Verse 16

You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of heaven: the locust spoils, and flies away.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Du har økt handelen mer enn stjernene på himmelen; gresshopper flyr bort.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Du har mangfoldiggjort dine handelsmenn mer enn himmelens stjerner; gresshoppen ødelegger og flyr bort.

• Norsk King James

  Du har mangfoldiggjort dine kjøpmenn; larven ødelegger og forsvinner.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Du har gjort dine handelsfolk flere enn stjernene på himmelen; gresshoppene kaster av seg skinnet og flyr sin vei.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Du har økt dine handelsmenn mer enn stjernene på himmelen; gresshoppene angriper og flyr bort.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Du har mangfoldiggjort kjøpmennene dine utover himmelens stjerner; gresshoppen plyndrer og flyr bort.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Du har multiplisert dine kjøpmenn over himmelens stjerner; kankerormen ødelegger dem og flyr bort.

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

  Du har mangfoldiggjort kjøpmennene dine utover himmelens stjerner; gresshoppen plyndrer og flyr bort.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Du har økt dine kjøpmenn mer enn himmelens stjerner; gresshoppen stryker og flyr bort.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The young locust strips the land and flies away.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Du har forøkt dine kjøpmenn mer enn himmelens stjerner. Gresshopperen sprer seg og flyr bort.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Du haver gjort dem, som handle med dig, flere end Stjernerne paa Himmelen, (men de skulle være) som Oldenborrer, der falde ind og flyve bort.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Du har gjort dine kjøpmenn flere enn himmelens stjerner: gnagerormene herjer, og flyr bort.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Du har økt dine handelsfolk mer enn himmelens stjerner. Gresshoppen stripser, og flyr bort.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Mangfoldiggjør dine kjøpmenn mer enn himmelens stjerner. Gresshoppen river av, og flyr avgårde.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Du har multiplisert dine kjøpmenn over himmelens stjerner: gnagerne herjer og flyktet bort.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  La dine handelsmenn øke mer enn stjernene på himmelen:

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Thy marchauntes haue bene mo then the starres of heaue: but now shal they sprede abrode as the locustes, and fle their waye:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Thou hast multiplied thy marchantes aboue the starres of heauen: the locust spoileth and flyeth away.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Thou hast increased thy marchauntes as the starres of heauen, the locust spoyleth, and fleeth away.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Multiply thy merchants above the stars of the heavens, The cankerworm hath stripped off, and doth flee away.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm ravageth, and fleeth away.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Let your traders be increased more than the stars of heaven:

• World English Bible (2000)

  You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Increase your merchants more than the stars of heaven! They are like the young locust which sheds its skin and flies away.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 15:5 : 5 And he brought him outside, and said, Look now toward heaven, and count the stars, if you are able to number them: and he said to him, So shall your offspring be.
• Gen 22:17 : 17 That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies;
• Neh 9:23 : 23 You also multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and brought them into the land which You had promised to their forefathers they would enter and possess.
• Jer 33:22 : 22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the descendants of David my servant, and the Levites that minister to me.