Verse 2

Lift up your eyes to the high places and see where you have not been violated. On the roads you have sat for them, like an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your whoredoms and your wickedness.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Se opp mot høydene og merk deg stedene der du har vært utro, som en som ser på vakt i ørkenen. Du har gjort landet urent med ditt hor og din ondskap.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Løft øynene mot høydene og se hvor du ikke har blitt ligget med. Ved veiene har du sittet og ventet på dem, som en araber i ørkenen; du har forurenset landet med din utroskap og din ondskap.

• Norsk King James

  Løft opp blikket mot de høye steder og se hvor du ikke har vært utro. På veiene har du søkt dem, som en arabisk mann i ørkenen; og du har forurenset landet med dine utroskap og din ondskap.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Se opp mot de høye steder og legg merke til hvor du ikke er blitt vanæret. Du ventet ved veiene på dem, som en araber i ørkenen, og du har forurenset landet med hor og ondskap.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Løft blikket mot høydene og se: Hvor har du ikke ligget med menn? Ved veiene har du sittet og ventet på dem, som en arabisk i ørkenen, og du har besmittet landet med ditt horeliv og din ondskap.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Løft blikket ditt mot høydene og se hvor du ikke har ligget med noen. På veiene har du sittet og ventet på dem, som en araber i ørkenen; og du har gjort landet urent med din utroskap og din ondskap.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Løft dine øyne mot de høye stedene og se der du ikke har ligget. På veiene har du omgått dem, lik en araber i ørkenen, og du har forurenset landet med dine horerier og din ondskap.

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

  Løft blikket ditt mot høydene og se hvor du ikke har ligget med noen. På veiene har du sittet og ventet på dem, som en araber i ørkenen; og du har gjort landet urent med din utroskap og din ondskap.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Løft dine øyne mot de nakne høydene og se! Hvor har du ikke blitt ligget med? Ved veiene har du sittet og ventet på dem, som en araber i ørkenen. Du har gjort landet urent med dine utroskaper og dine onde gjerninger.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Where have you not been violated? By the roads you sat waiting for lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Løft dine øyne og se på åsene: Hvor har du ikke vært liggende med dem? Ved veikrabbene satt du og ventet på dem som en araber i ørkenen. Du har gjort landets jord uren med din utroskap og din ondskap.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Opløft dine Øine til de høie (Stæder) og see, hvor er du ikke skjændet? du sad ved Veiene for dem, som en Araber i Ørken, og du haver besmittet Landet med dine Horerier og med din Ondskab.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Løft øynene dine mot høydene og se hvor du ikke har ligget med noen. På veiene har du sittet og ventet på dem, som araberen i ørkenen; og du har gjort landet urent med dine horer og din ondskap.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Løft blikket mot de bare høydene, og se; hvor har du ikke ligget med noen? Ved veiene har du sittet og ventet på dem, som en araber i ørkenen; du har forurenset landet med din prostitusjon og din ondskap.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Løft blikket mot høydene og se, hvor har du ikke blitt ligget med? Ved veikanten har du ventet som en araber i ødemarken, og du har forurenset landet med ditt horeliv og din ondskap.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Løft dine øyne mot de nakne høyder, og se; hvor har du ikke ligget med dem? Ved veiene har du sittet og ventet på dem, som en araber i ørkenen; og du har forurenset landet med ditt hor og din ondskap.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Løft blikket opp til de åpne høydene, og se: Hvor har du ikke blitt tatt av dine elskere? Du har sittet ved veikanten og ventet på dem, som en araber i ørkenen; du har gjort landet urent med din løsaktighet og din onde adferd.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Lift vp thine eyes on euery syde, and loke, yf thou be not defyled. Thou hast waited for them in the stretes, and as a murtherer in the wildernesse. Thorow thy whordome and shamefull blasphemies, is the londe defyled.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Lift vp thine eyes vnto the hie places, and beholde, where thou hast not plaied the harlot: thou hast sit waiting for them in the waies, as the Arabian in the wildernesse: and thou hast polluted the lande with thy whoredomes, and with thy malice.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Lift vp thine eyes to the hygh places, and loke where thou hast not ben defiled: Thou hast wayted for them in the streetes, and as a murtherer in the wildernesse, through thy whoredome and shamefull blasphemies is the lande defiled.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see; where have you not been lain with? By the ways have you sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Lift thine eyes to the high places, and see, Where hast thou not been lain with? On the ways thou hast sat for them, As an Arab in a wilderness, And thou defilest the land, By thy fornications, and by thy wickedness.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.

• World English Bible (2000)

  "Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat for them by the ways, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  “Look up at the hilltops and consider this. Where have you not been ravished? You waited for those gods like a thief lying in wait in the wilderness. You defiled the land by your wicked prostitution to other gods.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 38:14 : 14 So she took off her widow’s garments, covered herself with a veil, wrapped herself, and sat by the roadside in an open place, which is on the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife.
• Jer 2:7 : 7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
• Ezek 16:24-25 : 24 That you have also built yourself an eminent place, and have made yourself a high place in every street. 25 You have built your high place at every head of the way, and have made your beauty to be abhorred, and have opened your feet to everyone that passed by, and multiplied your whoredoms.
• Jer 2:20 : 20 For from of old I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree you wandered, playing the harlot.
• Deut 12:2 : 2 You shall completely destroy all the places where the nations you are dispossessing served their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree:
• Jer 3:1 : 1 They say, If a man divorces his wife, and she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, shall he return to her again? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, says the LORD.
• Jer 3:9 : 9 And it came to pass through the frivolity of her whoredom, that she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
• Jer 3:21 : 21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
• Jer 7:29 : 29 Cut off your hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
• Ezek 8:4-6 : 4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw on the plain. 5 Then he said to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. 6 He said furthermore to me, Son of man, do you see what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel commits here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn yet again, and you shall see greater abominations.
• Ezek 16:16 : 16 And of your garments you took, and decked your high places with different colors, and played the harlot thereupon; such things shall not come, nor shall it be so.
• 1 Kgs 11:3 : 3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
• 2 Kgs 23:13 : 13 The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were to the right of the mount of Corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites, the king defiled.
• Prov 7:11 : 11 She is loud and stubborn; her feet do not stay at home:
• Prov 23:28 : 28 She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men.
• Jer 2:23 : 23 How can you say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after Baalim? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: you are a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
• Ezek 20:28 : 28 For when I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provoking of their offering: there also they made their sweet savor, and poured out there their drink offerings.
• Luke 16:23 : 23 And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.