Verse 9

Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Se, jeg vil sende for å hente alle slektene fra nord, sier Herren, og Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babel, min tjener. Jeg vil føre dem mot dette landet og dets innbyggere, og mot alle de folkene som omgir det. Jeg vil utslette dem og gjøre det til et skrekkeksempel og en evig ødeleggelse.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  se, jeg vil sende og ta alle slektene fra nord, sier Herren, og Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, min tjener, og føre dem mot dette landet, og mot dets innbyggere, og mot alle disse nasjonene rundt omkring, og jeg vil ødelegge dem fullstendig og gjøre dem til et skrekkens syn, en hån og en evig ødemark.

• Norsk King James

  Se, jeg vil sende og hente alle familiene fra nord, sier Herren, og Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, min tjener. Jeg vil bringe dem mot dette landet, mot innbyggerne der, og mot alle nasjonene rundt omkring; jeg vil fullstendig ødelegge dem og gjøre dem til en skrekk og til evig ødeleggelse.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  så ser jeg, jeg sender bud etter slektene i nord, sier Herren, og til Nebukadnesar, Babels konge, min tjener, og jeg vil føre dem over dette landet, over dets innbyggere, og over alle disse folkene rundt, og jeg skal ødelegge dem og gjøre dem til en forskrekkelse og til et hån, og til evige ørkener.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  så kaller jeg på alle folkene i nord, sier Herren, og jeg vil sende etter Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, min tjener, og jeg vil føre dem mot dette landet og mot dets innbyggere og mot alle de omkringliggende folkene. Jeg vil ødelegge dem og gjøre dem til et eksempel og til en ødslighet for alltid.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Se, jeg vil sende og ta alle folkene fra nord, sier Herren, sammen med Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, min tjener, og føre dem mot dette landet, dets innbyggere, og alle disse nasjonene rundt omkring. Jeg vil fullstendig ødelegge dem og gjøre dem til en forskrekkelse, og en hånlatter, og til evige ørkener.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Se, jeg skal sende og samle alle familiene fra nord, sier Herren, og Nebukadnesar, Babylon-kongen, min tjener, skal jeg sende, for å føre dem mot dette landet, mot dets innbyggere og alle de omkringliggende nasjoner. Jeg skal fullstendig ødelegge dem og gjøre dem til en forundring, et sisp og en evig ødeleggelse.

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

  Se, jeg vil sende og ta alle folkene fra nord, sier Herren, sammen med Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, min tjener, og føre dem mot dette landet, dets innbyggere, og alle disse nasjonene rundt omkring. Jeg vil fullstendig ødelegge dem og gjøre dem til en forskrekkelse, og en hånlatter, og til evige ørkener.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  skal jeg sende etter alle nordens slekter, sier Herren, og etter Nebukadnesar, Babylons konge, min tjener. Jeg skal bringe dem mot dette landet og mot dets innbyggere og alle de omgivende nasjonene. Jeg skal fullstendig utslette dem, gjøre dem til en ødelagt og vanærende ruin for alltid.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  I am about to send for all the clans of the north,' declares the LORD, 'and for my servant Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, its inhabitants, and all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy them, making them an object of horror, scorn, and perpetual ruins.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  så sender jeg bud etter alle folkene i nord, sier Herren, og etter Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, min tjener, og fører dem mot dette landet og dets innbyggere og mot alle disse folkene rundt omkring. Jeg skal ødelegge dem og gjøre dem til en redselsfull ruin, til spott og evig ødeleggelse.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  see, saa sender jeg hen og vil tage (til mig) alle Slægter af Norden, siger Herren, og til Nebucadnezar, Kongen af Babel, min Tjener, og jeg vil føre dem over dette Land og over dets Indbyggere og over alle disse Folk trindt omkring, og jeg vil ødelægge dem og gjøre dem til en Forskrækkelse og til Hvidsel og til evige Ørkener.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  se, jeg vil sende etter alle folkene i nord, sier Herren, og etter Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, min tjener, og føre dem mot dette landet og mot dets innbyggere og mot alle nabonasjoene. Jeg vil gjøre dem til en fullstendig ødeleggelse, gjøre dem til et fryktelig eksempel, og til evigvarende ørkener.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  se, så sender jeg og henter alle familie fra nord, sier Herren, og jeg vil sende til Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, min tjener, og bringe dem mot dette landet, og mot dets innbyggere, og mot alle disse nasjonene rundt om; og jeg vil fullstendig ødelegge dem, og gjøre dem til et skrekkens eksempel, til hån og evige forlatelser.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Se, jeg sender og henter alle slektene fra nord, - et utsagn fra Herren - til og med Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babel, min tjener, og henter dem til dette landet, og mot dets innbyggere, og mot alle disse folkene rundt omkring, og jeg gir dem til ødeleggelse, til forandring, til hån og til evig ødeleggelse.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  se, jeg vil sende etter alle folkene i nord, sier Herren, og jeg vil sende etter Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, min tjener, og bringe dem mot dette landet, og mot dets innbyggere, og mot alle disse nasjonene rundt. Jeg vil helt ødelegge dem, og gjøre dem til en forferdelse, en hån, og evige ødeleggelser.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Se, jeg vil sende og ta alle familiene i nord, sier Herren, og Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, min tjener, og føre dem mot dette landet, og mot dets folk, og mot alle disse nasjonene rundt; og jeg vil gi dem til fullstendig ødeleggelse, og gjøre dem til en grunn til frykt og overraskelse og en øde plass for alltid.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  lo, I will sende out, & call for all the people, yt dwell in the north (saieth the LORDE) & wil prepayre Nabuchodonosor the kinge of Babilon my seruaunt, and wil bringe them vpon this londe, and vpon all yt dwell therein, & vpon all the people that are aboute them, and will vterly rote them out. I will make of them a wildernesse, a mockage, and a continuall deserte.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Beholde, I will send and take to mee all the families of the North, saith the Lorde, and Nebuchad-nezzar the King of Babel my seruant, & will bring them against this lande, and against the inhabitantes thereof, and against all these nations rounde about, and will destroy them, and make them an astonishment and an hissing, and a continuall desolation.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Lo, I wyll sende out and call for all the people that dwell in the north saith the Lorde, and wyll prepare Nabuchodonozar the kyng of Babylon my seruaunt, and wyll bryng them vpon this lande, and vpon all that dwell therin, and vpon all the people that are about them, and wyll vtterly roote them out: I wyll make them amased, a mockage, and a continuall desert.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Yahweh, and [I will send] to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Lo, I am sending, and have taken all the families of the north -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- even unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and have brought them in against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and have devoted them, and appointed them for an astonishment, and for a hissing, and for wastes age-during.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and [I will send] unto Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  See, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, my servant, and make them come against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations on every side; and I will give them up to complete destruction, and make them a cause of fear and surprise and a waste place for ever.

• World English Bible (2000)

  behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Yahweh, and [I will send] to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  So I, the LORD, affirm that I will send for all the peoples of the north and my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and all the nations that surround it. I will utterly destroy this land, its inhabitants, and all the nations that surround it and make them everlasting ruins. I will make them objects of horror and hissing scorn.

Referenced Verses

• Jer 1:15 : 15 For behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the LORD; and they shall come, and every one shall set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls all around, and against all the cities of Judah.
• Jer 18:16 : 16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; everyone that passes by shall be astonished, and shake his head.
• Isa 13:3 : 3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for my anger, even those who rejoice in my exaltation.
• Jer 43:10 : 10 And say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hidden; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.
• Ezek 29:18-20 : 18 Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was rubbed raw: yet he had no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it: 19 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. 20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor with which he served against it, because they worked for me, says the Lord GOD.
• Isa 44:28-45:1 : 28 Who says of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, You shall be built; and to the temple, Your foundation shall be laid. 1 Thus says the LORD to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the double doors; and the gates shall not be shut.
• 1 Kgs 9:7-8 : 7 Then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, I will cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people: 8 And at this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?
• Prov 21:1 : 1 The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wills.
• Isa 5:26-30 : 26 And he will lift up a banner to the nations from far, and will hiss to them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly: 27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their waists be loosed, nor the strap of their shoes be broken: 28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hooves shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind: 29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yes, they shall roar, and seize the prey, and shall carry it away safely, and none shall deliver it. 30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one looks to the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened by the clouds of the heavens.
• Isa 10:5 : 5 O Assyrian, the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation.
• Isa 39:7 : 7 And of your sons who will descend from you, whom you will beget, they shall take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
• Lev 26:25-46 : 25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when you are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied. 27 And if you will not for all this listen to me, but walk contrary to me; 28 Then I will walk contrary to you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. 29 And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat. 30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. 31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet aromas. 32 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it. 33 And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. 34 Then shall the land enjoy its Sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate, and you are in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths. 35 As long as it lies desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your Sabbaths, when you dwelt upon it. 36 And upon those who are left alive of you I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one flees from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursues. 37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursues: and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 38 And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 39 And those who are left of you shall waste away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they waste away with them. 40 If they shall confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary to me; 41 And that I also have walked contrary to them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity: 42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. 43 The land also shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them: and they shall accept the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes. 44 And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God. 45 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD. 46 These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between Him and the children of Israel on Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
• Deut 28:45-50 : 45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you did not listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you: 46 And they shall be upon you for a sign and for a wonder, and upon your descendants forever. 47 Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; 48 Therefore you shall serve your enemies which the LORD shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he has destroyed you. 49 The LORD shall bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not understand; 50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young:
• Jer 24:9 : 9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their harm, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
• Jer 25:17-26 : 17 Then I took the cup from the LORD'S hand, and made all the nations drink, to whom the LORD had sent me: 18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings, and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse; as it is this day; 19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people; 20 And all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod, 21 Edom, Moab, and the children of Ammon, 22 And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands which are beyond the sea, 23 Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who are in the farthest corners, 24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the desert, 25 And all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes, 26 And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world which are upon the face of the earth; and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
• Jer 27:3-8 : 3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah, king of Judah; 4 And command them to say to their masters, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall you say to your masters; 5 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed right to me. 6 And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field I have given him also to serve him. 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. 8 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish, says the LORD, with the sword, and with famine, and with pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
• Jer 40:2 : 2 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, The LORD your God has pronounced this calamity upon this place.
• Jer 5:15-16 : 15 Behold, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, says the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, neither understand what they say. 16 Their quiver is like an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
• Jer 6:1 : 1 O you children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a signal of fire in Bethhaccerem, for evil appears out of the north, and great destruction.
• Jer 6:22-26 : 22 Thus says the LORD, Behold, a people comes from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the farthest parts of the earth. 23 They shall hold the bow and spear; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against you, O daughter of Zion. 24 We have heard the report, our hands grow weak; anguish has taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in labor. 25 Do not go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side. 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 8:16 : 16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they have come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
• Ezek 30:10-11 : 10 Thus says the Lord GOD; I will make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. 11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, will be brought to destroy the land: they will draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
• Hab 1:6-9 : 6 For indeed I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation which marches through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwellingplaces that are not theirs. 7 They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. 8 Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than evening wolves; their horsemen spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from afar; they fly as the eagle that hastens to eat. 9 They all come for violence; their faces are set like the east wind, and they gather captives like sand. 10 They scoff at kings, and the princes are scorned by them; they deride every stronghold, for they heap up dust and take it.
• Ezek 26:7 : 7 For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and many people.