Verse 12

Yes, they made their hearts like an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts sent in His Spirit by the former prophets: therefore, great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.

Other Translations

  • GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

    De gjorde hjertene sine hardere, så de ikke ville høre loven og budskapet som Herren sendte ved sin Ånd gjennom de tidligere profetene. Derfor oppsto det stor vrede fra Herren over hærskarene.

  • Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

    Ja, de gjorde hjertene sine harde som en flintstein for å ikke høre loven og ordene som Herren, hærskarenes Gud, sendte gjennom sin Ånd ved de tidligere profetene. Derfor kom stor vrede fra Herren, hærskarenes Gud.

  • Norsk King James

    Ja, de gjorde hjertene sine harde som flint, så de ikke skulle høre loven og ordene som Herren hærskarenes Gud hadde sendt i sin Ånd gjennom de tidligere profetene; derfor kom en stor harme fra Herren hærskarenes Gud.

  • Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

    De gjorde sitt hjerte hardt som diamant for ikke å lytte til loven og de ordene som hærskarenes Herre sendte med sin Ånd ved de tidlige profetene. Derfor kom det stor vrede fra hærskarenes Herre.

  • Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

    De gjorde hjertene sine harde som flint for ikke å høre loven og de ordene som Herren, hærskarenes Gud, sendte ved sin Ånd gjennom de tidligere profetene. Derfor kom en stor vrede fra Herren, hærskarenes Gud.

  • Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

    Ja, de gjorde hjertene harde som stein, for ikke å høre på loven og ordene som Herren, hærskarenes Gud, hadde sendt ved sin Ånd gjennom de tidligere profetene. Derfor kom stor vrede fra Herren, hærskarenes Gud.

  • o3-mini KJV Norsk

    De herdet hjertet sitt som en hard stein, for ikke å høre loven og de ord som Herren over himmelfærden hadde sendt med sin ånd gjennom de tidligere profetene. Derfor kom en stor vrede fra Herren over himmelfærden.

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

    Ja, de gjorde hjertene harde som stein, for ikke å høre på loven og ordene som Herren, hærskarenes Gud, hadde sendt ved sin Ånd gjennom de tidligere profetene. Derfor kom stor vrede fra Herren, hærskarenes Gud.

  • Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

    De gjorde sitt hjerte hardt som flint for å ikke høre loven og ordene som Herren, hærskarenes Gud, hadde sendt ved sin Ånd gjennom de tidligere profetene. Derfor kom det stor vrede fra Herren, hærskarenes Gud.

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    They made their hearts as hard as flint, refusing to hear the law and the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore, great wrath came from the LORD of Hosts.

  • biblecontext

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  • GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

    De gjorde hjertene harde som stein for ikke å høre loven og ordene som Herren, hærskarenes Gud, sendte ved sin Ånd gjennom de tidligere profetene. Derfor kom stor vrede fra Herren, hærskarenes Gud.

  • Original Norsk Bibel 1866

    Og de satte deres Hjerte (som) en Demant, for ikke at høre Loven og Ordene, hvilke den Herre Zebaoth sendte ved sin Aand formedelst de første Propheter, og der var en stor Vrede fra den Herre Zebaoth.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.

  • KJV 1769 norsk

    Ja, de gjorde hjertene sine harde som en stein, for at de ikke skulle høre loven og de ordene som Herren, hærskarenes Gud, hadde sendt ved sin Ånd gjennom de tidligere profetene. Derfor kom stor vrede fra Herren, hærskarenes Gud.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Webster

    Ja, de gjorde sine hjerter harde som flint, for ikke å høre loven og ordene som Herrens hærskare hadde sendt ved sin Ånd gjennom de tidligere profetene. Derfor kom stor vrede fra Herrens hærskare.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

    Og deres hjerter gjorde de harde som en diamant, så de ikke hørte loven og ordene som Herren hærskarenes Gud sendte ved sin Ånd gjennom de tidligere profeter; derfor kom stor vrede fra Herren hærskarenes Gud.

  • Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

    Ja, de gjorde sine hjerter harde som stein, for ikke å høre loven og ordene som Herren hærskaren sendte ved sin Ånd gjennom de tidligere profetene, og derfor kom stor vrede fra Herren hærskaren.

  • Norsk oversettelse av BBE

    Og de gjorde sine hjerter harde som stein, så de ikke ville lytte til loven og ordene som Herren over hærskarene hadde talt ved de tidligere profetene, og stor vrede kom fra Herren over hærskarene.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    yee they made their hertes as an Adamant stone, lest they shulde heare the lawe & wordes, which the LORDE of hoostes sent in his holy sprete by the prophetes afore tyme. Wherfore the LORDE of hoostes was very wroth at them.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, least they should heare the Lawe and the wordes which the Lord of hostes sent in his spirit by the ministerie of ye former Prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hostes.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Yea, they made their heartes as an Adamant stone, lest they should heare the law and wordes which the Lorde of hoastes sent in his holy spirite by the prophetes aforetime: Wherfore the lord of hoastes was very wroth at them.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Yea, they made their hearts [as] an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Hosts.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And their heart they have made adamant, Against hearing the law, and the words, That Jehovah of Hosts sent by His Spirit, By the hand of the former prophets, And their is great wrath from Jehovah of Hosts.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which Jehovah of hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets: therefore there came great wrath from Jehovah of hosts.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Indeed, they made their hearts as hard as diamond, so that they could not obey the Torah and the other words the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had poured out great wrath.

Referenced Verses

  • Neh 9:29-30 : 29 You testified against them, that You might bring them back to Your law. Yet they acted proudly and did not heed Your commandments but sinned against Your judgments, which if a man does, he shall live by them. And they shrugged their shoulders, stiffened their necks, and would not hear. 30 Yet for many years You had patience with them and testified against them by Your Spirit in Your prophets. Yet they would not give ear; therefore, You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
  • 2 Chr 36:16 : 16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
  • Ezek 11:19 : 19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh and will give them a heart of flesh:
  • Ezek 36:26 : 26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
  • Dan 9:11-12 : 11 Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, even by departing, that they might not obey Your voice; therefore, the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against Him. 12 And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great calamity: for under the whole heaven, such as has been done upon Jerusalem has not been done.
  • Ezek 2:4 : 4 For they are impudent children and hardhearted. I do send you to them; and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD.
  • Ezek 3:7-9 : 7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hardhearted. 8 Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads. 9 Like an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: do not fear them, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
  • Isa 6:10 : 10 Make the heart of this people dull, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and healed.
  • Isa 48:4 : 4 Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow as bronze;
  • Jer 5:3 : 3 O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
  • Jer 17:1 : 1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond; it is engraved upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
  • Jer 26:19 : 19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the LORD, and implore the LORD, and the LORD relented of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus we might bring great evil against ourselves.
  • Job 9:4 : 4 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against Him and succeeded?
  • Ps 50:17 : 17 Seeing you hate instruction, and cast My words behind you.
  • Zech 7:7 : 7 Should you not hear the words which the LORD has proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities around her, when men inhabited the South and the plain?
  • Matt 13:15 : 15 For this people's heart has become callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise, they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.
  • Mark 4:12 : 12 that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
  • Luke 8:12 : 12 Those by the wayside are they that hear; then comes the devil, and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
  • John 3:19-20 : 19 This is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
  • Acts 7:51-52 : 51 You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. 52 Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? And they have killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers,
  • Acts 28:27 : 27 For the heart of this people has grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn, so that I should heal them.
  • 1 Thess 2:15-16 : 15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God, and are contrary to all men: 16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; but the wrath has come upon them to the utmost.
  • 2 Thess 2:10-12 : 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be condemned who did not believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
  • 1 Pet 1:11-12 : 11 Searching for what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating, when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. 12 To them it was revealed that not to themselves, but to us they were ministering the things which have now been reported to you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things which angels desire to look into.
  • 2 Pet 1:21 : 21 For the prophecy did not come in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.