Verse 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?

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Alle som går forbi slår i hendene over deg, de plystrer og rister på hodet over datteren Jerusalem. 'Er dette byen som ble kalt skjønnhetens fullkommenhet, en glede for hele jorden?' Sela.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Alle de som går forbi, klapper i hendene over deg; de plystrer og rister på hodet over Jerusalems datter, sier de: "Er dette byen som de kalte for fullkommen skjønnhet, gleden for hele verden?"

• Norsk King James

  Alle som går forbi klapper sine hender mot deg; de hvesser og rister hodet mot Sion, og sier: Er dette byen som menn kaller skjønnhetes fullkomne, hele jordas glede?

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Alle som gikk forbi veien klappet av glede, de plystret og ristet hodet over Jerusalems datter: Er dette byen man kalte fullkomment skjønn, all landets glede?

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Alle som går forbi, klapper i hendene over deg. De hyler og rister på hodet over datteren Jerusalem. Er dette byen som ble kalt fullkommen skjønnhet, hele jordens glede?

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Alle som går forbi klapper i hendene mot deg; de suser og rister på hodet mot datteren av Jerusalem, og sier, Er dette byen som kalles Skjønnhetens fullkommenhet, hele verdens glede?

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Alle forbipasserende klapper i hendene for deg; de hvisker og rister på hodet til Jerusalems datter og spør: «Er dette byen som folk kaller skjønnhetens fullkommenhet, og hele jordens fryd?»

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

  Alle som går forbi klapper i hendene mot deg; de suser og rister på hodet mot datteren av Jerusalem, og sier, Er dette byen som kalles Skjønnhetens fullkommenhet, hele verdens glede?

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Alle som går forbi slår hendene sammen over deg. De plystrer og rister på hodet over Jerusalem og sier: Er dette byen som ble kalt skjønnhetens fullkommenhet, hele jordens glede?

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, 'Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?'

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Alle som går forbi klapper i hendene over deg; de spotter og rister på hodet over datteren av Jerusalem: 'Er dette byen som ble kalt fullkommen skjønnhet, hele jordens glede?' Sela.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  De klappede over dig med Hænderne, Alle, som gik forbi ad Veien, de hvidslede og rystede deres Hoved over Jerusalems Datter: Mon denne være den Stad, hvilken man sagde at være heel deilig, alt Landets Glæde?

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  All that pass by cp their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Alle som går forbi, klapper hånden mot deg, de spotter og rister på hodet mot Jerusalems datter: Er dette byen som menn kaller skjønnhetens fullkommenhet, hele jordens glede?

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Alle som går forbi klapper i hendene mot deg; de hveser og rister på hodet mot Jerusalems datter og sier: Er dette byen som menneskene kalte Skjønnhetens fullkommenhet, hele jordens glede?

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Alle som går forbi, klapper i hendene over deg, de håner og ryster på hodet over datteren av Jerusalem: 'Er dette byen de sa: fullkommenhetens skjønnhet, en glede for hele landet?'

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Alle som går forbi, klapper i hendene mot deg; de freser og rister på hodet mot Jerusalems datter og sier: Er dette byen som menn kalte fullkommenhet av skjønnhet, hele jordens glede?

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Alle som går forbi, klapper i hendene mot deg; de hveser og rister på hodet mot Jerusalems datter og sier: Er dette byen som var kronen på all skjønnhet, all jordens glede?

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  All they that go by the, clappe their hondes at the: hissinge and wagginge their heades vpon the doughter Ierusalem, and saye: is this the cite that men call so fayre, wherin the whole londe reioyseth?

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  All that passe by the way, clap their hands at thee: they hisse and wagge their head vpon the daughter Ierusalem, saying, Is this the citie that men call, The perfection of beautie, and the ioye of the whole earth?

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  All they that go by thee, clappe their handes at thee, hissing and wagging their heades vpon the daughter Hierusalem and say Is this the citie that men call so faire, wherein the whole lande reioyceth?

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  All that pass by clap [their] hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying, Is] this the city that [men] call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  All that pass by clap their hands at you; They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Clapped hands at thee have all passing by the way, They have hissed -- and they shake the head At the daughter of Jerusalem: `Is this the city of which they said: The perfection of beauty, a joy to all the land?'

• American Standard Version (1901)

  All that pass by clap their hands at thee; They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?

• World English Bible (2000)

  All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  ס(Samek) All who passed by on the road clapped their hands to mock you. They sneered and shook their heads at Daughter Jerusalem.“Ha! Is this the city they called‘The perfection of beauty, the source of joy of the whole earth!’?”

Referenced Verses

• Ps 48:2 : 2 Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
• 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 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.
• Ps 50:2 : 2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth.
• Ezek 25:6 : 6 For thus says the Lord GOD; Because you have clapped your hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all your disdain against the land of Israel;
• Ps 22:7 : 7 All who see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
• 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.
• Isa 37:22 : 22 This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you and laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
• Isa 64:11 : 11 Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
• Deut 29:22-28 : 22 So that the generation to come of your children that rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD has laid upon it; 23 And that the whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and in his wrath: 24 Even all nations shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean? 25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: 26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given to them: 27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book: 28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
• 1 Kgs 9:7-9 : 7 Then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, I will cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people: 8 And at this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house? 9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold of other gods, and have worshiped them, and served them: therefore, the LORD has brought upon them all this evil.
• 2 Kgs 19:21 : 21 This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you and laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
• 2 Chr 7:21 : 21 And this house, which is exalted, shall be an astonishment to everyone who passes by it; so that they will say, Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?
• Job 27:22-23 : 22 For God will hurl upon him, and not spare; he would gladly flee out of His hand. 23 Men shall clap their hands at him and shall hiss him out of his place.
• 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 25:18 : 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 51:37 : 37 Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
• Lam 1:8 : 8 Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yes, she sighs, and turns backward.
• Lam 2:6 : 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.
• Lam 2:16 : 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.
• Matt 27:39 : 39 And they that passed by reviled him, shaking their heads,
• Mark 15:29 : 29 And those who passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, you who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,
• Ps 44:14-15 : 14 You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. 15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,
• 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.
• Nah 3:19 : 19 There is no healing for your bruise; your wound is grievous: all that hear the report of you shall clap their hands over you: for upon whom has not your wickedness passed continually?