Verse 16

Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for harm and not for good; and they shall be accomplished that day before you.

Other Translations

  • GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

    Gå og si til Ebed-Melek, nubieren: Så sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, Israels Gud: Se, jeg lar mine ord falle over denne byen til ulykke, ikke til lykke, og de skal skje for dine øyne på den dagen.

  • Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

    Gå og si til Ebed-Melek, kusjitten: Så sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, Israels Gud: Se, jeg vil bryte mine ord over denne byen til ulykke og ikke til gode, og de skal oppfylles for øynene dine på den dagen.

  • Norsk King James

    Gå og tal til Ebed-Melek, etiopieren, og si: Slik sier HERREN, hærskarenes Gud, Israels Gud; Se, jeg vil føre mine ord over denne byen til undergang, og ikke til frelse, og de vil bli oppfylt for deg den dagen.

  • Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

    «Gå og si til Ebed-Melek, kusjitten: Så sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, Israels Gud: Se, jeg vil la mine ord komme over denne byen til det onde, ikke til det gode. De skal skje for dine øyne på den dagen.

  • Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

    "Gå og si til Ebed-Melek, kusjitten: Så sier Herren over hærskarene, Israels Gud: Jeg vil føre mine ord over denne byen for å skade, ikke for godt. Og de skal oppfylles for dine øyne på den dagen.

  • Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

    Gå og tal til Ebedmelek, kusjitten, og si: Så sier Herren over hærskarene, Israels Gud: Se, jeg skal bringe mine ord over denne byen til ondt, og ikke til godt, og de skal gå i oppfyllelse foran deg den dagen.

  • o3-mini KJV Norsk

    «Gå og tal til Ebedmelek, etiopieren, og si: Slik sier Herren over himmelens hær, Israels Gud: Se, jeg vil la mine ord treffe denne byen med skade og ikke med nytte, og de skal oppfylles den dagen foran deg.»

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

    Gå og tal til Ebedmelek, kusjitten, og si: Så sier Herren over hærskarene, Israels Gud: Se, jeg skal bringe mine ord over denne byen til ondt, og ikke til godt, og de skal gå i oppfyllelse foran deg den dagen.

  • Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

    «Gå og si til Ebed-Melek, etioperen: Så sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, Israels Gud: Se, jeg vil la mine ord komme over denne byen til ulykke, ikke til lykke, og de skal bli oppfylt foran dine øyne den dagen.

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    'Go and say to Ebed-Melech the Cushite, This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am about to bring my words against this city for disaster and not for good, and they will happen before your eyes on that day.

  • biblecontext

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  • GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

    Gå og si til Ebed-Melek, en etiopier: ‘Så sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, Israels Gud: Se, jeg skal la mine ord komme over denne byen til ulykke, ikke til lykke. De skal oppfylles foran dine øyne på den dagen.

  • Original Norsk Bibel 1866

    Gak, og du skal sige til Ebed-Melech, den Morian: Saa sagde den Herre Zebaoth, Israels Gud: See, jeg vil lade mine Ord komme over denne Stad til det Onde og ikke til det Gode, og de skulle skee for dit Ansigt paa den samme Dag.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee.

  • KJV 1769 norsk

    Gå og tal til Ebed-Melek, etiopieren, og si: Så sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, Israels Gud: Se, jeg vil føre mine ord over denne byen til ulykke og ikke til noe godt; og de skal bli fullbyrdet foran dine øyne.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Webster

    Gå og tal til Ebed-Melek etioperen, og si: Slik sier Herren, Hærskarenes Gud, Israels Gud: Se, jeg vil føre mine ord over denne byen til ulykke, og ikke til gode; og de skal fullbyrdes for dine øyne på den dagen.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

    'Gå og si til Ebed-Melek fra Kusj: Så sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, Israels Gud: Se, jeg vil la mine ord komme over denne byen til skade, ikke til det gode, og de skal skje i din nærvær på den dagen.

  • Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

    Gå og tal til Ebed-Melek, etioperen, og si: Så sier hærskarenes Herre, Israels Gud: Se, jeg skal la mine ord komme over denne byen til ulykke, og ikke til gode; og de skal bli oppfylt foran deg den dagen.

  • Norsk oversettelse av BBE

    Gå og si til Ebed-Melek, etiopieren: Dette er hva Herren over hærskarene, Israels Gud, har sagt: Se, mine ord vil gå i oppfyllelse angående denne byen, for ulykke og ikke for godt: de vil skje foran dine øyne på den dagen.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Go, and tell Abdemelech the Morian: Thus saieth the LORDE off hoostes ye God off Israel: Beholde, the cruell and sharpe plage that I haue deuysed for this cite, will I brynge vpon them, that thou shalt se it:

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Go and speake to Ebed-melech the blacke More, saying, Thus saith the Lorde of hostes the God of Israel, Beholde, I wil bring my wordes vpon this citie for euill, and not for good, and they shalbe accomplished in that day before thee.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Go and tell Abedmelech the Morian, thus saith the Lorde of hoastes the God of Israel: Beholde, the cruell and sharpe plague that I haue deuised for this citie wyll I bring vpon them, that thou shalt see it:

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be [accomplished] in that day before thee.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Go, and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring my words on this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished before you in that day.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `Go, and thou hast spoken to Ebed-Melech the Cushite, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am bringing in My words unto this city for evil, and not for good, and they have been before thee in that day.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Go, and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished before thee in that day.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Go and say to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, my words will come true for this town, for evil and not for good: they will come about before your eyes on that day.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Go, and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring my words on this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished before you in that day.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    “Go and tell Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian,‘This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, has said,“I will carry out against this city what I promised. It will mean disaster and not good fortune for it. When that disaster happens, you will be there to see it.

Referenced Verses

  • Dan 9:12 : 12 And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great calamity: for under the whole heaven, such as has been done upon Jerusalem has not been done.
  • Zech 1:6 : 6 But My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? Then they returned and said: Just as the LORD of hosts determined to do to us, according to our ways and according to our deeds, so He has dealt with us.
  • Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
  • Josh 23:14-15 : 14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you; all have come to pass for you, and not one thing has failed thereof. 15 Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things have come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you, so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
  • 2 Chr 36:21 : 21 to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate, she kept sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
  • Ps 91:8-9 : 8 Only with your eyes shall you behold and see the reward of the wicked. 9 Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge, even the Most High, your habitation;
  • Ps 92:11 : 11 My eye also shall see my desire on my enemies, and my ears shall hear my desire of the wicked who rise up against me.
  • Jer 5:14 : 14 Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
  • Jer 19:11-12 : 11 And shall say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, until there is no place left to bury. 12 Thus will I do to this place, says the LORD, and to its inhabitants, and even make this city like Tophet:
  • Jer 21:7-9 : 7 And afterward, says the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and those who are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their lives, and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, nor have pity, nor have mercy. 8 And to this people you shall say, Thus says the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death. 9 He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out, and falls to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be as a prize to him. 10 For I have set my face against this city for harm and not for good, says the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
  • 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 26:15 : 15 But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon its inhabitants; for truly the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.
  • Jer 26:18 : 18 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
  • Jer 26:20 : 20 And there was also a man who prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.
  • Jer 32:28-29 : 28 Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it: 29 And the Chaldeans, who fight against this city, shall come and set fire to this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
  • Jer 34:2-3 : 2 Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire. 3 And you shall not escape from his hand, but shall surely be captured and delivered into his hand; and your eyes will see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with you face to face, and you shall go to Babylon.
  • Jer 34:22 : 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 35:17 : 17 Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have called to them, but they have not answered.
  • Jer 36:31 : 31 And I will punish him and his descendants and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the disaster that I have pronounced against them, but they did not listen.
  • Jer 38:7-9 : 7 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon, the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin; 8 Ebedmelech went out of the king's house and spoke to the king, saying, 9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is likely to die from hunger in the place where he is, for there is no more bread in the city. 10 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from here thirty men with you, and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon before he dies. 11 So Ebedmelech took the men with him and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took from there old cast-off clothes and worn-out rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah. 12 And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, Put now these old cast-off clothes and worn-out rags under your armholes beneath the cords. And Jeremiah did so. 13 So they drew Jeremiah up with cords and lifted him out of the dungeon; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
  • Jer 44:28-29 : 28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs. 29 And this shall be a sign to you, says the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil: