Verse 15

There the fire shall devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the locust: make yourself many like the locust, make yourself many like the swarming locusts.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Ditt sted vil bli fortært av ild; sverdet vil ødelegge deg som en sverm gresshopper; bli tallrike som gresshopper, bli mektige!

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Der skal ilden fortære deg; sverdet skal skjære deg bort, det skal fortære deg som en gresshoppe: gjør deg selv mange som gresshopper, gjør deg selv mange som sirisser.

• Norsk King James

  Der skal ilden fortære deg; sverdet skal hugge deg ned og fortære deg som en larve; bli mange som gresshopper.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Der skal ilden fortære deg, og sverdet skal utslette deg og fortære deg som gresshopper. Mangfoldiggjør deg selv som gresshopper, bli mange som gresshopper!

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Der skal ilden fortære deg, sverdet skal utrydde deg, det skal fortære deg som gresshopper. Mangfoldiggjør deg som gresshopper, gjør deg mange som larvene.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Der skal ilden fortære deg, sverdet skal kutte deg, det skal ete deg opp som gresshopper; gjør deg selv mange som gresshopper, gjør deg selv mange som luften.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Der vil ilden fortære deg; sverdet skal kutte deg ned, og det vil spise deg opp som en kankerorm; gjør deg tallrik som kankerormen, gjør deg tallrik som gresshopper.

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

  Der skal ilden fortære deg, sverdet skal kutte deg, det skal ete deg opp som gresshopper; gjør deg selv mange som gresshopper, gjør deg selv mange som luften.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Der vil ilden fortære deg, sverdet vil kutte deg ned, det vil fortære deg som larver. Gjør deg tallrik som gresshopper, som gresshopper i antall!

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down. It will consume you like the young locusts. Multiply yourselves like locusts; increase yourselves like swarming locusts.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Der skal ilden fortære deg, sverdet skal kutte deg av; det skal fortære deg som en gresshoppe. Mangfoldiggjør deg som gresshopper, mangfoldiggjør deg som locusts.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Der skal Ilden fortære dig, Sværdet skal udrydde dig, det skal fortære dig som Oldenborrer; skaf dig en svar (Hob Folk) som Oldenborrer, (o Konge!) skaf dig en svar (Hob Folk) som Græshopper, (o Ninive!)

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Der skal ilden fortære deg; sverdet skal utslette deg, det skal fortære deg som en gnagerorm: bli mange som gnagerormene, bli mange som gresshoppene.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Der vil ilden fortære deg. Sverdet vil kutte deg ned. Det vil fortære deg som en gresshoppe. Mangfoldiggjør deg som gresshopper. Mangfoldiggjør deg som en gresshoppe.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Der skal ilden fortære deg, sverdet skal avskjære deg, den skal fortære deg som en gresshoppe. Gjør deg så mange som larvefluer, gjør deg så mange som gresshopper.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Der skal ilden fortære deg; sverdet skal kutte deg ned; den skal fortære deg som gnagere: gjør deg selv mange som gnagere, gjør deg mange som gresshopper.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Der vil ilden gjøre deg til en ørken; du vil bli hugget ned av sverdet: gjør deg så tallrik som ormene, så tallrik som gresshoppene.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  yet the fyre shal consume the, the swerde shal destroye the, yee as ye locuste doth, so shal it eate the vp. It shal fall heuely vpon the as the locustes, yee right heuely shal it fall vpon the, euen as the greshoppers.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  There shall ye fire deuoure thee: the sword shall cut thee off: it shall eate thee vp like the locustes, though thou bee multiplied like the locustes, and multiplyed like the grashopper.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  There the fire shall deuoure thee, the sword shall cut thee of, shall deuoure as the locust, though thou be multiplied as the locust, though thou be as many as the grashopper.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  There consume thee doth a fire, Cut thee off doth a sword, It doth consume thee as a cankerworm! Make thyself heavy as the cankerworm, Make thyself heavy as the locust.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the canker-worm: make thyself many as the canker-worm; make thyself many as the locust.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.

• World English Bible (2000)

  There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  There the fire will consume you; the sword will cut you down; it will devour you like the young locust would.The Assyrian Defenders Will Flee Multiply yourself like the young locust; multiply yourself like the flying locust!

Referenced Verses

• Joel 1:4 : 4 What the palmerworm has left, the locust has eaten; and what the locust has left, the cankerworm has eaten; and what the cankerworm has left, the caterpillar has eaten.
• Nah 2:13 : 13 Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions: and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no more be heard.
• Nah 3:13 : 13 Behold, your people in your midst are women: the gates of your land shall be set wide open to your enemies: the fire shall devour your bars.
• Zeph 2:13 : 13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
• Joel 2:25 : 25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
• Exod 10:13-15 : 13 And Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. 14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and rested in all the territory of Egypt; they were very grievous; before them there were no locusts like them, nor after them shall be such. 15 For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they ate every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left; and no green thing remained in the trees or in the plants of the field throughout all the land of Egypt.