Verse 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?

Other Translations

  • GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

    O generasjon, hør Herrens ord. Har jeg vært en ørken for Israel eller et mørkt land? Hvorfor sier mitt folk: Vi er frie, vi kommer ikke lenger til deg?

  • Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

    Å generasjon, se Herrens ord! Har jeg vært en ørken for Israel, eller et land av mørke? Hvorfor sier mitt folk: Vi er herrer, vi vil ikke komme tilbake til deg mer?

  • Norsk King James

    O generasjon, se Herrens ord. Har jeg vært en ødemark for Israel? Et mørkt land? Hvorfor sier mitt folk: Vi er herrer, vi vil ikke komme mer til deg?

  • Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

    O generasjon, merk Herrens ord; har jeg vært som en ørken for Israel, eller som et land med store mørker? Hvorfor sier mitt folk: Vi herjer, vi vil ikke komme til deg lenger?

  • Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

    Åh, generasjon, se Herrens ord! Har jeg vært en ørken for Israel, et land med dyp mørke? Hvorfor sier mitt folk: Vi har brutt båndene, vi vil ikke komme tilbake til deg?

  • Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

    Å generasjon, merk dere Herrens ord. Har jeg vært en ørken for Israel? Eller et land med dyp mørke? Hvorfor sier mitt folk: Vi har herredømme; vi vil ikke komme mer til deg?

  • o3-mini KJV Norsk

    O generasjon, se Herrens ord: Har jeg vært som en øde ørken for Israel, et land av mørke? Hvorfor sier da mitt folk: 'Vi er herrer; vi skal aldri vende tilbake til deg'?

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

    Å generasjon, merk dere Herrens ord. Har jeg vært en ørken for Israel? Eller et land med dyp mørke? Hvorfor sier mitt folk: Vi har herredømme; vi vil ikke komme mer til deg?

  • Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

    Å dere slekt, legg merke til Herrens ord. Har jeg vært en ørken for Israel eller et land med mørke? Hvorfor sier mitt folk: Vi styrer selv, vi vil ikke komme tilbake til deg?

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: ‘Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of deep darkness? Why do my people say, “We are free to roam; we will come to you no more”?’

  • biblecontext

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  • GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

    O generasjon, se Herrens ord! Har jeg vært en ørken for Israel, eller et land med mørke skygger? Hvorfor sier mitt folk: Vi har revet løs, vi vil ikke lenger komme til deg?

  • Original Norsk Bibel 1866

    O Slægt! seer (dog og mærker) Herrens Ord; er jeg bleven Israel til en Ørk eller til et meget mørkt Land? hvorfor sagde (da) mit Folk: Vi herske, vi ville ikke ydermere komme til dig?

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?

  • KJV 1769 norsk

    Å generasjon, se Herrens ord. Har jeg vært en ørken for Israel? Et land av mørke? Hvorfor sier mitt folk: Vi er herrer; vi kommer ikke mer til deg?

  • Norsk oversettelse av Webster

    Generasjon, se Yahwehs ord. Har jeg vært en ørken for Israel? Eller et land av tett mørke? Hvorfor sier mitt folk, Vi er løslatt; vi vil ikke mer komme til deg?

  • Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

    Å generasjon, se på Herrens ord: Har jeg vært en ørken for Israel? Et land av tett mørke? Hvorfor sier mitt folk: Vi har dratt oss bort, vi kommer ikke tilbake til deg?

  • Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

    Å, slekt, se Herrens ord. Har jeg vært en ørken for Israel? Eller et land med tett mørke? Hvorfor sier mitt folk: Vi er fri; vi vil ikke komme til deg mer?

  • Norsk oversettelse av BBE

    Å generasjon, se Herrens ord. Har jeg vært en øde land for Israel? eller et land med mørk natt? hvorfor sier mitt folk, Vi er fri, vi vil ikke komme tilbake til deg?

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Yf ye be the people of the LORDE, then herke vnto his worde: Am I the become a wildernesse vnto the people of Israel? or a londe that hath no light? Wherfore saieth my people then: we are falle of, and we wil come no more vnto the?

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    O generation, take heede to the worde of the Lorde: haue I bene as a wildernesse vnto Israel? or a lande of darkenesse? Wherefore sayeth my people then, We are lordes, we will come no more vnto thee?

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Oh generation, hearken vnto the worde of the Lorde: Am I become a wildernesse vnto the people of Israel? or a lande that hath no lyght? wherfore saith my people then, We are lordes, we wyll come no more vnto thee?

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Generation, see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? or a land of thick darkness? why say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more to you?

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah: A wilderness have I been to Israel? A land of thick darkness? Wherefore have My people said, `We mourned, We come not in again unto Thee.'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? or a land of thick darkness? wherefore say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more unto thee?

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Generation, consider the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, 'We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?'

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    You people of this generation, listen to the LORD’s message.“Have I been like a wilderness to you, Israel? Have I been like a dark and dangerous land to you? Why then do you say,‘We are free to wander. We will not come to you any more?’

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 32:15 : 15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked: you have grown fat, you have grown thick, you are covered with fatness; then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
  • 2 Sam 12:7-9 : 7 Nathan said to David, You are the man. Thus says the LORD God of Israel, I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. 8 I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would have given you much more. 9 Why have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
  • 2 Chr 31:10 : 10 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat and have left plenty, for the LORD has blessed his people; and what is left is this great store.
  • Neh 9:21-25 : 21 For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell. 22 Moreover, You gave them kingdoms and nations, and divided them into districts: So they possessed the land of Sihon, the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan. 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. 24 So the children entered and possessed the land; You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them as they wished. 25 And they captured fortified cities and a fertile land, and took possession of houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled and became fat, and delighted themselves in Your great goodness.
  • Ps 10:4 : 4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God; God is not in all his thoughts.
  • Ps 12:4 : 4 Who have said, With our tongue we will prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
  • Prov 30:9 : 9 Lest I be full and deny You, and say, Who is the LORD? Or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
  • Isa 45:19 : 19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Seek Me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
  • Jer 2:5-6 : 5 Thus says the LORD, What wrong have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have followed idols, and have become idolaters? 6 Neither did they say, Where is the LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no one lived?
  • Hos 2:7-8 : 7 And she shall pursue her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband; for it was better with me then than now. 8 For she did not know that I gave her grain, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.
  • Hos 13:6 : 6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore they have forgotten me.
  • Amos 1:1 : 1 The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
  • Mic 6:9 : 9 The LORD'S voice cries to the city, and the man of wisdom will see Your name: Hear the rod, and who has appointed it.
  • Mal 3:9-9 : 9 You are cursed with a curse, for you have robbed me, even this whole nation. 10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and try me now in this, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open for you the windows of heaven, and pour out for you a blessing, that there will not be room enough to receive it. 11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; nor shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field, says the LORD of hosts.
  • 1 Cor 4:8 : 8 Now you are full, now you are rich! You have reigned as kings without us—and indeed, I wish you did reign, that we also might reign with you!
  • Rev 3:15-17 : 15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I wish you were cold or hot. 16 So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spit you out of my mouth. 17 Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and do not know that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
  • Deut 8:12-14 : 12 Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses, and dwelt therein; 13 And when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; 14 Then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
  • Deut 31:20 : 20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, that flows with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.