Verse 4

The ways of Zion mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Sions veier vitner om sorg, for ingen kommer til festene. Alle hennes porter er øde, prestene sukker, hennes jomfruer er bedrøvde, og hun selv er fylt av bitterhet.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Sions veier sørger fordi ingen kommer til høytidene. Alle hennes porter er øde, prestene sukker, jomfruene er bedrøvede, og hun selv er bitter.

• Norsk King James

  Zions veier sørger, fordi ingen kommer til festene. Alle hennes porter er øde; hennes prester sukker, jomfruene lider, og hun er i dyp bitterhet.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Sions veier sørger fordi ingen kommer til høytidene; alle hennes porter er ødelagt, prestene sukker, jomfruene er bedrøvet, og selv er hun fylt med bitterhet.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Veiene til Sion sørger, for ingen kommer til høytidene lenger. Alle hennes porter er øde, prestene sukker, jomfruene er i sorg, og hun selv er i bitter sorg.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Zions veier sørger, for ingen kommer til de høytidelige festene; alle hennes porter er øde, hennes prester sukker, hennes jomfruer er i sorg, og hun er i bitterhet.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Zions veier sørger, for ingen kommer til de hellige høytidene; alle hennes porter er forlatt, hennes prester sukker, jomfruene lider, og hun er full av bitterhet.

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

  Zions veier sørger, for ingen kommer til de høytidelige festene; alle hennes porter er øde, hennes prester sukker, hennes jomfruer er i sorg, og hun er i bitterhet.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Sions veier sørger fordi ingen kommer til høytidene. Alle portene hennes er øde, prestene hennes sukker, jomfruene er bedrøvet, og hun selv er bitter.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed festivals. All her gates are desolate; her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she is in bitter anguish.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Sions veier sørger, ingen kommer til høytidene hennes. Alle hennes porter er øde, prester sukker, jomfruer er bedrøvet, og selv er hun i bitter nød.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Zions Veie sørge, fordi man ikke kommer til Forsamling; alle dens Porte ere ødelagte, dens Præster sukke; dens Jomfruer ere bedrøvede, og for hende selv (er det) bittert.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desote: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Veiene til Sion sørger, for ingen kommer til de høytidelige festene: alle hennes porter er øde: hennes prester sukker, hennes jomfruer er bedrøvet, og hun er i bitterhet.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Veiene til Sion sørger, for ingen kommer til høytidene; Alle hennes porter er øde, hennes prester sukker: Hennes jomfruer er i nød, og hun selv er i bitterhet.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Veiene til Sion sørger, ingen kommer ved høytider. Alle hennes porter er øde, prestene sukker, jomfruene er i nød, og hun er i bitterhet.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Veiene til Sion sørger, fordi ingen kommer til høytidssamlingen; Alle hennes porter er øde, prestene sukker: Jomfruene er bedrøvet, og hun selv er i bitterhet.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Sions veier er sørgmodige, for ingen kommer til de hellige møtene; alle hennes porter er øde, prestene sukker tungt: hennes jomfruer er foruroliget, og det er bittert for henne.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  The stretes of Sion mourne, because no man commeth more to the solempne feastes: All hir gates are desolate, hir prestes make lamentacion, hir maydens are carefull, and she herself is in greate heuynesse.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  The wayes of Zion lament, because no man commeth to the solemne feastes: all her gates are desolate: her Priests sigh: her virgins are discomfited, and she is in heauinesse.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  The streetes of Sion mourne, because no man cometh no more to the solempne feastes: all her gates are desolate, her priestes make lamentatio, her maydens are carefull, and she her selfe is in great heauinesse.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she [is] in bitterness.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  The ways of Zion are mourning, Without any coming at the appointed time, All her gates are desolate, her priests sigh, Her virgins are afflicted -- and she hath bitterness.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  The ways of Zion are sad, because no one comes to the holy meeting; all her doorways are made waste, her priests are breathing out sorrow: her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.

• World English Bible (2000)

  The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  ד(Dalet) The roads to Zion mourn because no one travels to the festivals. All her city gates are deserted; her priests groan. Her virgins grieve; she is in bitter anguish!

Referenced Verses

• 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.
• Joel 1:8-9 : 8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. 9 The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn. 10 The field is wasted, the land mourns; for the grain is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes. 11 Be ashamed, you farmers; howl, you vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished. 12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languishes; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy has withered away from the sons of men. 13 Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the grain offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.
• Isa 24:4-6 : 4 The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the proud people of the earth do languish. 5 The earth also is defiled under its inhabitants because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell in it are desolate; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
• Jer 10:22 : 22 Behold, the noise of the report is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.
• Jer 14:2 : 2 Judah mourns, and its gates languish; they are in mourning on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.
• Lam 2:6-7 : 6 And He has violently taken away His tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: He has destroyed His places of the assembly: the Lord has caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and has despised in the indignation of His anger the king and the priest. 7 The Lord has cast off His altar, He has abhorred His sanctuary, He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast.
• Lam 2:9-9 : 9 Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the Lord. 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, and keep silence: they have thrown dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. 11 My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
• Lam 2:19-21 : 19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up your hands toward Him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street. 20 Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom You have done this. Shall the women eat their offspring, the children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? 21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword; You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have killed, and not pitied.
• Lam 5:13 : 13 They took the young men to grind, and the children stumbled under the loads of wood.
• Jer 33:10-12 : 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, 11 The voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for His mercy endures forever: and of those who shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return, as at the first, says the LORD. 12 Thus says the LORD of hosts: Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all its cities, there shall be a habitation for shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
• Lam 1:11-12 : 11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider, for I have become vile. 12 Is it nothing to you, all you that pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is done to me, with which the LORD has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
• Lam 1:18-20 : 18 The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men have gone into captivity. 19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders have died in the city, while they sought food to relieve their souls. 20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my heart is troubled; my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.
• Isa 32:9-9 : 9 Rise up, you women who are at ease; hear my voice, you careless daughters; give ear to my speech. 10 In many days and years you shall be troubled, you careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. 11 Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you careless ones: strip yourselves, make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth upon your waists. 12 They shall lament for the breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: 14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the bustle of the city shall be abandoned; the forts and towers shall become dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
• Mic 3:12 : 12 Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.