Verse 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?

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Se, Herre, og se til hvem du har handlet slik. Skal kvinner spise sin egen frukt, barna de har båret? Skal prest og profet bli drept i Herrens helligdom? Sela.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Se, Herre, og tenk på hvem du har gjort slik mot. Skal kvinner spise sitt eget avkom, små barn? Skal prest og profet bli drept i Herrens helligdom?

• Norsk King James

  Se, O HERRE, og vurder hvem du har gjort dette mot. Skal kvinnene spise sine barn, barna som er små? Skal presten og profeten bli drept i Herrens helligdom?

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Herre, se og legg merke til hvem du handler slik med; skulle kvinner spise sin frukt, barna de bærer i armene? Skulle prest og profet drepes i Herrens helligdom?

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Se, Herre, og betrakt til hvem du har gjort slik. Skal kvinner spise sin frukt, sine duggvåte spedbarn? Skal prest og profet drepes i Herrens helligdom?

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Se, Herre, og vurder hvem du har gjort dette mot. Skal mødrene spise sine avkom, de beskyttede barna? Skal presten og profeten bli drept i Herrens helligdom?

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Se, o Herre, og vurder dem du har berørt – skal kvinnene få nyte sin avling, og små barn leve? Skal presten og profeten bli drept i Herrens helligdom?

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

  Se, Herre, og vurder hvem du har gjort dette mot. Skal mødrene spise sine avkom, de beskyttede barna? Skal presten og profeten bli drept i Herrens helligdom?

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Herre, se og betrakt hvem du har behandlet slik. Skal kvinner spise sine fruktbare barn, de små de bar på sine armer? Skal prest og profet bli drept i Herrens helligdom?

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Look, LORD, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women eat their own children, the little ones they have cherished? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

• biblecontext

  { "verseID": "Lamentations.2.20", "source": "רְאֵ֤ה יְהוָה֙ וְֽהַבִּ֔יטָה לְמִ֖י עוֹלַ֣לְתָּ כֹּ֑ה אִם־תֹּאכַ֨לְנָה נָשִׁ֤ים פִּרְיָם֙ עֹלֲלֵ֣י טִפֻּחִ֔ים אִם־יֵהָרֵ֛ג בְּמִקְדַּ֥שׁ אֲדֹנָ֖י כֹּהֵ֥ן וְנָבִֽיא׃", "text": "*rəʾēh* *YHWH* and-*habḇîṭâ* to-whom *ʿôlaltā* thus if-*tōʾḵalnâ* *nāšîm* *piryām* *ʿōlălê* *ṭippuḥîm* if-*yēhārēḡ* in-*miqdaš* *ʾăḏōnāy* *kōhēn* and-*nāḇîʾ*", "grammar": { "*rəʾēh*": "qal imperative, masculine singular - see/look", "*YHWH*": "proper noun - LORD", "*wəhabḇîṭâ*": "conjunction + hiphil imperative, masculine singular + paragogic he - and observe/consider", "*ləmî*": "preposition + interrogative - to whom", "*ʿôlaltā*": "poel perfect, 2nd masculine singular - you have done/dealt severely", "*kōh*": "adverb - thus/so", "*ʾim-tōʾḵalnâ*": "conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd feminine plural - if they shall eat", "*nāšîm*": "noun, feminine plural - women", "*piryām*": "noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their fruit", "*ʿōlălê*": "noun, masculine plural construct - children of", "*ṭippuḥîm*": "noun, masculine plural - span/handbreadths", "*ʾim-yēhārēḡ*": "conjunction + niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - if shall be slain", "*bəmiqdaš*": "preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - in sanctuary of", "*ʾăḏōnāy*": "noun, masculine singular - Lord", "*kōhēn*": "noun, masculine singular - priest", "*wənāḇîʾ*": "conjunction + noun, masculine singular - and prophet" }, "variants": { "*habḇîṭâ*": "look/observe/regard/consider", "*ʿôlaltā*": "deal severely with/inflict/abuse", "*piryām*": "fruit/offspring", "*ʿōlălê*": "children/infants", "*ṭippuḥîm*": "those carefully raised/those tenderly cared for", "*yēhārēḡ*": "be killed/be slain", "*miqdaš*": "sanctuary/holy place/temple" } }

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Se, Herre, og betrakt hvem du har gjort dette mot! Skal kvinner spise sitt avkom, sine friske babyer? Skal prest og profet bli drept i Herrens helligdom? Sela.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Herre! see og sku, hvem du haver saa handlet med; mon Qvinder skulde æde deres Frugt, de spæde Børn, (som man bærer) paa Hænderne? mon Præst og Prophet skulde ihjelslaaes i Herrens Helligdom?

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be sin in the sanctuary of the Lord?

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Se, Herre, og betrakt til hvem du har gjort dette. Skal kvinner spise sitt eget avkom, barn de har båret i fanget? Skal prest og profet bli drept i Herrens helligdom?

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Se, Herre, og se hvem du har gjort dette mot! Skal kvinnene spise sin frukt, barna de bærer på armene? Skal presten og profeten bli drept i Herrens helligdom?

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Se, o Jehovah, og se oppmerksomt, til hvem du har handlet slik, kan kvinner spise deres frukt, spedbarn en håndbredd store? Prest og profet er slått i hjel i Herrens helligdom.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Se, o Herre, og se til hvem du har gjort dette! Skal kvinnene spise sitt eget avkom, barna de har båret? Skal presten og profeten drepes i Herrens helligdom?

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Se! Herre, se hvem du har gjort dette mot! Skal kvinnene ta som sin mat kroppens frukt, barna de holder i armene? skal presten og profeten bli drept på Herrens hellige sted?

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Beholde (O LORDE) & considre, why hast thou gathered me vp so clene? Shal the women then eate their owne frute, euen children of a spanne longe? Shal the prestes and prophetes be slayne thus in the Sanctuary of the LORDE?

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Beholde, O Lord, and consider to whome thou hast done thus: shall the women eate their fruite, and children of a spanne long? shall the Priest and the Prophet be slaine in the Sanctuarie of the Lord?

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Beholde O Lorde, and consider to whom thou hast done thus: Shall the women then eate their owne fruite, euen chyldren of a spanne long? shall the priestes and prophetes be slayne in the sanctuarie of the Lorde?

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, [and] children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  See, O Jehovah, and look attentively, To whom Thou hast acted thus, Do women eat their fruit, infants of a handbreadth? Slain in the sanctuary of the Lord are priest and prophet?

• American Standard Version (1901)

  See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?

• World English Bible (2000)

  Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  ר(Resh)Jerusalem Speaks: Look, O LORD! Consider! Whom have you ever afflicted like this? Should women eat their offspring, their healthy infants? Should priest and prophet be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?

Referenced Verses

• Lam 4:10 : 10 The hands of the compassionate women have cooked their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
• Jer 19:9 : 9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend during the siege and distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their lives, shall distress them.
• Ps 78:64 : 64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
• Exod 32:11 : 11 Moses entreated the LORD his God, and said, "LORD, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people, whom You have brought forth from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
• Deut 9:26 : 26 I prayed therefore to the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, do not destroy your people and your inheritance, which you have redeemed through your greatness, which you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
• 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,
• Lam 4:16 : 16 The anger of the LORD has scattered them; he will no longer regard them; they showed no respect to the priests, nor favored the elders.
• Ezek 5:10 : 10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in your midst, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in you, and the whole remnant of you I will scatter into all the winds.
• Ezek 9:5-6 : 5 And to the others he said in my hearing, Go after him through the city and strike: let not your eye spare, neither have any pity: 6 Utterly slay old and young, both maidens, and little children, and women: but do not come near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began with the elders who were before the house.
• Jer 23:11-15 : 11 For both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness, says the LORD. 12 Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall in it; for I will bring disaster upon them, the year of their punishment, says the LORD. 13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied by Baal and caused my people Israel to err. 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.
• Lam 1:19 : 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.
• Deut 28:53-57 : 53 And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters, which the LORD your God has given you, in the siege, and in the distress, with which your enemies shall distress you: 54 So that the man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: 55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he has nothing left him in the siege, and in the distress, with which your enemies shall distress you in all your gates. 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 57 And toward her young one that comes out from between her feet, and toward her children who she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and distress, with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.
• 2 Kgs 6:28-29 : 28 And the king said to her, What troubles you? And she answered, This woman said to me, Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow. 29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said to her on the next day, Give your son, that we may eat him: and she has hidden her son.
• Lev 26:29 : 29 And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat.
• Isa 9:14-17 : 14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. 15 The elder and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail. 16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err, and those who are led by them are destroyed. 17 Therefore the Lord will have no joy in their young men, nor have mercy on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
• Isa 63:16-19 : 16 Doubtless you are our Father, though Abraham is ignorant of us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer; your name is from everlasting. 17 O LORD, why have you made us to stray from your ways, and hardened our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance. 18 The people of your holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary. 19 We are yours: you never ruled over them; they were not called by your name.
• Isa 64:8-9 : 8 But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand. 9 Do not be very angry, O LORD, neither remember iniquity forever: behold, see, we beseech you, we are all your people. 10 Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. 12 Will you refrain yourself for these things, O LORD? Will you hold your peace, and afflict us very sore?
• 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 14:15-18 : 15 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name, and I have not sent them, yet they say, 'Sword and famine shall not be in this land'—by sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed. 16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; they will have no one to bury them—neither them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters—for I will pour their wickedness upon them. 17 Therefore, you shall speak this word to them: 'Let my eyes flow with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.' 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 14:20-21 : 20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against You. 21 Do not abhor us, for Your name's sake; do not disgrace the throne of Your glory; remember, do not break Your covenant with us.