Verse 37

Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Babylon skal bli til hauger, en bolig for sjakaler, en forskrekkelse og en hån, uten noen som bor der.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Og Babylon skal bli til hauger, en boligsted for drager, en forferdelse, og en hissing, uten en innbygger.

• Norsk King James

  Og Babylon skal bli til haug, et boligsted for drager, en forferdelse og en hissing, uten innbygger.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Babel skal bli til steinhauger, en bolig for drager, en skrekk og en hissing, ingen skal bo der.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Babylon skal bli til ruiner, et bosted for sjakaler, en forferdelse og hyling, uten innbyggere.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Og Babylon skal bli til hauger, et tilholdssted for sjakaler, en forferdelse, en slett, uten innbyggere.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Og Babylon skal bli til hop, et tilholdssted for drager, et under og et hvesende mysterium, uten en eneste innbygger.

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

  Og Babylon skal bli til hauger, et tilholdssted for sjakaler, en forferdelse, en slett, uten innbyggere.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Babel skal bli til hauger, en bolig for sjakaler, til et sted fylt med forferdelse og hissing, uten noen som bor der.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt for jackals, a horror and an object of scorn, without inhabitant.

• biblecontext

  { "verseID": "Jeremiah.51.37", "source": "וְהָיְתָה֩ בָבֶ֨ל ׀ לְגַלִּ֧ים ׀ מְעוֹן־תַּנִּ֛ים שַׁמָּ֥ה וּשְׁרֵקָ֖ה מֵאֵ֥ין יוֹשֵֽׁב", "text": "And-*hāyətāh* *Bābel* to-*gallîm* *məʿôn*-*tannîm* *šammāh* and-*šərēqāh* from-*ʾên* *yôšēb*", "grammar": { "*hāyətāh*": "verb, Qal perfect, 3rd singular feminine - she will become/she will be", "*Bābel*": "proper noun - Babylon", "*gallîm*": "noun, masculine plural - heaps/ruins", "*məʿôn*": "noun, masculine singular construct - dwelling place of", "*tannîm*": "noun, masculine plural - jackals/dragons", "*šammāh*": "noun, feminine singular - horror/astonishment", "*šərēqāh*": "noun, feminine singular - hissing/derision", "*ʾên*": "particle of negation - without/there is not", "*yôšēb*": "participle, Qal masculine singular - inhabitant/dweller" }, "variants": { "*gallîm*": "heaps/ruins/piles", "*məʿôn*": "dwelling place/habitation/den", "*tannîm*": "jackals/dragons/serpents", "*šammāh*": "horror/astonishment/desolation", "*šərēqāh*": "hissing/derision/scorn" } }

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Babel skal bli til en haug av ruiner, et tilholdssted for sjakaler, til en skrekk og en spott, uten en innbygger.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Og Babel skal blive til Steenhobe, Dragers Bolig, Forskrækkelse og Hvidsel, at Ingen skal boe (der).

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Og Babylon skal bli til hauger, et bosted for drager, en forferdelse og en illevarslende piping, uten noen innbygger.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Babylon skal bli til hauger, en boplass for sjakaler, en forferdelse, og en hån, uten noen innbygger.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Babylon skal bli til hauger, et tilholdssted for drager, en forferdelse, og en hån uten innbyggere.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Og Babel skal bli til hauger, en boplass for sjakaler, en skrekk og en hån, uten innbyggere.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Og Babylon vil bli en haug av knuste murer, en hvilested for pytonslanger, en årsak til undring og forundring, uten en levende mann i den.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Babilon shal become an heape of stones, a dwellinge place for dragons, a fearfulnes & wondringe, because no man dwelleth there.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And Babel shall be as heapes, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, & an hissing, without an inhabitant.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Babylon shall become an heape of stones, a dwellyng place for dragons, a fearefulnesse and wonderyng, and no man shall dwell there.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And Babylon hath been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, An astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And Babylon will become a mass of broken walls, a hole for jackals, a cause of wonder and surprise, without a living man in it.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Babylon will become a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. It will become an object of horror and of hissing scorn, a place where no one lives.

Referenced Verses

• Rev 18:2 : 2 And he cried out mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become the dwelling of demons, and the prison of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
• Jer 18:16 : 16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; everyone that passes by shall be astonished, and shake his head.
• 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.
• Jer 25:12 : 12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, says the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
• Jer 25:18 : 18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings, and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
• Jer 29:18 : 18 And I will pursue them with the sword, famine, and pestilence, and will deliver them to be moved to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I have driven them.
• Jer 50:12-13 : 12 Your mother shall be greatly ashamed; she that bore you shall be confounded: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. 13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be utterly desolate: everyone who passes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
• Jer 50:23-26 : 23 How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken! how Babylon has become a desolation among the nations! 24 I have set a trap for you, and you are also caught, O Babylon, and you were not aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have fought against the LORD. 25 The LORD has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. 26 Come against her from the furthest border, open her storehouses: pile her up as heaps, and utterly destroy her: let nothing of her be left.
• Jer 50:38-40 : 38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of carved images, and they are mad upon their idols. 39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be lived in from generation to generation. 40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, says the LORD; so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man live there.
• Jer 51:25-26 : 25 Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, says the LORD, which destroys all the earth; and I will stretch out My hand upon you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain. 26 They shall not take from you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate forever, says the LORD.
• Jer 51:29 : 29 And the land shall tremble and be in sorrow; for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
• Lam 2:15-16 : 15 All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and shake their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? 16 All your enemies have opened their mouth against you: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly, this is the day we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
• Mic 6:16 : 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and the inhabitants a hissing; therefore you shall bear the reproach of My people.
• Zeph 2:15 : 15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me: how has she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! Everyone that passes by her shall hiss, and shake his hand.
• Jer 19:8 : 8 And I will make this city desolate, and an object of scorn; everyone who passes by it shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
• Rev 18:21-23 : 21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. 22 And the sound of harpists, and musicians, and flutists, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in you; and no craftsman, of any craft, shall be found any more in you; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in you; 23 And the light of a lamp shall shine no more at all in you; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in you: for your merchants were the great men of the earth; for by your sorceries were all nations deceived.
• 2 Chr 29:8 : 8 Therefore, the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as you see with your eyes.
• Isa 13:19-22 : 19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' excellency, will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 20 It will never be inhabited, nor will it be dwelt in from generation to generation: nor will the Arabian pitch tent there; nor will the shepherds make their fold there. 21 But wild beasts of the desert will lie there; and their houses will be full of doleful creatures; and owls will dwell there, and satyrs will dance there. 22 And the wild beasts of the islands will cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.
• Isa 14:23 : 23 I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the LORD of hosts.
• Isa 34:8-9 : 8 For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompense for the controversy of Zion. 9 And its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch. 10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; its smoke shall ascend forever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever. 11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl and the raven shall dwell in it: and He shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. 12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all its princes shall be nothing. 13 And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and brambles in its fortresses: and it shall be a habitation for dragons, and a court for owls. 14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. 15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate. 16 Seek out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall lack her mate: for my mouth has commanded, and His Spirit has gathered them. 17 And He has cast the lot for them, and His hand has divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it forever, from generation to generation they shall dwell therein.