Verse 7

How shall I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

Other Translations

  • GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

    Hvordan kan jeg tilgi deg dette? Dine barn har forlatt meg og sverget ved guder som ikke eksisterer. Jeg mettet dem, men de begikk utroskap og flokket seg i horhusene.

  • Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

    Hvordan kan jeg tilgi deg for dette? Dine barn har forlatt meg, og har sverget ved dem som ikke er guder; når jeg hadde mettet dem, begikk de ekteskapsbrudd, og samlet seg i skjøgernes hus.

  • Norsk King James

    Hvordan kan jeg tilgi deg? Dine barn har forlatt meg og sverget ved dem som ikke er guder: da jeg hadde mettet dem, begikk de hor og samlet seg i flokker i horenes hus.

  • Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

    Hvordan kan jeg tilgi deg for dette? Dine barn har forlatt meg og sverget ved det som ikke er Gud. Da jeg hadde mettet dem, drev de hor og flokket seg i horehus.

  • Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

    Hvordan kan jeg tilgi deg? Dine barn har forlatt meg og sverger ved de som ikke er guder. Jeg har gitt dem alt de trenger, men de begår ekteskapsbrudd og samler seg ved troløse kvinners hus.

  • Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

    Hvordan kan jeg tilgi deg for dette? Dine barn har forlatt meg, og sverget ved dem som ikke er guder: Når jeg hadde mettet dem, begikk de deretter utroskap og samlet seg i flokker i skjøgenes hus.

  • o3-mini KJV Norsk

    Hvordan skal jeg tilgi deg for dette? Dine barn har forlatt meg og sverget ved dem som ikke er guder; da jeg hadde gitt dem rikelig næring, begikk de utukt og samlet seg som hærer i horehuene.

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

    Hvordan kan jeg tilgi deg for dette? Dine barn har forlatt meg, og sverget ved dem som ikke er guder: Når jeg hadde mettet dem, begikk de deretter utroskap og samlet seg i flokker i skjøgenes hus.

  • Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

    Hvordan kan jeg tilgi deg for dette? Dine barn har forlatt meg og sverget ved dem som ikke er guder. Jeg ga dem alt de trengte, men de drev hor og flokket seg i skjøgens hus.

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by false gods. I satisfied them, but they committed adultery and gathered at the houses of prostitutes.

  • biblecontext

    { "verseID": "Jeremiah.5.7", "source": "אֵ֤י לָזֹאת֙ אֶֽסְלַֽח־לָ֔ךְ בָּנַ֣יִךְ עֲזָב֔וּנִי וַיִּשָּׁבְע֖וּ בְּלֹ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים וָאַשְׂבִּ֤עַ אוֹתָם֙ וַיִּנְאָ֔פוּ וּבֵ֥ית זוֹנָ֖ה יִתְגֹּדָֽדוּ׃", "text": "*'ê* for this *'eslaḥ*-to you? Your *bānayik* *'ăzābûnî* and they *wayyiššābə'û* by not *'ĕlōhîm*; and I *wā'aśbîa'* them, and they *wayyinə'āpû*, and house of *zônâ* they *yitgōdādû*.", "grammar": { "*'ê*": "interrogative - how?", "*lāzō't*": "preposition + demonstrative pronoun, feminine singular - for this", "*'eslaḥ*": "imperfect, 1st singular - I will forgive", "*lāk*": "preposition + 2nd feminine singular suffix - to you", "*bānayik*": "noun, masculine plural construct + 2nd feminine singular suffix - your sons/children", "*'ăzābûnî*": "perfect, 3rd plural + 1st singular suffix - they forsook me", "*wa*": "conjunction - and", "*yiššābə'û*": "imperfect, 3rd plural, niphal - they swore", "*bə*": "preposition - by/with", "*lō'*": "negative particle - not", "*'ĕlōhîm*": "noun, masculine plural - God/gods", "*'aśbîa'*": "imperfect, 1st singular, hiphil - I satisfied/filled", "*'ôtām*": "direct object marker + 3rd masculine plural suffix - them", "*yinə'āpû*": "imperfect, 3rd plural, qal - they committed adultery", "*bêt*": "noun, masculine singular construct - house of", "*zônâ*": "participle, feminine singular, qal - prostitute/harlot", "*yitgōdādû*": "imperfect, 3rd plural, hithpael - they gathered themselves" }, "variants": { "*'ê*": "how?/where?", "*'eslaḥ*": "I will forgive/pardon", "*'ăzābûnî*": "they forsook me/abandoned me/left me", "*wayyiššābə'û*": "they swore/took oath", "*wā'aśbîa'*": "I satisfied/filled/made content", "*wayyinə'āpû*": "they committed adultery/were unfaithful", "*zônâ*": "prostitute/harlot", "*yitgōdādû*": "they gathered themselves/crowded together/cut themselves" } }

  • GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

    Hvordan kan jeg tilgi deg for dette? Dine barn har forlatt meg og sverget ved dem som ikke er guder. Jeg har mettet dem, men de begikk ekteskapsbrudd og flokket seg sammen i skjøgens hus.

  • Original Norsk Bibel 1866

    Hvor skulde jeg tilgive dig dette? dine Børn forlode mig og svore ved (det, som) ikke er Gud; der jeg havde mættet dem, da bedreve de Horeri og sloge sig sammen i Troppetal i Horehuset.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

  • KJV 1769 norsk

    Hvordan kan jeg tilgi deg for dette? Dine barn har forlatt meg, og de har sverget ved det som ikke er guder. Da jeg lot dem bli mett, drev de likevel hor og flokket seg sammen i skjøgenes hus.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Webster

    Hvordan kan jeg tilgi deg? Barna dine har forlatt meg og sverget ved dem som ikke er guder. Da jeg ga dem mat, begikk de hor og samlet seg ved skjøgenes hus.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

    Derfor er jeg ikke nådig mot deg, dine sønner har forlatt meg og har mettet seg med det som ikke er Gud. Jeg metter dem, og de begår ekteskapsbrudd, og i en horkvinnes hus samler de seg.

  • Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

    Hvordan kan jeg tilgi deg? Dine barn har forlatt meg og sverget ved dem som ikke er guder. Da jeg hadde mettet dem, drev de hor og samlet seg i flokker ved horehusene.

  • Norsk oversettelse av BBE

    Hvordan er det mulig for deg å få min tilgivelse for dette? deres barn har gitt meg opp, de sverger ved dem som ikke er guder: når jeg har gitt dem mat i overflod, var de utro mot sine koner, og de koste seg i de løse kvinners hus.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Shulde I then for all this haue mercy vpon the? Thy children haue forsaken me, and sworne by them that are no goddes. And albeit they were bounde to me in mariage, yet they fell to aduoutrie, and haunted harlottes houses.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Howe should I spare thee for this? Thy children haue forsaken me, and sworne by them that are no gods: though I fed them to the full, yet they committed adulterie, and assembled them selues by companies in the harlots houses.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Shoulde I then for all this haue mercie vpon thee? Thy children haue forsaken me, and sworne by them that are no gods: and albeit that I fed them to the full, yet they fall to adulterie, and haunt harlottes houses.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by [them that are] no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    How can I pardon you? your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    For this I am not propitious to thee, Thy sons have forsaken Me, And are satisfied by that which is not god, I satisfy them, and they commit adultery, And at the house of a harlot They gather themselves together.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    How can I pardon thee? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots' houses.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    "How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    The LORD asked,“How can I leave you unpunished, Jerusalem? Your people have rejected me and have worshiped gods that are not gods at all. Even though I supplied all their needs, they were like an unfaithful wife to me. They went flocking to the houses of prostitutes.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 32:21 : 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their idols: and I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
  • Josh 23:7 : 7 That you do not come among these nations, those that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause anyone to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves down to them:
  • Gal 4:8 : 8 However, then, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods.
  • Zeph 1:5 : 5 And those that worship the host of heaven on the rooftops; and those that worship and that swear by the LORD, and also swear by Milcom;
  • Jer 2:11 : 11 Has a nation changed their gods, which are not gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
  • Jer 9:2 : 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for travelers; that I might leave my people and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
  • Jer 12:16 : 16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of My people, to swear by My name, 'As the LORD lives,' as they taught My people to swear by Baal, then they shall be established in the midst of My people.
  • Jer 23:10 : 10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourns; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their power is not right.
  • Deut 32:15 : 15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked: you have grown fat, you have grown thick, you are covered with fatness; then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who oppress the laborer in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.
  • Matt 23:37-38 : 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! 38 See, your house is left to you desolate.
  • 1 Cor 6:9 : 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
  • 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 Therefore, concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
  • Jas 4:4 : 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
  • Jas 5:1-5 : 1 Come now, you rich men, weep and wail for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded; and their corrosion shall be a witness against you, and shall consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure for the last days. 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. 5 You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been indulgent; you have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
  • Jer 29:22-23 : 22 And because of them a curse will be used by all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, 'The LORD make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;' 23 Because they have done outrageous things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; indeed I know, and am a witness, says the LORD.
  • Ezek 16:49-50 : 49 Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit.
  • Ezek 22:11 : 11 One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
  • Hos 4:2 : 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
  • Hos 4:13-15 : 13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shade thereof is good. Therefore your daughters shall commit harlotry, and your spouses shall commit adultery. 14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, nor your spouses when they commit adultery, for the men themselves are separated with harlots, and they sacrifice with temple prostitutes. Therefore, the people who do not understand shall fall. 15 Though you, Israel, play the harlot, do not let Judah offend; do not come to Gilgal, nor go up to Bethaven, nor swear, 'As the LORD lives.'
  • Hos 7:4 : 4 They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker, who ceases from stirring after he has kneaded the dough, until it is leavened.
  • Hos 11:8 : 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.
  • Hos 13:6 : 6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore they have forgotten me.
  • Amos 8:14 : 14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Your god, O Dan, lives; and, The way of Beersheba lives; even they shall fall, and never rise again.
  • Jer 13:27 : 27 I have seen your adulteries, and your neighings, the lewdness of your whoredom, and your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! Will you not be made clean? When shall it once be?
  • Jer 2:31 : 31 O generation, behold the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? a land of darkness? why do my people say, We are lords; we will come no more to you?
  • Jer 3:19 : 19 But I said, How shall I put you among the children and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? And I said, You shall call me, My Father; and shall not turn away from me.
  • Ps 50:18 : 18 When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers.
  • Lev 20:10 : 10 And the man that commits adultery with another man's wife, even he that commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
  • Num 25:1-3 : 1 And Israel stayed in Shittim, and the people began to commit immorality with the daughters of Moab. 2 And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods. 3 And Israel joined himself to Baal of Peor, and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.