Verse 18

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bull not accustomed to the yoke: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Jeg har hørt Efraim sørge: ‘Du har tuktet meg, og jeg ble straffet som en ustyrlig kalv. Omvend meg, så jeg kan vende om, for du er Herren min Gud.'

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Jeg har nok hørt Efraim klage seg: Du har tuktet meg, og jeg ble tuket, som en ung okse som ikke er vant til å bære åk; vend meg, og jeg skal bli vendt, for du er Herren min Gud.

• Norsk King James

  Jeg har virkelig hørt Efraim klage slik: Du har straffet meg, og jeg ble straffet, som en okse som ikke er vant til åket: vend meg, og jeg skal bli vendt; for du er Herren min Gud.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Jeg har hørt Efraim klage: Du har tuktet meg, og jeg er tukket som en utemmet kalv; vend meg tilbake, så skal jeg vende om, for du er Herren min Gud.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Jeg har hørt Efraim klage: ‘Du har tuktet meg, og jeg ble tuktet som en unget okse som ikke er vant til å bære åket. Vend meg igjen, så jeg kan omvende meg, for du er Herren min Gud.’

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Jeg har sannelig hørt Efraim klage: Du har irettesatt meg, og jeg ble irettesatt som en utemmet kalv. Vend meg om, og jeg skal bli omvendt; for du er Herren min Gud.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Jeg har virkelig hørt Efraim beklage seg: «Du har straffet meg, og jeg ble straffet som en okse uvant til årene; vend om mot meg, så skal jeg vende om, for du er HERREN, min Gud.»

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

  Jeg har sannelig hørt Efraim klage: Du har irettesatt meg, og jeg ble irettesatt som en utemmet kalv. Vend meg om, og jeg skal bli omvendt; for du er Herren min Gud.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Jeg har hørt Efraim klage: 'Du har tuktet meg, og jeg er blitt tuktet som en uvant kalv. Vend meg om, så skal jeg vende om, for du er Herren min Gud.'

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  I have surely heard Ephraim’s lamenting: 'You disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like an untrained calf. Restore me, and I will return, for you are the LORD my God.'

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Jeg har hørt Efraim klage: Du har tuktet meg som en ustyrlig kalv, og jeg har blitt tukten lydig. La meg vende tilbake, og jeg skal vende tilbake, for du er Herren, min Gud.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Jeg haver tilfulde hørt Ephraim, som beklager sig (ynkeligen), sigende: Du haver tugtet mig, og jeg er tugtet som en Kalv, der ikke var lært; omvend mig, saa bliver jeg omvendt, thi du, Herre, er min Gud.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Jeg har sannelig hørt Efraim klage seg: Du har tuktet meg, og jeg ble tukta, som en kalv som ikke er vant til å bære åk: vend om meg, så skal jeg bli omvendt; for du er Herren min Gud.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Jeg har sannelig hørt Efraim beklage seg selv [slik]: Du har tuktet meg, og jeg ble tukta, som en kalv uvant med åket: vend meg, og jeg skal bli vendt; for du er Herren, min Gud.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Jeg har sannelig hørt Efraim klage: 'Du har refset meg, og jeg er refset som en uvant okse. Vend meg, og jeg skal vende om, for du er Herren, min Gud.'

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Jeg har virkelig hørt Efraim beklage seg: Du har tuktet meg, og jeg ble tuktert, som en kalv uvant med åket: vend meg, og jeg skal bli vendt; for du er Herren min Gud.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Sannelig, Efraims ord med klage har nådd mine ører: Du har gitt meg opplæring, og jeg har blitt tukta som en ung kalv uvant med åket: la meg vende om og komme tilbake, for du er Herren min Gud.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Morouer I herde Ephraim, (that was led awaye captyue) complayne on this maner: O LORDE, thou hast correcte me, and thy chastenynge haue I receaued, as an vntamed calfe. Conuerte thou me, and I shalbe conuerted, for thou art my LORDE God.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  I haue heard Ephraim lamenting thus, Thou hast corrected me, and I was chastised as an vntamed calfe: conuert thou me, and I shalbe conuerted: for thou art the Lord my God.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Moreouer, I hearde Ephraim that was led away captiue complayne on this maner: O Lorde thou hast correct me, & thy chastenyng haue I receaued, as an vntamed calfe, conuert thou me and I shalbe conuerted: for thou art my Lorde God.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus]; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou [art] the LORD my God.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, `Thou hast chastised me, And I am chastised, as a heifer not taught, Turn me back, and I turn back, For thou `art' Jehovah my God.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke] : turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.

• World English Bible (2000)

  I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  I have indeed heard the people of Israel say mournfully,‘We were like a calf untrained to the yoke. You disciplined us and we learned from it. Let us come back to you and we will do so, for you are the LORD our God.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 80:3 : 3 Turn us again, O God, and make your face shine, and we shall be saved.
• Job 5:17 : 17 Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty:
• Lam 5:21 : 21 Turn us back to You, O LORD, and we shall be restored; renew our days as of old.
• Jer 3:21-22 : 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. 22 Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come to you; for you are the LORD our God.
• Jer 31:9 : 9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications I will lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, in which they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
• Rev 3:19 : 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
• Jer 17:14 : 14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
• Luke 15:20 : 20 And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
• Acts 3:26 : 26 To you first, God, having raised up His Son Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
• Ps 80:7 : 7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and make your face shine, and we shall be saved.
• Ps 80:19 : 19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause your face to shine, and we shall be saved.
• Ps 94:12 : 12 Blessed is the man whom you chasten, O LORD, and teach him out of your law;
• Ps 102:19-20 : 19 For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven the LORD viewed the earth, 20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner, to release those appointed to death,
• Ps 119:75 : 75 I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are right, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
• Prov 3:11 : 11 My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD; nor be weary of his correction:
• Prov 26:3 : 3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the fool’s back.
• Prov 29:1 : 1 He who is often reproved and hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
• Isa 1:5 : 5 Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
• Isa 9:13 : 13 For the people do not turn to him who strikes them, nor do they seek the LORD of hosts.
• Isa 51:20 : 20 Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, like a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.
• Isa 53:7 : 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he does not open his mouth.
• Isa 57:15-18 : 15 For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. 16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made. 17 For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry and struck him; I hid myself and was angry, and he went on stubbornly in the way of his heart. 18 I have seen his ways and will heal him; I will lead him also and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
• Isa 63:16 : 16 Doubtless you are our Father, though Abraham is ignorant of us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer; your name is from everlasting.
• Jer 2:30 : 30 In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
• Ps 85:4 : 4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause Your anger toward us to cease.
• Job 33:27-28 : 27 He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned and perverted what was right, and it did not profit me; 28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
• Ps 32:9 : 9 Do not be like the horse or like the mule, which have no understanding, whose mouth must be controlled with bit and bridle, lest they come near you.
• Ps 39:8-9 : 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: do not make me the reproach of the foolish. 9 I was silent, and did not open my mouth, because you did it.
• Phil 2:13 : 13 For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
• Jer 31:6 : 6 For there shall be a day when the watchmen on Mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise, and let us go up to Zion to the LORD our God.
• Jer 3:25 : 25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
• Jer 5:3 : 3 O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
• Hos 4:16 : 16 For Israel is stubborn like a stubborn calf: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large space.
• Hos 5:12-13 : 12 Therefore I will be to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet he could not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
• Hos 5:15-6:2 : 15 I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me earnestly. 1 Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck us, and he will bind us up. 2 After two days he will revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his presence.
• Hos 10:11 : 11 And Ephraim is like a trained heifer that loves to thresh grain; but I put a yoke on her fair neck: I will make Ephraim ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
• Hos 11:8-9 : 8 How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I deliver you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I set you like Zeboim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is kindled together. 9 I will not execute the fierceness of my anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim, for I am God, and not a man; the Holy One among you, and I will not enter the city.
• Hos 14:4-8 : 4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for my anger is turned away from him. 5 I will be as the dew to Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and strike his roots as Lebanon. 6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his fragrance as Lebanon. 7 Those who dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the grain, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon. 8 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do anymore with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green cypress tree. From me your fruit is found.
• Zeph 3:2 : 2 She did not obey the voice; she did not receive correction; she did not trust in the LORD; she did not draw near to her God.
• Mal 4:6 : 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.
• Luke 1:17 : 17 He will go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
• Jas 1:16-18 : 16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. 18 Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
• Jer 50:4-5 : 4 In those days and at that time, says the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go and seek the LORD their God. 5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces toward it, saying, Come and let us join ourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.
• Lam 3:27-30 : 27 It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth. 28 He sits alone and keeps silent, because He has laid it on him. 29 He puts his mouth in the dust, there may yet be hope. 30 He gives his cheek to the one who strikes him; he is filled with reproach.
• Heb 12:5 : 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to children, "My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by him: