Verse 17

They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth; they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of you.

Other Translations

  • GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

    De skal slikke støv som en slange, som krypende skapninger på jorden. De skal komme skjelvende ut av sine festninger til Herren vår Gud. De skal frykte og skjelve for deg.

  • Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

    De skal slikke støv som en slange, som jordens kryp skal de krype ut av sine hull: de skal frykte Herren vår Gud, og ha ærefrykt for deg.

  • Norsk King James

    De skal smake støvet som en slange; de skal krype ut av hulene sine som ormer på jorden; de skal være redde for HERREN vår Gud, og frykte på grunn av deg.

  • Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

    De skal krype som slanger, som krypende ormer på jorden, de skal komme skjelvende ut av sine skjulesteder, de skal skjelve for Herren vår Gud, og frykte for deg.

  • Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

    De skal slikke støv som slanger, som krøpende skapninger på jorden. De skal komme beve til Herren vår Gud, og de skal frykte for deg.

  • Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

    De skal slikke støvet som en slange, de skal komme frem fra sine hull som jordens krypdyr: de skal frykte Herren vår Gud og de skal ha frykt for deg.

  • o3-mini KJV Norsk

    De skal slikke støvet som en slange og kryp ut av sine tilfluktssteder som jordens mark; de skal frykte HERREN, vår Gud, og skjelve for din skyld.

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

    De skal slikke støvet som en slange, de skal komme frem fra sine hull som jordens krypdyr: de skal frykte Herren vår Gud og de skal ha frykt for deg.

  • Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

    De skal slikke støv som slanger, som kryp på jorden. De skal komme skjelvende ut av sine skjulesteder; de skal frykte Herren vår Gud og stå redd foran deg.

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    They will lick the dust like snakes, like creatures that crawl on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds; they will dread the LORD our God and stand in awe of You.

  • biblecontext

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  • GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

    De skal slikke støv som slangen, som jordens krypdyr skal de skjelve ut av sine skjul; til Herren vår Gud skal de komme med frykt, og for deg skal de engste seg.

  • Original Norsk Bibel 1866

    De skulle slikke Støv som Slangen; som (Orme), der krybe paa Jorden, skulle de bevæge sig af deres indelukkede (Huller); de skulle forskrækkes (og løbe) til Herren vor Gud, og frygte sig for dig.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.

  • KJV 1769 norsk

    De skal slikke støvet som en slange; de skal krype ut av sine hull som mark i jorden. De skal frykte Herren vår Gud, og de skal være redde for deg.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Webster

    De skal slikke støvet som en slange. Som jordens krypende vesener skal de komme skjelvende ut av sine reir. De skal komme med frykt til Herren vår Gud, og være redde for deg.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

    De slikker støv som en slange, som kryp på jorden. Fra sine skjulesteder skjelver de for Herren vår Gud, ja, de frykter deg.

  • Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

    De skal slikke støv som en slange; som jordens kryp skal de komme skjelvende ut av sine lukkede steder; de skal komme med frykt til Herren vår Gud og være redde for deg.

  • Norsk oversettelse av BBE

    De vil spise støv som en slange, som de som kryper på jorden; de vil komme skjelvende av frykt fra sine skjulesteder: de vil komme med frykt til Herren vår Gud, fulle av redsel på grunn av deg.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    They shal licke the dust like a serpent, & as the wormes of the earth, yt tremble in their holes. They shalbe afrayed of the LORDE oure God, & they shal feare ye.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    They shall licke the dust like a serpent: they shall mooue out of their holes like wormes: they shalbe afraide of the Lord our God, & shall feare because of thee.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    They shal licke the dust like a serpente, and as the wormes of the earth that tremble in their holes: they shalbe afrayde of the Lorde our God, and they shall feare thee.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, And will be afraid because of you.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    They lick dust as a serpent, as fearful things of earth, They tremble from their enclosures, Of Jehovah our God they are afraid, Yea, they are afraid of Thee.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    They shall lick the dust like a serpent; like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their close places; they shall come with fear unto Jehovah our God, and shall be afraid because of thee.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    They will take dust as their food like a snake, like the things which go flat on the earth; they will come shaking with fear out of their secret places: they will come with fear to the Lord our God, full of fear because of you.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, and will be afraid because of you.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    They will lick the dust like a snake, like serpents crawling on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds to the LORD our God; they will be terrified of you.

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 49:23 : 23 And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed who wait for me.
  • Ps 72:9 : 9 Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him, and his enemies shall lick the dust.
  • Ps 18:45 : 45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their closed places.
  • Isa 2:19-21 : 19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD and for the glory of His majesty, when He arises to shake the earth terribly. 20 In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; 21 To go into the clefts of the rocks and into the tops of the rugged rocks, for fear of the LORD and for the glory of His majesty, when He arises to shake the earth terribly.
  • Isa 25:3 : 3 Therefore the strong people shall glorify You; the city of the terrible nations shall fear You.
  • Gen 3:14-15 : 14 And the LORD God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; on your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life: 15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.
  • Exod 15:14-16 : 14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Philistia. 15 Then the chiefs of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away. 16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of your arm they shall be as still as a stone; till your people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over whom you have purchased.
  • Josh 2:9-9 : 9 And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that your terror has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you. 10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt; and what you did unto the two kings of the Amorites, who were on the other side of the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed. 11 And as soon as we heard these things, our hearts melted, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.
  • Josh 9:24 : 24 And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told to your servants how the LORD your God commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
  • 1 Sam 14:11 : 11 Both of them revealed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines, and the Philistines said, "Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hidden themselves."
  • Ps 9:20 : 20 Put them in fear, O LORD, that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
  • Isa 59:19 : 19 So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.
  • Isa 60:14 : 14 Also the sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending to you; and all those who despised you shall fall prostrate at the soles of your feet, and they shall call you, The City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 64:2 : 2 As when the melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil, to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!
  • Isa 65:25 : 25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,' says the LORD.
  • Jer 16:16 : 16 Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says the LORD, and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
  • Jer 33:9 : 9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honor before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do for them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I provide to it.
  • Lam 3:29 : 29 He puts his mouth in the dust, there may yet be hope.
  • Zech 14:5 : 5 And you shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yes, you shall flee, as you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with you.
  • Rev 3:9 : 9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
  • Rev 6:15-17 : 15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of his wrath has come; and who shall be able to stand?
  • Rev 18:9-9 : 9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her, shall mourn and lament for her, when they see the smoke of her burning, 10 Standing far off for fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour your judgment has come.