Verse 9

Therefore do not listen to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon:

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Men hør ikke på deres profeter, spåmenn, drømmetydere, tegnutleggere og trollmenn, som sier til dere: Dere skal ikke tjene kongen av Babylon.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Derfor skal dere ikke høre på deres profeter, heller ikke på deres spåmenn, ikke på deres drømmere, heller ikke på deres trollmenn eller deres tryllekunstnere, som taler til dere og sier: Dere skal ikke tjene kongen av Babylon.

• Norsk King James

  Derfor, hør ikke på deres profeter, eller på deres spåmenn, eller på deres drømmere, eller på deres hekser, eller på deres trollmenn, som taler til dere og sier: Dere skal ikke tjene kongen av Babylon:

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Derfor skal dere ikke lytte til deres profeter, spåmenn, drømmere, åndemanere eller trollmenn som sier til dere: Dere skal ikke tjene Babylons konge.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Og dere skal ikke høre på deres profeter, deres spåmenn, drømmerne, tegntydere og trollmenn som sier til dere: 'Dere skal ikke tjene kongen av Babel.'

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Derfor skal dere ikke høre på deres profeter, spåmenn, drømmetydere, trollmenn eller magikere, som sier til dere: Dere skal ikke tjene kongen av Babylon.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Derfor, hør ikke på profetene, spådomsmennene, drømmene, trollmennene eller magikerne som sier til dere: Dere skal ikke tjene kongen av Babylon.

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

  Derfor skal dere ikke høre på deres profeter, spåmenn, drømmetydere, trollmenn eller magikere, som sier til dere: Dere skal ikke tjene kongen av Babylon.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Men dere, hør ikke på deres profeter, spåmenn, drømmetyderen, tegntydere og trollmenn, som sier til dere: 'Dere skal ikke tjene kongen av Babylon.'

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  So do not listen to your prophets, diviners, dreamers, soothsayers, or sorcerers who say to you, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Og dere, lytt ikke til deres profeter, spåmenn, drømmetydere, tegnbeseglere eller trollmenn som sier til dere: Dere skal ikke tjene kongen av Babylon.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Derfor hører ikke eders Propheter og eders Spaamænd og eders Drømmere og eders Dagvælgere og eders Troldkarle, dem, som tale til eder, sigende: I skulle ikke tjene Kongen af Babel.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Derfor skal dere ikke lytte til deres profeter, heller ikke til deres spåmenn, eller deres drømmere, eller deres trollmenn, eller deres magikere, som sier til dere: Dere skal ikke tjene kongen av Babylon.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Men dere, hør ikke på deres profeter, spåmenn, drømmere, spådomskunstnere eller trollmenn som sier til dere: Dere skal ikke tjene Babylons konge.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Og dere, hør ikke på deres profeter, på deres spåmenn, på deres drømmere, på deres skytydere og på deres trollmenn som sier til dere: Dere skal ikke tjene kongen av Babylon.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Men som for dere, lytt ikke til deres profeter, eller til deres spåmenn, eller til deres drømmer, eller til deres spåkoner, eller til deres trollmenn, som sier til dere: Dere skal ikke tjene kongen av Babylon.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Og dere skal ikke høre på deres profeter eller deres tegnlesere eller drømmetydere eller de som ser inn i fremtiden eller de som bruker hemmelige kunster, som sier til dere: Dere skal ikke bli tjenere for kongen av Babylon.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And therfore, folowe not youre prophetes, soythsayers, expounders of dreames, charmers & witches, which saye vnto you: ye shal not serue the kinge of Babilon.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Therefore heare not your prophets nor your southsayers, nor your dreamers, nor your inchanters, nor your sorcerers, which say vnto you thus, Ye shall not serue the King of Babel.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And therfore folowe not your prophetes, soothsayers, expounders of dreames, charmers, & witches, which say vnto you, Ye shal not serue the kyng of Babylon.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  But as for you, don't you listen to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon:

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  `And ye, ye do not hearken unto your prophets, and unto your diviners, and unto your dreamers, and unto your observers of clouds, and unto your sorcerers who are speaking unto you, saying, Ye do not serve the king of Babylon, --

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But as for you, hearken ye not to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And you are not to give attention to your prophets or your readers of signs or your dreamers or those who see into the future or those who make use of secret arts, who say to you, You will not become servants of the king of Babylon:

• World English Bible (2000)

  But as for you, don't you listen to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon:

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  So do not listen to your prophets or to those who claim to predict the future by divination, by dreams, by consulting the dead, or by practicing magic. They keep telling you,‘You do not need to be subject to the king of Babylon.’

Referenced Verses

• Jer 14:14 : 14 Then the LORD said to me, 'The prophets prophesy lies in My name; I have not sent them, nor commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision and divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart.'
• Isa 8:19 : 19 And when they say to you, Seek those who have familiar spirits, and wizards that whisper and mutter: should not a people seek their God? for the living to the dead?
• Jer 29:8 : 8 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners, who are among you, deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.
• 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.
• Acts 8:11 : 11 And they regarded him, because for a long time he had amazed them with his sorceries.
• Rev 9:21 : 21 And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
• Rev 18:23 : 23 And the light of a lamp shall shine no more at all in you; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in you: for your merchants were the great men of the earth; for by your sorceries were all nations deceived.
• Rev 21:8 : 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and sexually immoral, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
• Rev 22:15 : 15 For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and sexually immoral, and murderers, and idolaters, and whoever loves and makes a lie.
• Mic 3:7 : 7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God.
• Zech 10:2 : 2 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie and told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Therefore they went their way as a flock; they were troubled because there was no shepherd.
• Isa 47:12-14 : 12 Stand now with your enchantments and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth. Perhaps you will be able to profit, perhaps you may prevail. 13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators stand up and save you from these things that shall come upon you. 14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them. They shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame; there shall not be a coal to warm by, nor a fire to sit before.
• Jer 23:16 : 16 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you vain; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
• Jer 23:25 : 25 I have heard what the prophets said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, 'I have dreamed, I have dreamed.'
• Jer 23:32 : 32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams, says the LORD, and who tell them and cause my people to err by their lies and by their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all, says the LORD.
• Jer 27:14-16 : 14 Therefore do not listen to the words of the prophets that speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie to you. 15 For I have not sent them, says the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that you might perish, you, and the prophets that prophesy to you. 16 Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says the LORD; Do not listen to the words of your prophets that prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie to you.
• Exod 7:11 : 11 Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers, now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.
• Deut 18:10-12 : 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12 For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you.
• Deut 18:14 : 14 For these nations, which you shall possess, listened to observers of times, and to diviners: but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do so.
• Josh 13:22 : 22 Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among those who were slain by them.