Verse 3

Thus says the LORD; Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Other Translations

  • GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

    Så sier Herren: Gjør rettferdighet og rett, og redd den som er ranet fra overgriperens hånd! Undertrykk ikke innflytterne, de farløse og enkene! Urett skal ikke gjøres mot dem, og uskyldig blod skal ikke utgytes på dette stedet!

  • Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

    Så sier Herren: Utfør rett og rettferdighet, og fri den som er utsatt for vold fra undertrykkerens hånd. Gjør ingen urett, gjør ingen vold mot den fremmede, den farløse eller enken, og utøs ikke uskyldig blod på dette stedet.

  • Norsk King James

    Så sier Herren: Utfør rettferd og rett, og redde de bortførte ut av undertrykkerens hånd; og gjør ikke urett, gjør ikke vold mot fremmede, foreldreløse eller enker, og utgytt ikke uskyldig blod på dette stedet.

  • Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

    Så sa Herren: Gjør rett og rettferdighet, fri den røvede fra voldsmannens hånd; undertrykk ikke fremmede, farløse og enker, gjør ikke urett mot dem, og utøs ikke uskyldig blod på dette stedet.

  • Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

    Så sier Herren: Utfør rett og rettferdighet, redd den utplyndrede fra undertrykkerens hånd. Gjør ikke urett mot eller undertrykk den fremmede, de farløse eller enker. Ikke utøs uskyldig blod på dette stedet.

  • Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

    Så sier Herren: Utøv rettferdighet og rett, og fri den som har blitt plyndret ut av undertrykkerens hånd; og gjør ingen urett, utøv ikke vold mot fremmede, farløse eller enker, og utøs ikke uskyldig blod på dette stedet.

  • o3-mini KJV Norsk

    Slik sier HERREN: Utøv rettferdighet og dom, og frels de plyndrede fra undertrykkerens hånd. Gjør ikke urett, utøv ingen vold mot fremmede, foreldreløse eller enker, og utømm ikke uskyldig blod her i dette stedet.

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

    Så sier Herren: Utøv rettferdighet og rett, og fri den som har blitt plyndret ut av undertrykkerens hånd; og gjør ingen urett, utøv ikke vold mot fremmede, farløse eller enker, og utøs ikke uskyldig blod på dette stedet.

  • Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

    Så sier Herren: Handl med rettferdighet og rett, og fri den som er ranet ut av undertrykkerens hånd. Undertrykk ikke innflyttere, farløse eller enker. Gjør ingen urett mot dem, og utøs ikke uskyldig blod på dette stedet.

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    This is what the LORD says: Practice justice and righteousness. Rescue the one who has been robbed from the hand of the oppressor. Do not mistreat or harm the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.

  • biblecontext

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  • GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

    Så sier Herren: Gjør rett og rettferd, og befri den som er ranet fra undertrykkerens hånd. Ikke undertrykk eller utbytt den fremmede, den farløse eller enken, og ikke utøs uskyldig blod på dette stedet.

  • Original Norsk Bibel 1866

    Saa sagde Herren: Gjører Ret og Retfærdighed, og redder en Røvet af en Voldsmands Haand; og en Fremmed, en Faderløs og en Enke skulle I ikke forfordele, ikke gjøre Vold og ikke udøse uskyldigt Blod paa dette Sted.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

  • KJV 1769 norsk

    Så sier Herren: Utfør rettferdighet og rett, og frigi den som er plyndret, fra undertrykkerens hånd. Gjør ingen urett, gjør ikke vold mot den fremmede, den farløse eller enken, og ikke utøs uskyldig blod på dette stedet.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Webster

    Så sier Herren: Utøv lov og rett, fri den som er blitt ranet fra undertrykkerens hånd. Gjør ingen urett, vis ingen vold mot fremmede, farløse eller enker, og utøs ikke uskyldig blod på dette stedet.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

    Så sier Herren: Gjør rett og rettferdighet, og fri den som blir røvet fra undertrykkerens hånd. Undertrykk ikke innflyttere, farløse og enker, og utøs ikke uskyldig blod på dette stedet.

  • Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

    Så sier Herren: Utfør rett og rettferdighet, og befri den som blir ranet fra undertrykkerens hånd. Gjør ikke urett, gjør ikke vold mot innflytteren, farløse eller enken; og utøs ikke uskyldig blod på dette stedet.

  • Norsk oversettelse av BBE

    Dette er hva Herren har sagt: Gjør det som er rett, døm rettferdig, og frigjør den som har blitt frarøvet sitt gods fra den grusomme. Gjør ingen urett og vær ikke voldelig mot den fremmede, den farløse og enken, og la ikke dem som ikke har gjort noe galt bli drept på dette stedet.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Thus the LORDE commaundeth: kepe equite and rightuousnesse, delyuer the oppressed fro the power off the violent: do not greue ner oppresse the straunger, the fatherlesse ner the wyddowe, ad shed no innocet bloude in this place.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Thus saith the Lorde, Execute ye iudgement and righteousnes, and deliuer the oppressed from the hande of the oppressor, and vexe not the stranger, the fatherlesse, nor the widowe: doe no violence, nor sheade innocent blood in this place.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Thus the Lord comaundeth: Kepe equitie and righteousnesse, deliuer the oppressed from the power of the violent, do not greeue nor oppresse the straunger, the fatherlesse, nor the widowe, and shed no innocent blood in this place.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Thus says Yahweh: Execute you justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Thus saith Jehovah: Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    The LORD says,“Do what is just and right. Deliver those who have been robbed from those who oppress them. Do not exploit or mistreat resident foreigners who live in your land, children who have no fathers, or widows. Do not kill innocent people in this land.

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 21:12 : 12 O house of David, thus says the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him who is plundered out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury goes out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.
  • Jer 22:17 : 17 But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.
  • Ezek 22:7 : 7 In you they have treated father and mother with contempt: in your midst they have dealt oppressively with the stranger: in you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
  • Mic 6:8 : 8 He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
  • Zech 7:9-9 : 9 Thus says the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother: 10 And do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you plot evil against his brother in your heart. 11 But they refused to heed, and shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears, so they should not hear.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who oppress the laborer in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
  • Joel 3:19 : 19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
  • Mic 3:11 : 11 The leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.
  • Jer 26:16 : 16 Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, This man is not worthy to die, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.
  • Exod 22:22 : 22 You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
  • Exod 23:6-9 : 6 You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his dispute. 7 Keep far from a false matter, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked. 8 And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous. 9 Also you shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger, because you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
  • Lev 19:15 : 15 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.
  • Deut 10:18 : 18 He executes the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.
  • Deut 16:18-20 : 18 Judges and officers you shall make for yourself in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment. 19 You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality, nor take a bribe: for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous. 20 That which is altogether just you shall follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.
  • Deut 19:10-13 : 10 That innocent blood may not be shed in your land, which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and thus blood guilt be upon you. 11 But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and flees into one of these cities; 12 Then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, so that he may die. 13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.
  • Deut 24:7 : 7 If a man is found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and makes merchandise of him, or sells him; then that thief shall die; and you shall put away the evil from among you.
  • Deut 25:1 : 1 If there is a dispute between men, and they come to judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
  • Deut 27:19 : 19 Cursed be he who perverts the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • 2 Sam 23:3 : 3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He who rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
  • 2 Kgs 24:4 : 4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not pardon.
  • Job 22:9 : 9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
  • Job 24:9 : 9 They snatch the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge from the poor.
  • Job 29:7-9 : 7 When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square! 8 The young men saw me and hid themselves; even the aged arose and stood. 9 The princes refrained from speaking, and laid their hands on their mouths. 10 The nobles kept silence, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths. 11 When the ear heard me, it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it approved me; 12 Because I delivered the poor who cried out, the fatherless, and the one who had no helper. 13 The blessing of a dying man came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a crown. 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. 16 I was a father to the poor, and I searched out the case I did not know. 17 And I broke the fangs of the wicked, and plucked the victim from his teeth.
  • Ps 68:5 : 5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
  • Ps 72:2-4 : 2 He shall judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice. 3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, through righteousness. 4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall crush the oppressor.
  • Ps 94:6 : 6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
  • Ps 94:21 : 21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.
  • Prov 6:17 : 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
  • Prov 23:10 : 10 Do not remove the ancient landmark, and do not enter the fields of the fatherless:
  • Isa 1:15-20 : 15 And when you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: indeed, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. 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: 20 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
  • Isa 1:23 : 23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they do not judge the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.
  • Jer 5:28 : 28 They have grown fat, they shine: yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked: they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy they do not judge.
  • Jer 7:5-6 : 5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your deeds; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor; 6 If you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your harm;
  • Jer 9:24 : 24 But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth: for in these things I delight, says the LORD.'