Verse 20

For from of old I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree you wandered, playing the harlot.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  For fra gammelt av har jeg brutt ditt åk og revet dine bånd, men du sa: Jeg vil ikke tjene. På enhver høy bakke og under hvert grønt tre la du deg til å drive utroskap.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  For lenge siden brøt jeg ditt åk, rev dine bånd, men du sa: Jeg vil ikke tjene. På hver høy høyde og under hvert grønt tre løp du omkring som en horkvinne.

• Norsk King James

  For i de gamle dager brøt jeg ditt åk og rev dine bånd; men du sa: Jeg vil ikke overtrede; for du vandrer på hver høyde og under hvert grønt tre og gir deg hen til avgudene.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Fra gammelt av har jeg brutt ditt åk, revet dine bånd; men du har sagt: Jeg vil ikke tjene dem mer; likevel vandret du løs på alle høye hauger og under alle grønne tre, som en skjøge.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  For lenge siden brøt jeg ditt åk og slet dine lenker, men du sa: Jeg vil ikke tjene! For på enhver høy bakke og under hvert grønt tre lå du som en skjøge.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  For fra gammelt av har jeg brutt ditt åk og revet over dine bånd; likevel sa du: Jeg vil ikke tjene. På hver høyde og under hvert grønt tre vandret du omkring som en skjøge.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  For i gamle dager knuste jeg ditt åk og brøt dine lenker, og du sa: 'Jeg skal ikke synde' – mens du vandret på hver høyde og under hvert grønt tre, og levde ut i utroskap.

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

  For fra gammelt av har jeg brutt ditt åk og revet over dine bånd; likevel sa du: Jeg vil ikke tjene. På hver høyde og under hvert grønt tre vandret du omkring som en skjøge.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  For lenge siden brøt jeg ditt åk og rev av dine bånd, men du sa: Jeg vil ikke tjene. Likevel lå du som en skjøge på hver høy bakke og under hvert løvgrønt tre.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  For long ago I broke your yoke and tore off your bonds, but you said, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  For for lenge siden brøt jeg ditt åk og sprengte dine lenker; men du sa: Jeg vil ikke tjene. På hver høyde og under hvert grønt tre lå du og drev hor.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Da jeg havde fra fordum (Tid) sønderbrudt dit Aag, sønderrevet dine Baand, da sagde du: Jeg vil ikke tjene (dem mere); dog løb du om paa alle ophøiede Høie og under hvert grønt Træ (som) en Skjøge.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  For lenge siden brøt jeg ditt åk og sprengte dine lenker; men du sa: Jeg vil ikke bryte avtalen; når på hver høy haug og under hvert grønt tre vandret du, som en skjøge.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  For lenge siden har jeg brutt ditt åk, og sprengt dine lenker; og du sa, Jeg vil ikke tjene; for på hver høyde og under hvert grønt tre bøyde du deg, og opptrådte som en prostituert.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  For lenge siden brøt du ditt åk og rev av dine bånd, og du sa: Jeg vil ikke tjene. For på hver høyde og under hvert grønt tre vandrer du som en hore.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  For fra gammelt av har jeg brutt ditt åk, og revet dine bånd; men du sa: Jeg vil ikke tjene; for på hver høy høyde og under hvert grønt tre bøyet du deg, som en utuktig kvinne.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  For i fortiden ble ditt åk brutt av dine egne hender og dine bånd revet i stykker; og du sa, Jeg vil ikke være din tjener; for på enhver høyde og under hvert frodig tre drev du hor.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  I haue euer broken thy yock of olde, & bursten thy bondes: yet saiest thou, I wil nomore serue, but (like an harlot) thou runnest aboute vpon all hie hilles, & amonge all grene trees:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For of olde time I haue broken thy yoke, and burst thy bondes, and thou saidest, I will no more transgres, but like an harlot thou runnest about vpon al hie hilles, and vnder all greene trees.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  I haue euer broken thy yoke of olde, and burst thy bondes, yet sayest thou: I wyll no more transgresse: but like an harlot thou runnest about vpon all hye hylles, and among all greene trees.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ For of old time I have broken thy yoke, [and] burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not serve; for on every high hill and under every green tree you did bow yourself, playing the prostitute.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  For from of old thou hast broken thy yoke, Drawn away thy bands, and sayest, `I do not serve,' For, on every high height, and under every green tree, Thou art wandering -- a harlot.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bonds; and thou saidst, I will not serve; for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou didst bow thyself, playing the harlot.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman

• World English Bible (2000)

  "For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, 'I will not serve;' for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  The Lord Expresses His Exasperation at Judah’s Persistent Idolatry“Indeed, long ago you threw off my authority and refused to be subject to me. You said,‘I will not serve you.’ Instead, you gave yourself to other gods on every high hill and under every green tree, like a prostitute sprawls out before her lovers.

Referenced Verses

• Deut 12:2 : 2 You shall completely destroy all the places where the nations you are dispossessing served their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree:
• Lev 26:13 : 13 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you stand upright.
• Jer 17:2 : 2 While their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
• Jer 30:8 : 8 For it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds, and foreigners shall no more enslave him.
• Isa 1:21 : 21 How the faithful city has become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
• Hos 3:3 : 3 And I said to her, You shall stay for me many days; you shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be for another man: so will I also be for you.
• Nah 1:13 : 13 Now I will break his yoke from off you and will burst your bonds apart.
• Isa 9:4 : 4 For you have broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
• Isa 10:27 : 27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
• Isa 14:25 : 25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him underfoot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
• Isa 57:5-7 : 5 Inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the cliffs of the rocks? 6 Among the smooth stones of the stream is your portion; they, they are your lot. To them you have poured a drink offering, you have offered a meat offering. Should I find comfort in these? 7 On a lofty and high mountain you have set your bed; even there you went up to offer sacrifice.
• Jer 3:1-2 : 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. 2 Lift up your eyes to the high places and see where you have not been violated. On the roads you have sat for them, like an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your whoredoms and your wickedness.
• Jer 3:6-8 : 6 The LORD also said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot. 7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn to me. But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. 8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.
• Ezek 16:15-16 : 15 But you trusted in your own beauty, and played the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your fornications on everyone that passed by; it was his. 16 And of your garments you took, and decked your high places with different colors, and played the harlot thereupon; such things shall not come, nor shall it be so.
• Ezek 16:24-25 : 24 That you have also built yourself an eminent place, and have made yourself a high place in every street. 25 You have built your high place at every head of the way, and have made your beauty to be abhorred, and have opened your feet to everyone that passed by, and multiplied your whoredoms.
• Ezek 16:28 : 28 You have played the harlot also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the harlot with them, and yet could not be satisfied.
• Ezek 16:31 : 31 In that you build your eminent place at the head of every way, and make your high place in every street; and have not been as a harlot, that scorns payment;
• Ezek 16:41 : 41 And they shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women; and I will cause you to cease from playing the harlot, and you also shall give no remuneration any more.
• Ezek 20:28 : 28 For when I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provoking of their offering: there also they made their sweet savor, and poured out there their drink offerings.
• Ezek 23:5 : 5 And Aholah played the harlot while she was mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians her neighbors,
• Hos 2:5 : 5 For their mother has played the harlot: she who conceived them has acted shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.
• Deut 4:20 : 20 But the LORD has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as you are this day.
• Deut 4:34 : 34 Or has God attempted to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
• Deut 5:27 : 27 Go near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak to us all that the LORD our God shall speak to you; and we will hear it, and do it.
• Exod 3:8 : 8 And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good land and a large, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
• Exod 19:8 : 8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD has spoken we will do. And Moses brought back the words of the people to the LORD.
• Exod 24:3 : 3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD has said, we will do.
• Exod 34:14-16 : 14 For you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. 15 Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you, and you eat his sacrifice. 16 And you take their daughters for your sons, and their daughters go whoring after their gods, and make your sons go whoring after their gods.
• Deut 15:15 : 15 And you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this thing today.
• Deut 26:17 : 17 You have declared the LORD this day to be your God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to listen to his voice:
• Josh 1:16 : 16 And they answered Joshua, saying, All that you command us we will do, and wherever you send us, we will go.
• Josh 24:24 : 24 And the people said to Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
• Josh 24:26 : 26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a large stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
• 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.
• 1 Kgs 12:32 : 32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.
• Ps 78:58 : 58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their carved images.