Verse 7

The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the nations is on his way; he has gone forth from his place to make your land desolate; and your cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

Other Translations

  • GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

    En løve har reist seg fra sitt tilhold; en ødelegger av nasjoner har forlatt sitt sted for å gjøre landet ditt øde, og byene dine skal bli liggende øde uten innbyggere.

  • Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

    Løven har steget opp fra sitt kratt, og ødeleggeren av nasjonene er på vei. Han har dratt ut fra sitt sted for å gjøre landet ditt øde, og byene dine skal legges i ruiner uten innbyggere.

  • Norsk King James

    Løven har kommet opp fra sitt skjul, og ødeleggeren av nasjonene er på vei; han er gått ut for å gjøre landet ditt øde, og byene dine skal bli liggende i ruiner, uten beboere.

  • Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

    En løve kommer fra sitt skjul, ødeleggeren av nasjoner er på vei; han har dratt ut fra sitt sted for å gjøre landet ditt til en ørken. Byene dine skal bli ødelagt, ingen skal bo i dem.

  • Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

    En løve stiger opp fra sin kratt, en nasjonens ødelegger er på vei. Han har brutt opp fra sitt oppholdssted for å gjøre landet ditt øde. Byene dine vil bli lagt i ruiner, uten noen innbygger.

  • Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

    Løven er kommet opp fra krattet sitt, og ødeleggeren av folkeslag er på vei; han har forlatt sitt sted for å gjøre landet ditt øde; og byene dine skal bli lagt i ruiner, uten innbygger.

  • o3-mini KJV Norsk

    Løven har brutt frem fra sitt skjul, og hedningens ødelegger er på vei; han har dratt ut for å gjøre ditt land øde, og dine byer skal bli lagt øde, uten én innbygger.

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

    Løven er kommet opp fra krattet sitt, og ødeleggeren av folkeslag er på vei; han har forlatt sitt sted for å gjøre landet ditt øde; og byene dine skal bli lagt i ruiner, uten innbygger.

  • Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

    En løve har komt opp fra sin hule, en nasjoners ødelegger har reist seg, han har gått ut fra sitt sted for å gjøre ditt land til ødeleggelse, dine byer skal bli lagt i ruiner, uten innbygger.

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    A lion has come out of his thicket, a destroyer of nations has set out; he has left his place to turn your land into a waste. Your cities will be ruined, without inhabitants.

  • biblecontext

    { "verseID": "Jeremiah.4.7", "source": "עָלָ֤ה אַרְיֵה֙ מִֽסֻבְּכ֔וֹ וּמַשְׁחִ֣ית גּוֹיִ֔ם נָסַ֖ע יָצָ֣א מִמְּקֹמ֑וֹ לָשׂ֤וּם אַרְצֵךְ֙ לְשַׁמָּ֔ה עָרַ֥יִךְ תִּצֶּ֖ינָה מֵאֵ֥ין יוֹשֵֽׁב׃", "text": "*ʿālāh* *ʾaryēh* from *subbəḵô*, and *mašḥît* *gôyim* *nāsaʿ* *yāṣāʾ* from *məqōmô* to *lāśûm* your *ʾarṣēḵ* to *šammāh*, your *ʿārayiḵ* *tiṣṣeynāh* from *ʾēyn* *yôšēb*", "grammar": { "*ʿālāh*": "qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - has gone up/come up", "*ʾaryēh*": "masculine singular noun - lion", "*subbəḵô*": "masculine singular noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his thicket", "*mašḥît*": "hiphil participle, masculine singular - destroyer/one who destroys", "*gôyim*": "masculine plural noun - nations/gentiles", "*nāsaʿ*": "qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - has journeyed/set out", "*yāṣāʾ*": "qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - has gone out/departed", "*məqōmô*": "masculine singular noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his place", "*lāśûm*": "qal infinitive construct - to make/put", "*ʾarṣēḵ*": "feminine singular noun with 2nd feminine singular suffix - your land", "*šammāh*": "feminine singular noun - desolation/waste", "*ʿārayiḵ*": "feminine plural noun with 2nd feminine singular suffix - your cities", "*tiṣṣeynāh*": "qal imperfect, 3rd feminine plural - they will be ruined", "*ʾēyn*": "construct particle of negation - without", "*yôšēb*": "qal participle, masculine singular - inhabitant/dweller" }, "variants": { "*ʿālāh*": "gone up/come up/ascended", "*ʾaryēh*": "lion", "*subbəḵô*": "his thicket/lair/den", "*mašḥît*": "destroyer/one who destroys/ravager", "*gôyim*": "nations/gentiles/peoples", "*nāsaʿ*": "journeyed/set out/departed", "*yāṣāʾ*": "gone out/departed/left", "*məqōmô*": "his place/location/position", "*lāśûm*": "to make/put/set", "*ʾarṣēḵ*": "your land/territory/country", "*šammāh*": "desolation/waste/horror", "*ʿārayiḵ*": "your cities/towns", "*tiṣṣeynāh*": "will be ruined/laid waste/destroyed", "*yôšēb*": "inhabitant/dweller/resident" } }

  • GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

    En løve har steget opp fra sitt kratt, og en nasjonenes ødelegger har dratt ut. Han har gått ut fra sitt sted for å gjøre ditt land til en ødemark; dine byer blir lagt i ruiner uten innbygger.

  • Original Norsk Bibel 1866

    En Løve opstiger af sin forviklede (Busk), og Hedningernes Fordærver er uddragen, han er udgangen af sit Sted at gjøre dit Land til en Ødelæggelse; dine Stæder skulle ødelægges, at Ingen skal boe (deri).

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

  • KJV 1769 norsk

    Løven er kommet opp fra sitt kratt, og ødeleggeren av folkene er på vei; han har dratt ut fra sitt sted for å gjøre ditt land øde; dine byer skal bli lagt øde, uten innbygger.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Webster

    En løve er gått opp fra sin krattskog, en folkeslagts ødelegger er på vei, han er gått ut fra sin bolig for å gjøre ditt land øde, så dine byer blir lagt øde uten innbyggere.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

    En løve har gått opp fra sin klynge, en ødelegger av nasjoner har reist seg, han har kommet ut fra sitt sted for å gjøre landet ditt til en ørken, dine byer blir lagt øde, uten innbyggere.

  • Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

    En løve stiger opp fra sitt kratt, en ødelegger av nasjoner; han er på vei, han har gått ut fra sin plass for å legge ditt land øde, dine byer skal bli lagt i ruiner, uten innbygger.

  • Norsk oversettelse av BBE

    En løve har gått opp fra sitt skjulested i skogen, en ødelegger av folk er på vei; han har dratt ut fra stedet sitt for å gjøre landet ditt folketomt, så byene deres blir lagt øde, uten innbyggere.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    For the spoyler of the Gentiles is broken vp from his place, as a lyon out of his dene, that he maye make the londe waist, and destroye the cities, so, that no man maye dwell therin.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    The lyon is come vp from his denne, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is departed, and gone forth of his place to lay thy land waste, and thy cities shalbe destroyed without an inhabitant.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For the spoyler of the gentiles is broken vp from his place as a lion out of his denne: that he may make thy lande waste, and destroy the cities, so that no man may dwell therin.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; [and] thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Gone up hath a lion from his thicket, And a destroyer of nations hath journeyed, He hath come forth from his place To make thy land become a desolation, Thy cities are laid waste, without inhabitant.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    A lion has gone up from his secret place in the woods, and one who makes waste the nations is on his way; he has gone out from his place, to make your land unpeopled, so that your towns will be made waste, with no man living in them.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Like a lion that has come up from its lair the one who destroys nations has set out from his home base. He is coming out to lay your land waste. Your cities will become ruins and lie uninhabited.

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 2:15 : 15 The young lions have roared at him, and yelled, and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
  • Jer 5:6 : 6 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: everyone that goes out from there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings have increased.
  • Isa 6:11 : 11 Then I said, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until the cities are laid waste without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land is utterly desolate,
  • Isa 1:7 : 7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
  • Jer 25:9 : 9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
  • Ezek 26:7-9 : 7 For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and many people. 8 He shall slay with the sword your daughters in the field; and he shall build a fort against you, and cast a mound against you, and lift up a shield against you. 9 And he shall set up engines of war against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers. 10 Because of the abundance of his horses, their dust shall cover you; your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he enters into your gates, as men enter a city that has been breached.
  • Jer 33:10 : 10 Thus says the LORD: Again there shall be heard in this place, which you say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,
  • 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 49:19 : 19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swellings of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him flee away from her; and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? For who is like me? And who will appoint me the time? And who is that shepherd who will stand before me?
  • Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven them away: first the king of Assyria has devoured him; and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.
  • Jer 25:38 : 38 He has forsaken His shelter, like a lion; for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of His fierce anger.
  • Isa 5:9 : 9 In my ears said the LORD of hosts, Truly many houses shall be desolate, even great and beautiful, without inhabitant.
  • 2 Kgs 24:1 : 1 In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years; then he turned and rebelled against him.
  • 2 Kgs 25:1 : 1 And it happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and camped against it; and they built siege works all around it.
  • Jer 26:9 : 9 Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
  • 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 50:44 : 44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the dwelling of the strong: but I will suddenly make them run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd who will stand before me?
  • Ezek 21:19-21 : 19 Also, son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both shall come forth out of one land: and choose a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city. 20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified. 21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
  • Ezek 30:10-11 : 10 Thus says the Lord GOD; I will make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. 11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, will be brought to destroy the land: they will draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
  • Dan 5:19 : 19 And because of the majesty that he gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him; whomever he wished, he executed; whomever he wished, he kept alive; whomever he wished, he set up; and whomever he wished, he put down.
  • Dan 7:4 : 4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings. I watched until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand on its feet like a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
  • Jer 9:11 : 11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.