 2:8 : 8 Even of late my people has risen up as an enemy: you pull off the robe with the garment from those who pass by securely as men averse from war.
• Mic 6:3 : 3 O my people, what have I done to you? And how have I wearied you? Testify against Me.