Verse 34

Wail, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow in the ashes, you leaders of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and your dispersions are fulfilled; and you shall fall like a pleasant vessel.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Gråt, dere hyrder, og rop; velte dere i støvet, dere ledere av flokken, for deres dager for slakting er fullført. Dere skal falle som yndige kar.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Hyl, dere hyrder, og skrik; og rull dere i støvet, dere mektige i hjorden; for dagen for deres slakt og spredning er kommet; og dere skal falle som et verdig fartøy.

• Norsk King James

  Uro dere, dere hyrder, og gråt; og rull dere i asken, dere ledende blant flokken; for dagene for deres slakt og for deres spredning er fullført; og dere skal falle som et behagelig kar.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Skrik, dere hyrder! Rop og velt dere i støvet, dere store blant flokken! For deres dager er fullstendig ferdige for slakt, og deres spredning er kommet, og dere skal falle som et verdifullt kar.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Sørg, gjetere, og rop, veltes om, dere herskere av flokken, for dagene er kommet for slakt og spredning. Dere skal falle som et kostbart kar.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Hyl, dere hyrder, og skrik; velt dere i asken, dere ledere av flokken; for dagene for deres slakt og spredning er fullført, og dere skal falle som et kostelig kar.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Gråt, dere hyrder, og rop; vrån dere ned i asken, dere flokkledere, for dagene for deres slakt og spredning er forbi, og dere skal falle som en vakker vase.

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

  Hyl, dere hyrder, og skrik; velt dere i asken, dere ledere av flokken; for dagene for deres slakt og spredning er fullført, og dere skal falle som et kostelig kar.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Hyl, dere hyrder, og rop, velt dere i støvet, dere flokkens ledere! For deres dager er kommet til slakting, og dere skal spres, og dere faller som en kostbar gjenstand.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Weep and wail, you shepherds, cry out! Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock, for your time to be slaughtered has come. You will fall like a precious vessel.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Hyl dere, dere hyrder, og skrik! Vri dere i smerte, dere mektige i flokken, for deres dager for slakt og spredning er kommet. Dere skal falle som et kostelig kar.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Hyler, I Hyrder! og raaber og vælter eder (i Støv), I Ypperlige iblandt Faarene! thi eders Dage ere fyldte til at slagtes, og eders Adspredelser ere komne, og I skulle falde som et ønskeligt Kar.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Hy bak, hyrder, og rop; veltes i asken, dere ledere av hjorden, for dagene av deres slakt og adspredelse er kommet; dere skal falle som et dyrket kar.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Klag, dere hyrder, og rop; og velt dere [i aske], dere ledere av flokken; for dagene med deres slakt og deres spredning er fullkommen, og dere skal falle som et kostbart kar.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Hyl, dere hyrder, og rop, og rull dere i støvet, dere hederlige i flokken, for deres dager er fylt, for slakting og for deres spredning, og dere har falt som et kostbart kar.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Klag, dere hyrder, og rop; og rull dere i asken, dere lederne av flokken; for dagene for deres slakt og deres spredning er fullkommet, og dere skal falle som et vakkert kar.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Gi rop av sorg, dere voktere av sauene; gi rop om hjelp, rull dere i støvet, dere høvdinger av flokken: for deres ødeleggelses dager har fullt kommet, og jeg vil sende dere i alle retninger, og deres fall vil være som de mannlige i flokken.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Mourne (o ye shepherdes) & crie: sprinckle youre selues with a?shes, o ye rammes of the flocke: for the tyme of youre slaughter is fulfilled, and ye shal fall like vessels connyngly made for pleasure.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Howle, ye shepherdes, and crie, and wallowe your selues in the ashes, ye principall of the flocke: for your dayes of slaughter are accomplished, and of your dispersion, and ye shall fall like precious vessels.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Mourne O ye sheepheardes, and crye, sprinckle your selues with asshes O ye rammes of the flocke: for the tyme of your slaughter and breache is fulfylled, and ye shall fall lyke vessels that were much set by.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves [in the ashes], ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Wail, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow [in ashes], you principal of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully come, and you shall fall like a goodly vessel.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Howl, ye shepherds, and cry, And roll yourselves, ye honourable of the flock, For full have been your days, For slaughtering, and `for' your scatterings, And ye have fallen as a desirable vessel.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Wail, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow [in ashes], ye principal of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully come, and ye shall fall like a goodly vessel.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Give cries of grief, you keepers of sheep; give cries for help, rolling yourselves in the dust, you chiefs of the flock: for the days of your destruction have fully come, and I will send you in all directions, and your fall will be like that of the males of the flock.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Wail, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow [in ashes], you principal of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully come, and you shall fall like a goodly vessel.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Wail and cry out in anguish, you rulers! Roll in the dust, you who shepherd flocks of people! The time for you to be slaughtered has come. You will lie scattered and fallen like broken pieces of fine pottery.

Referenced Verses

• Jer 6:26 : 26 O daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make lamentation, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.
• Jer 19:10-12 : 10 Then you shall break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with you, 11 And shall say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, until there is no place left to bury. 12 Thus will I do to this place, says the LORD, and to its inhabitants, and even make this city like Tophet:
• Jer 22:28 : 28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? Is he a vessel in which there is no pleasure? Why are they cast out, he and his descendants, and cast into a land which they know not?
• Jer 25:12 : 12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, says the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
• Jer 25:23 : 23 Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who are in the farthest corners,
• Jer 25:36 : 36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a wailing of the leaders of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD has plundered their pasture.
• Jer 27:7 : 7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his grandson, until the very time of his land comes: and then many nations and great kings shall enslave him.
• Jer 48:26 : 26 Make him drunk, for he magnified himself against the LORD. Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and also he shall be in derision.
• Jer 50:27 : 27 Slay all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
• Jer 51:20-26 : 20 You are my battle axe and weapons of war; for with you I will break in pieces the nations, and with you I will destroy kingdoms; 21 And with you I will break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with you I will break in pieces the chariot and its rider; 22 With you also I will break in pieces man and woman; with you I will break in pieces old and young; and with you I will break in pieces the young man and the maiden. 23 I will also break in pieces with you the shepherd and his flock; and with you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen; and with you I will break in pieces captains and rulers. 24 And I will render to Babylon, and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea, all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says the LORD. 25 Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, says the LORD, which destroys all the earth; and I will stretch out My hand upon you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain. 26 They shall not take from you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate forever, says the LORD.
• Lam 4:21 : 21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, who dwell in the land of Uz; the cup shall also pass to you, you shall become drunk and make yourself naked.
• Ezek 27:30-31 : 30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: 31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for you, and gird themselves with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
• Ezek 34:16-17 : 16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment. 17 And as for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between the rams and the goats.
• Ezek 34:20 : 20 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD to them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
• Dan 11:8 : 8 And shall also carry captive into Egypt their gods, with their princes and their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the north.
• Amos 5:11 : 11 Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.
• Jas 5:1-2 : 1 Come now, you rich men, weep and wail for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
• 2 Chr 36:10 : 10 And when the year was expired, King Nebuchadnezzar sent for him and brought him to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah, his brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem.
• Ps 2:9 : 9 You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
• Isa 2:16 : 16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
• Isa 10:12 : 12 Therefore, it shall come to pass, that when the Lord has performed all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
• Isa 30:14 : 14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potter's vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found among its fragments a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water from the pit.
• Isa 33:1 : 1 Woe to you who plunder, though you were not plundered; and who deal treacherously, though they did not deal treacherously with you! When you cease to plunder, you will be plundered; when you stop dealing treacherously, they will deal treacherously with you.
• Isa 34:6 : 6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
• Jer 3:19 : 19 But I said, How shall I put you among the children and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? And I said, You shall call me, My Father; and shall not turn away from me.
• Jer 4:8-9 : 8 For this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us. 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.