Verse 8

The cedars in God's garden could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare to its branches, and the plane trees were not like its boughs. No tree in the garden of God was equal to it in beauty.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Ingen sypress i Guds hage kan sammenlignes med den. Ingen einertrær kan måle seg med dens grener, og ingen platan kan sammenlignes med dens skyggefulle kvister. For ingen trær i Guds hage kan sammenlignes med den i skjønnhet.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Sederne i Guds hage kunne ikke skjule ham: sypressene var ikke som hans greiner, og kastanjetærne var ikke som hans greiner; og intet tre i Guds hage var som ham i hans skjønnhet.

• Norsk King James

  Sedertreene i Guds hage kunne ikke skjule ham; grantrærne kunne ikke sammenlignes med greinene hans, og kastanjetrærne kunne ikke matche hans; intet tre i Guds hage kunne sammenlignes med ham i skjønnhet.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Ingen seder i Guds hage kunne måle seg med dens skjønnhet, ingen furutrær liknet dens små grener, og kastanjetrærne var ikke som dens vakre grener; det fantes ingenting i Guds hage som kunne sammenlignes med den i skjønnhet.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Ingen sypresser i Guds hage kunne skjule det. Ingen einebusker kunne ligne dets greiner, og ingen plenet kunne ligne dens løvverk. Ingen tre i Guds hage kunne sammenlignes med det i skjønnhet.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Sederne i Guds hage kunne ikke skjule ham: grantrærne var ikke som hans grener, og kastanjetrærne var ikke som hans greiner; og intet tre i Guds hage var som ham i skjønnhet.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Sederne i Guds hage kunne ikke skjule ham; grantrærne var ikke som hans greiner, og kastanjetrærne var ikke som hans grener; heller ikke noe annet tre i Guds hage var likt ham i sin skjønnhet.

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

  Sederne i Guds hage kunne ikke skjule ham: grantrærne var ikke som hans grener, og kastanjetrærne var ikke som hans greiner; og intet tre i Guds hage var som ham i skjønnhet.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Sedertrær i Guds hage kunne ikke skjule den, sypresser var ikke lik dens grener, og platantrærne var ikke som dens skudd. Ingen trær i Guds hage kunne sammenlignes med dens prakt.

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Sypresser i Guds hage kunne ikke måle seg med den. Einer kunne ikke sammenlignes med dens greiner, og kastanjer var ikke som dens grener. Intet tre i Guds hage var lik den i skjønnhet.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Cederne i Guds Have formørkede ikke hans (ypperlige Anseelse), Fyrretræerne vare ikke at ligne ved hans (smaae) Grene, og Castanietræerne vare ikke som hans (skjønne) Grene; der var intet Træ i Guds Have ligt med ham i hans Deilighed.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Sedertrærne i Guds hage kunne ikke skjule ham: grantrærne var ikke som hans grener, og kastanjetrærne var ikke som hans greiner; intet tre i Guds hage var som ham i skjønnhet.

• KJV1611 - Moderne engelsk

  The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir trees were not like its boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like its branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Ingen seder i Guds hage kunne skjule den; grantrærne var ikke som dens greiner, og platantrærne var ikke som dens grener; og intet tre i Guds hage var som den i skjønnhet.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Ingen sypresser i Guds hage kunne skjule den, ingen einer kunne matche dens grener, og ingen kastanjetrær kunne sammenlignes med dens greiner, ingen trær i Guds hage kunne ligne den i skjønnhet.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Sederne i Guds hage kunne ikke skjule den; grantrærne lignet ikke dens grener, og platantrærne var ikke som dens greiner; ingen trær i Guds hage var like den i skjønnhet.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Ingen sedertrær var likt det i Guds have; grantrærne var ikke som dets grener, og platantrærne var som ingenting i sammenligning med dets armer; intet tre i Guds have var så vakkert.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  no Cedre tre might hyde him. In the pleasaut garden of God, there was no Fyrre tre like his brauches, the playne trees were not like ye bowes of him. All the trees in the garden off God might not be copared vnto him in his beuty:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  The cedars in the garden of God coulde not hide him: no firre tree was like his branches, and the chessenut trees were not like his boughes: all the trees in the garden of God were not like vnto him in his beautie.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  No Cedar tree might hyde hym in the garden of God, there was no fyrre trees like his braunches, the chestnut trees were not like the bowes of him: all the trees in the garden of God, might not be compared vnto him in his beautie.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Cedars have not hid him in the garden of God, Firs have not been like unto his boughs, And chesnut-trees have not been as his branches, No tree in the garden of God hath been like unto him in his beauty,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir-trees were not like its boughs, and the plane-trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like unto it in its beauty.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  No cedars were equal to it in the garden of God; the fir-trees were not like its branches, and plane-trees were as nothing in comparison with its arms; no tree in the garden of God was so beautiful.

• World English Bible (2000)

  The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  The cedars in the garden of God could not eclipse it, nor could the fir trees match its boughs; the plane trees were as nothing compared to its branches; no tree in the garden of God could rival its beauty.

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 28:13 : 13 You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone was your covering: ruby, topaz, and diamond; beryl, onyx, and jasper; sapphire, turquoise, and emerald; and gold. The workmanship of your settings and mountings was prepared for you on the day you were created.
• Ps 80:10 : 10 You cleared the ground for it; it took root and filled the land.
• Gen 13:10 : 10 Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the entire plain of the Jordan was well watered everywhere—this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar.
• Isa 51:3 : 3 For the Lord comforts Zion; He comforts all her ruins. He will make her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing.
• Gen 2:8-9 : 8 The LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there He placed the man He had formed. 9 The LORD God caused every tree that is beautiful in appearance and good for food to grow out of the ground, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
• Ezek 31:16 : 16 I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall when I brought it down to Sheol along with those who descend to the pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower earth.
• Ezek 31:18 : 18 To whom can you be compared in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you too will be brought down to the lower earth, lying among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his hordes, declares the Lord GOD.
• Ps 37:35 : 35 I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a luxuriant native tree.
• Isa 10:7-9 : 7 But this is not what he intends, nor does he plan it in his heart. Instead, his purpose is to destroy and to cut off many nations. 8 For he says, 'Are not all my princes kings? 9 Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? And is not Samaria like Damascus? 10 Just as my hand seized the kingdoms of idols, whose carved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria, 11 shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I have done to Samaria and her images? 12 When the Lord has finished all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will punish the pride of the king of Assyria's heart and the glory of his haughty eyes. 13 For he says, 'By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, because I have understanding. I removed the boundaries of nations, plundered their treasures, and brought down their mighty ones like a bull.' 14 My hand seized the wealth of nations like one finds a nest. As one gathers abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth; no wing fluttered, no beak opened to chirp.
• Isa 36:4-9 : 4 The Rabshakeh said to them, 'Say to Hezekiah: This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is this confidence you rely on? 5 You say—it’s only empty words—‘I have advice and strength for war.’ But now, on whom do you trust that you have rebelled against me? 6 Look, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, Egypt, which if anyone leans on it, it will pierce their hand and wound them. So is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who trust in him. 7 But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ isn’t He the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, 'You must worship at this altar’? 8 Now then, make a wager with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses—if you can provide riders for them! 9 How then can you turn away even one of the least of my master’s officials? And you rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen? 10 Now, have I attacked this land to destroy it without the LORD’s approval? The LORD Himself told me, 'Go up against this land and destroy it.' 11 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, 'Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.' 12 But the Rabshakeh replied, 'Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words? Has he not sent me to the men sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?' 13 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in Hebrew: 'Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! 14 This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he cannot deliver you! 15 And do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD by saying, ‘The LORD will surely rescue us; this city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.’ 16 Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat from your own vine and your own fig tree and drink water from your own cistern, 17 until I come and take you to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. 18 Do not let Hezekiah mislead you by saying, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’ Have the gods of any nations ever delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?
• Isa 37:11-13 : 11 You have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands by utterly destroying them. Will you be delivered? 12 Did the gods of the nations that my predecessors destroyed—Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar—deliver them? 13 Where now is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, or of Hena and Ivvah?