Verse 17

Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Så sier Herren, Allhærs Gud: Se, jeg sender sverd, sult og pest mot dem, og jeg vil gjøre dem lik råtne fikener som ikke kan spises, de er så dårlige.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Så sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud: Se, jeg vil sende sverdet, hungersnøden og pesten mot dem, og jeg vil gjøre dem lik dårlige fikener som ikke kan spises, fordi de er så dårlige.

• Norsk King James

  Slik sier HERREN hærskarene; se, jeg vil sende mot dem sverd, hungersnød og pest, og jeg vil gjøre dem til dårlige fiken, som ikke kan spises, fordi de er så onde.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  så sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud: Se, jeg sender sverdet, hungersnøden og pesten mot dem, og jeg vil gjøre dem som dårlige fiken som ikke kan spises, fordi de er så dårlige.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Så sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud: Se, jeg sender over dem sverdet, hungeren og pesten, og jeg vil gjøre dem som de dårlige fiken, som ikke kan spises på grunn av deres elendighet.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Så sier Herren over hærskarene: Se, jeg vil sende sverdet, hungersnøden og pesten mot dem, og gjøre dem som onde fikener som ikke kan spises, så dårlige er de.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Slik sier Herren over himmelens hær: Se, jeg vil sende over dem sverd, hungersnød og pest, og gjøre dem til uspiselige fiken, så onde at de ikke kan spises.

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

  Så sier Herren over hærskarene: Se, jeg vil sende sverdet, hungersnøden og pesten mot dem, og gjøre dem som onde fikener som ikke kan spises, så dårlige er de.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Så sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud: Se, jeg sender sverdet, hungersnøden og pest over dem. Jeg gjør dem som råtne fikener som ikke kan spises, så dårlige er de.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  this is what the LORD of Armies says: 'I am about to send against them the sword, famine, and plague, and I will make them like rotten figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten.'

• biblecontext

  { "verseID": "Jeremiah.29.17", "source": "כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת הִנְנִי֙ מְשַׁלֵּ֣חַ בָּ֔ם אֶת־הַחֶ֖רֶב אֶת־הָרָעָ֣ב וְאֶת־הַדָּ֑בֶר וְנָתַתִּ֣י אוֹתָ֗ם כַּתְּאֵנִים֙ הַשֹּׁ֣עָרִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־תֵאָכַ֖לְנָה מֵרֹֽעַ׃", "text": "*Kōh* *ʾāmar* *YHWH* *ṣəbāʾôt* *hinənî* *məšallēaḥ* *bām* *ʾet*-*ha-ḥereb* *ʾet*-*hā-rāʿāb* *wə-ʾet*-*ha-dāber* *wə-nātattî* *ʾôtām* *ka-təʾēnîm* *ha-šōʿārîm* *ʾăšer* *lōʾ*-*tēʾākalnâ* *mē-rōaʿ*", "grammar": { "*Kōh*": "adverb - thus/so", "*ʾāmar*": "perfect, 3rd masculine singular - said/spoke", "*YHWH*": "proper noun - LORD/Yahweh", "*ṣəbāʾôt*": "noun, feminine plural construct - of hosts/armies", "*hinənî*": "interjection + 1st person singular suffix - behold me/here I am", "*məšallēaḥ*": "participle, masculine singular, Piel - sending/letting loose", "*bām*": "preposition + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - in/against them", "*ʾet*": "direct object marker", "*ha-ḥereb*": "definite article + noun, feminine singular - the sword", "*hā-rāʿāb*": "definite article + noun, masculine singular - the famine/hunger", "*ha-dāber*": "definite article + noun, masculine singular - the pestilence/plague", "*wə-nātattî*": "conjunction + perfect, 1st person singular - and I will give/make", "*ʾôtām*": "direct object marker + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - them", "*ka-təʾēnîm*": "preposition + noun, feminine plural - like/as figs", "*ha-šōʿārîm*": "definite article + participle, masculine plural, Pual - the vile/horrible ones", "*ʾăšer*": "relative pronoun - which/that", "*lōʾ*": "negative particle - not", "*tēʾākalnâ*": "imperfect, 3rd feminine plural, Niphal - they are eaten", "*mē-rōaʿ*": "preposition + noun, masculine singular - from badness/evil" }, "variants": { "*ṣəbāʾôt*": "hosts/armies/multitudes", "*məšallēaḥ*": "sending/dispatching/releasing", "*ḥereb*": "sword/war/violence", "*rāʿāb*": "famine/hunger/starvation", "*dāber*": "pestilence/plague/disease", "*šōʿārîm*": "vile/horrible/rotten/detestable", "*rōaʿ*": "badness/wickedness/evil/poor quality" } }

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  så sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud: Se, jeg sender sverdet, hungersnøden og pesten mot dem, og jeg vil gjøre dem lik råtne fiken, som ikke kan spises fordi de er så dårlige.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  (ja) saaledes siger den Herre Zebaoth: See, jeg sender paa dem Sværdet, Hungeren og Pestilentsen, og jeg vil gjøre dem som de slette Figener, som ikke kunne ædes, fordi de ere onde.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Dette sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud: Se, jeg vil sende sverdet, hungersnøden og pesten mot dem, og gjøre dem som råtne fikener, som ikke kan spises på grunn av onde.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  så sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud: Se, jeg sender sverd, hungersnød og pest mot dem, og vil gjøre dem som ubrukelige fikener, så dårlige at de ikke kan spises.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  så sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud: Se, jeg sender sverdet, hungersnøden og pesten mot dem, og jeg vil gjøre dem som dårlige fikener som ikke kan spises på grunn av sin dårlighet.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Slik sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud: Se, jeg vil la sverdet, hungeren og pesten komme over dem, og jeg vil gjøre dem til verdiløse fikener som ikke kan spises fordi de er så dårlige.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Så sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud: Se, jeg vil sende sverd, hungersnød og pest over dem, og jeg vil gjøre dem som dårlige fikener som ikke kan spises fordi de er så dårlige.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Thus (I saye) speaketh the LORDE of hoostes: Beholde, I wil sende a swearde, honger & pestilence vpon them, & wil make them like vntymely fyges, that maye not be eate for bytternes.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Euen thus sayth the Lorde of hostes, Beholde, I will sende vpon them the sworde, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figges, that cannot bee eaten, they are so naughtie.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Thus I say speaketh the Lorde of hoastes, Beholde I wyll sende a sworde, hunger, and pestilence vpon them, and wyll make them lyke vntymely figges that may not be eaten for bitternesse:

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  thus says Yahweh of Hosts; Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that can't be eaten, they are so bad.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Lo, I am sending among them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and I have given them up as figs that `are' vile, that are not eaten for badness.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  thus saith Jehovah of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, I will send on them the sword and need of food and disease, and will make them like bad figs, which are of no use for food, they are so bad.

• World English Bible (2000)

  thus says Yahweh of Armies; Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that can't be eaten, they are so bad.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  The LORD of Heaven’s Armies says,‘I will bring war, starvation, and disease on them. I will treat them like figs that are so rotten they cannot be eaten.

Referenced Verses

• Jer 24:8-9 : 8 And as for the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad; surely thus says the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the rest of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt: 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. 10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they are consumed from the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.
• Jer 29:18 : 18 And I will pursue them with the sword, famine, and pestilence, and will deliver them to be moved to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I have driven them.
• Jer 34:17-22 : 17 Therefore thus says the LORD: You have not listened to me in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbor; behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, says the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 18 And I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts: 19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf; 20 I will give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the sky, and to the beasts of the earth. 21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes I will give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which have gone up from you. 22 Behold, I will command, says the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.
• Jer 43:11 : 11 And when he comes, he shall strike the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword.
• Jer 52:6 : 6 And in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
• Ezek 5:12-17 : 12 A third part of you shall die with pestilence, and with famine they shall be consumed in your midst: and a third part shall fall by the sword around you; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them. 13 Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal when I have accomplished my fury in them. 14 Moreover I will make you a waste, and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by. 15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment to the nations that are around you, when I shall execute judgments in you in anger and in fury and in fierce rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it. 16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread: 17 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the sword upon you. I the LORD have spoken it.
• Ezek 14:12-21 : 12 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, 13 Son of man, when the land sins against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out my hand upon it and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it; 14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord GOD. 15 If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, so that it is desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts: 16 Though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they alone shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate. 17 Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say, Sword, pass through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it: 18 Though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves. 19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast: 20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall only deliver their own souls by their righteousness. 21 For thus says the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four severe judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the wild beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
• Luke 21:11 : 11 And great earthquakes shall be in various places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
• Luke 21:23 : 23 But woe to those who are with child and to those who give suck in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
• Jer 27:8 : 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 15:2-3 : 2 And it shall come to pass, if they say to you, Where shall we go forth? then you shall tell them, Thus says the LORD; Those for death, to death; and those for the sword, to the sword; and those for the famine, to the famine; and those for the captivity, to the captivity. 3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, says the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
• Jer 24:1-3 : 1 The LORD showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. 2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. 3 Then the LORD said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.