Verse 10

To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, and they cannot listen. Behold, the word of the LORD is to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Til hvem skal jeg tale og formane, så de hører? Deres ører er harde; de kan ikke lytte. Herrens ord har blitt en hån for dem, og de gleder seg ikke over det.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Til hvem skal jeg tale og advare, så de hører? Se, deres ører er uomskårne, og de kan ikke høre. Se, Herrens ord er blitt dem til en spott, de har ingen glede i det.

• Norsk King James

  Til hvem skal jeg tale og gi advarsel, så de kan høre? Se, de kan ikke høre; se, HERRENs ord er for dem en krenkelse; de finner ikke glede i det.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Hvem skal jeg tale til og advare, så de hører? Se, deres ører er uomskårne, de kan ikke lytte; se, Herrens ord er til latter for dem, de har ingen glede i det.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Til hvem skal jeg tale og advare, så de hører? Deres ører er uomskårne, de kan ikke høre. Herrens ord har blitt til hån for dem; de finner ingen glede i det.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Til hvem skal jeg tale og advare så de hører? Se, deres ører er uklippet, og de kan ikke høre. Se, Herrens ord er blitt dem til en skam, de har ingen glede i det.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Til hvem skal jeg tale og advare, så de lytter? Se, deres ører er ubeskårne, og de kan ikke høre. HERRENS ord er for dem en forakt, de finner ingen glede i det.

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

  Til hvem skal jeg tale og advare så de hører? Se, deres ører er uklippet, og de kan ikke høre. Se, Herrens ord er blitt dem til en skam, de har ingen glede i det.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Hvem skal jeg tale og advare, så de hører? Se, deres ører er uomskåret, og de kan ikke lytte. Se, Herrens ord har blitt til dem en skam, de vil ikke ha det.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  To whom can I speak and give warning so they will listen? Their ears are closed, and they cannot pay attention. The word of the Lord is offensive to them; they take no pleasure in it.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Til hvem skal jeg tale og advare, for hvem vil høre? Se, deres ører er uomskårne, så de ikke kan høre. Se, Herrens ord er blitt til skam for dem, de har ingen glede i det.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  For hvem skal jeg tale og vidne, at de (dog) vilde høre? see, deres Øren have Forhud, og de kunne ikke give Agt (derpaa); see, Herrens Ord var dem til en Spot, de havde ikke Lyst til det.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Til hvem skal jeg tale og advare, slik at de hører? Se, deres øre er uomskåret, og de kan ikke lytte: se, Herrens ord er for dem en vanære; de har ingen glede i det.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Hvem skal jeg tale til og vitne for, så de kan høre? Se, deres ører er uomskårne, og de kan ikke lytte: Se, Herrens ord er blitt til hån for dem; de har ingen glede i det.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Hvem kan jeg tale til og advare, og de vil høre? Se, deres ører er uomskårne, de er ikke i stand til å lytte. Se, Herrens ord har blitt en hån for dem, de finner ikke glede i det.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Hvem skal jeg tale til og vitne for, så de kan høre? Se, deres øre er lukkede, de kan ikke høre: se, Herrens ord har blitt til en skam for dem; de har ingen glede i det.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Til hvem skal jeg gi ord, og vitne så de kan lytte? Se, deres ører er lukket, og de er ikke i stand til å følge med; Herrens ord har gjort dem til skamme, de har ingen glede i det.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  But vnto whom shal I speake? whom shal I warne, that he maye take hede? Their eares are so vncircumcised, that they maye not heare. Beholde, they take the worde of God but for a scorne, and haue no lust therto.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Vnto whome shall I speake, and admonish that they may heare? beholde, their eares are vncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: beholde, the worde of the Lord is vnto them as a reproche: they haue no delite in it.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  But vnto whom shall I speake? whom shall I warne that he may take heede? Their eares are so vncircumcised, that they may not heare: beholde, they take the worde of God but for a scorne, and haue no lust therto.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear [is] uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can't listen: behold, the word of Yahweh is become to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  To whom do I speak, and testify, and they hear? Lo, their ear `is' uncircumcised, And they are not able to attend. Lo, a word of Jehovah hath been to them for a reproach, They delight not in it.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of Jehovah is become unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  To whom am I to give word, witnessing so that they may take note? see, their ears are stopped, and they are not able to give attention: see, the word of the Lord has been a cause of shame to them, they have no delight in it.

• World English Bible (2000)

  To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can't listen. Behold, the word of Yahweh has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  I answered,“Who would listen if I spoke to them and warned them? Their ears are so closed that they cannot hear! Indeed, the LORD’s message is offensive to them. They do not like it at all.

Referenced Verses

• Acts 7:51 : 51 You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
• Jer 7:26 : 26 Yet they did not listen to me, nor incline their ear, but stiffened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
• Exod 6:12 : 12 And Moses spoke before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not listened to me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?
• Isa 53:1 : 1 Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
• Jer 4:4 : 4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.
• Jer 5:4-5 : 4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they do not know the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God. 5 I will go to the great men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
• Acts 7:60 : 60 And he knelt down and cried with a loud voice, Lord, do not charge them with this sin. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
• Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man:
• Col 1:28 : 28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
• 2 Tim 4:3 : 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, they will gather to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
• Heb 11:7 : 7 By faith Noah, being warned by God of things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household; by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
• Deut 29:4 : 4 Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to understand, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
• 2 Chr 36:15-16 : 15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent warnings to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending them, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. 16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
• Ps 1:2 : 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night.
• Ps 40:8 : 8 I delight to do Your will, O my God: yes, Your law is within my heart.
• Ps 119:16 : 16 I will delight myself in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
• Ps 119:24 : 24 Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.
• Ps 119:35 : 35 Make me walk in the path of Your commandments, for I delight in it.
• Ps 119:70 : 70 Their heart is as fat as grease, but I delight in Your law.
• Ps 119:77 : 77 Let Your tender mercies come to me, that I may live, for Your law is my delight.
• Ps 119:174 : 174 I long for Your salvation, O LORD, and Your law is my delight.
• Isa 6:9-9 : 9 And He said, Go and tell this people, You hear indeed, but do not understand; and you see indeed, but do not perceive. 10 Make the heart of this people dull, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and healed.
• Isa 28:9-9 : 9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. 10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: 11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. 12 To whom he said, This is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. 13 But the word of the LORD was to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
• Isa 42:23-25 : 23 Who among you will give ear to this? who will listen and hear for the time to come? 24 Who gave Jacob for a plunder, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law. 25 Therefore he has poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it set him on fire all around, yet he did not know; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
• Jer 20:8-9 : 8 For since I spoke, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach to me, and a derision, daily. 9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak anymore in his name. But his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with holding back, and I could not stay.
• Ezek 3:18-21 : 18 When I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; and you do not give him warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand. 19 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul. 20 Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand. 21 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous do not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also you have delivered your soul.
• Ezek 33:3 : 3 If when he sees the sword coming upon the land, he blows the trumpet, and warns the people;
• Ezek 33:9 : 9 Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
• Amos 7:10 : 10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.
• Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, O generation of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
• Luke 11:45 : 45 Then one of the lawyers answered and said to him, Teacher, by saying this you reproach us also.
• Luke 20:19 : 19 And the chief priests and the scribes tried to lay hands on him at that very hour; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.
• John 7:7 : 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify of it that its works are evil.
• John 9:40 : 40 And some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these words, and said to him, Are we blind also?