Verse 13

For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  For fra den minste til den største av dem er de alle ivrige etter urimelig vinning; fra profet til prest praktiserer de alle bedrageri.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  For fra den minste av dem til den største, er alle griske; og fra profet til prest, bedrar alle.

• Norsk King James

  For fra den minste av dem til den største, er alle grådige; fra profeten til presten, handler alle falskt.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Fra minst til størst av dem er de grådige, fra profet til prest handler de alle svikefullt.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  For fra den minste til den største, søker alle urett vinning. Fra profeten til presten, alle utfører bedrageri.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  For fra den minste til den største er alle grådige; fra profeten til presten er alle uredelige.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  For fra den minste til den største blant dem er alle preget av grådighet, og fra profeten til presten opptrer alle uærlig.

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

  For fra den minste til den største er alle grådige; fra profeten til presten er alle uredelige.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Fra deres minste til deres største er alle grådige; fra profet til prest bedrar alle.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  For from the least to the greatest, all are greedy for unjust gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  For fra deres minste til deres største tar alle for seg urettmessige gevinster; fra profet til prest driver alle med svik.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Thi Enhver er saare gjerrig, fra den Mindste af dem indtil den Største af dem, og fra Prophet og indtil Præst bedrive de allesammen Løgn.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  For fra den minste av dem til den største gir de seg hen til begjærlighet; og fra profet til prest, alle farer de med løgn.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  For fra den minste til den største, hver og en er drevet av grådighet; og fra profet til prest handler de uærlig.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Fra den minste til den største av dem er alle ute etter urettferdig vinning, fra profet til prest, alle handler falskt.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Fra den minste til den største av dem er alle gitt til griskhet; og fra profeten til presten farer alle med løgn.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  For fra den minste til den største er alle opptatt av å tjene penger; fra profeten til presten, alle driver med bedrag.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For from the leest vnto the most, they hange all vpon covetousnes: and from the prophet vnto the prest, they go all aboute with falsede and lyes.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For from the least of them, euen vnto the greatest of them, euery one is giuen vnto couetousnesse, and from the Prophet euen vnto the Priest, they all deale falsely.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For from the least to the most they hang all vpon couetousnesse: and from the prophete vnto the priest, they go about falshood and lyes.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one [is] given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For from the least of them even to the greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  For from their least unto their greatest, Every one is gaining dishonest gain, And from prophet even unto priest, Every one is dealing falsely,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.

• World English Bible (2000)

  "For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  “That is because, from the least important to the most important of them, all of them are greedy for dishonest gain. Prophets and priests alike, all of them practice deceit.

Referenced Verses

• Jer 23:11 : 11 For both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness, says the LORD.
• Jer 8:10 : 10 Therefore, I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall inherit them: for everyone from the least to the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.
• Mic 3:11 : 11 The leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.
• Zeph 3:3-4 : 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they do not gnaw the bones until the morning. 4 Her prophets are light and treacherous people: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
• Jer 14:18 : 18 If I go out to the field, then behold, those slain with the sword; and if I enter the city, then behold, those sick from famine! Yes, both prophet and priest roam about in a land they do not know.
• Jer 22:17 : 17 But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.
• Ezek 22:25-28 : 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in its midst, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in its midst. 26 Her priests have violated My law, and have profaned My holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and unholy, neither have they shown difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. 27 Her princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. 28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord GOD, when the LORD has not spoken.
• Isa 57:17 : 17 For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry and struck him; I hid myself and was angry, and he went on stubbornly in the way of his heart.
• Mic 3:2-3 : 2 Who hate good and love evil; who strip their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, like meat for the pot, and like flesh within the cauldron.
• Mic 3:5 : 5 Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who make my people err, who bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that puts not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
• Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end thereof?
• Jer 2:8 : 8 The priests did not say, Where is the LORD? and those who handle the law did not know me: the shepherds also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
• Jer 2:26 : 26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,
• Isa 28:7 : 7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
• Isa 56:9-9 : 9 All you beasts of the field, come to devour, yes, all you beasts in the forest. 10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. 11 Yes, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his territory. 12 Come, they say, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
• Jer 23:14-15 : 14 I have also seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They also strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none returns from his wickedness. They are all to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants of it as Gomorrah. 15 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem profaneness has gone forth into all the land.
• Jer 26:7-8 : 7 So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD. 8 Now it happened, when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, You shall surely die.
• Jer 32:32 : 32 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
• Lam 4:13 : 13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the just in her midst,
• Ezek 22:12 : 12 In you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken usury and increase, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me, says the Lord GOD.
• Ezek 33:31 : 31 And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their covetousness.
• Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it because it is in the power of their hand. 2 They covet fields and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away; so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
• Luke 16:14 : 14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they ridiculed him.
• 1 Tim 3:3 : 3 Not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy for dishonest gain; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
• 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And through covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; their judgment is long overdue, and their destruction does not slumber.
• 2 Pet 2:14-15 : 14 Having eyes full of adultery and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices and are accursed children. 15 They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;