Verse 3

And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the jackals of the wilderness.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Esau hatet jeg, og jeg gjorde hans fjell til en ødemark og hans arveland til bolig for ørkenens sjakaler.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  men Esau hatet jeg. Jeg gjorde hans fjell til en ødemark og hans arv til et hjem for ørkenens sjakaler.

• Norsk King James

  Men jeg hatet Esau og ødela hans fjell og arv.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Esau har jeg hatet, og jeg har gjort hans fjell til et øde sted og gitt hans arv til ørkenens sjakaler.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Esau hatet jeg, og jeg gjorde hans fjell til ødemark og ga hans land til ørkenens sjakaler.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  men Esau hatet jeg, og jeg gjorde hans fjell og arv til en ødemark for ødemarkens drager.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Og jeg hatet Esau, og gjorde hans fjell og arv øde for ørkenens drager.

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

  men Esau hatet jeg, og jeg gjorde hans fjell og arv til en ødemark for ødemarkens drager.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  men Esau har jeg hatet. Jeg har gjort hans fjell til ødemark og overgitt hans arveland til sjakalene i ørkenen.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  but Esau I have hated. I have turned his mountains into a wasteland and given his inheritance to the wild creatures of the desert.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Men Esau har jeg hatet; Jeg har gjort hans fjell til en ødemark og gitt hans arv til sjakalene i ørkenen.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Men jeg hadede Esau, og gjorde hans Bjerge aldeles øde, og hans Arv for Drager i Ørken.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  men Esau hatet jeg, og jeg gjorde hans fjell og arv til en ødemark for ørkenens skapninger.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  men Esau hatet jeg, og jeg gjorde hans fjell til ødemark og ga hans arv til ørkenens sjakaler."

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Er ikke Esau Jakobs bror? sier Herren. Og likevel elsker jeg Jakob, men Esau har jeg hatet. Jeg har gjort hans fjell til en ødemark, og hans arv til et hjem for ørkenens drager.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  men Esau hatet jeg, og jeg gjorde hans fjell til en ørken og hans arv til sjakalene i ødemarken.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  og Esau hatet jeg. Jeg ødela hans fjell og ga hans arv til ørkenens dyr.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  and hated Esau: Yee I haue made his hilles waist, and his heretage a wyldernesse for dragos.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And I hated Esau, and made his mountaines wast, & his heritage a wildernes for dragons.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And I hated Esau, & made his mountaynes waste, and his heritage a wildernesse for Dragons.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness."

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Is not Esau Jacob's brother? -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And I love Jacob, and Esau I have hated, And I make his mountains a desolation, And his inheritance for dragons of a wilderness.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And Esau was hated, and I sent destruction on his mountains, and gave his heritage to the beasts of the waste land.

• World English Bible (2000)

  but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness."

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  and rejected Esau. I turned Esau’s mountains into a deserted wasteland and gave his territory to the wild jackals.”

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 35:3-4 : 3 And say to it, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against you, and I will stretch out My hand against you, and I will make you most desolate. 4 I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate, and you shall know that I am the LORD.
• Joel 3:19 : 19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
• Jer 49:16-18 : 16 Your terribleness has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says the LORD. 17 Also Edom shall be a desolation: everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all its plagues. 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, says the LORD, no man shall dwell there, nor shall a son of man reside in it.
• Jer 51:37 : 37 Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
• Ezek 25:13-14 : 13 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword. 14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord GOD.
• Obad 1:10 : 10 For your violence against your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.
• Obad 1:18-21 : 18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall kindle them and devour them, and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken. 19 Those of the South shall possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the plain the Philistines; they shall possess the fields of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria, and Benjamin shall possess Gilead. 20 The captives of this host of the children of Israel shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath, and the captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the South. 21 Then deliverers shall come up on Mount Zion to judge the mountain of Esau, and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.
• Luke 14:26 : 26 If any man comes to me and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
• Ezek 35:7-8 : 7 Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him who passes out and him who returns. 8 And I will fill its mountains with its slain men: in your hills, and in your valleys, and in all your rivers, shall they fall who are slain with the sword.
• Ezek 36:3-4 : 3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the rest of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people: 4 Therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and mockery to the rest of the nations that are all around;
• Ezek 36:7 : 7 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; I have lifted up my hand, Surely the nations that are about you, they shall bear their own shame.
• Ezek 36:9 : 9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown:
• Ezek 36:14-15 : 14 Therefore you shall devour men no more, nor bereave your nations any more, says the Lord GOD. 15 Neither will I cause men to hear in you the shame of the nations any more, nor shall you bear the reproach of the people any more, nor shall you cause your nations to fall any more, says the Lord GOD.
• Gen 29:30-31 : 30 And he went in also to Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him another seven years. 31 And when the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
• Deut 21:15-16 : 15 If a man has two wives, one beloved and another hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is hers that was hated, 16 Then it shall be, when he makes his sons to inherit what he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, who is indeed the firstborn:
• Isa 13:21-22 : 21 But wild beasts of the desert will lie there; and their houses will be full of doleful creatures; and owls will dwell there, and satyrs will dance there. 22 And the wild beasts of the islands will cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.
• Isa 34:9-9 : 9 And its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch. 10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; its smoke shall ascend forever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever. 11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl and the raven shall dwell in it: and He shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. 12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all its princes shall be nothing. 13 And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and brambles in its fortresses: and it shall be a habitation for dragons, and a court for owls. 14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
• Isa 35:7 : 7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water; in the habitation of jackals, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
• 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.
• Jer 49:10 : 10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he will not be able to hide himself: his descendants are spoiled, along with his brothers and his neighbors, and he is no more.