Verse 21

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Derfor, la hungersnøden ramme deres barn, la dem falle for sverdet. La deres koner bli barnløse og enker, og la mennene deres bli drept av pesten, og la de unge mennene falle i krigen.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Derfor, overgi deres barn til sulten, og la deres blod flyte ved sverdets kraft; la deres hustruer bli barnløse og enker; la deres menn bli drept; og la deres unge menn bli slått ned av sverdet i kamp.

• Norsk King James

  Derfor må du la deres barn sulte, og la deres blod utgytes med sverdet; la deres kvinner bli foreldreløse; la deres menn bli drept; la deres unge menn falle i kampen.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  La derfor deres barn sulte, og la dem spres av sverdet; la deres kvinner bli barnløse og enker, la deres menn dø og deres unge menn bli slått ned i krigen.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Derfor, overgi deres barn til sulten og la dem falle for sverdet. Må deres koner bli enker og barnløse, og deres menn føle sverdet i døden. Må deres unge menn bli slått ned med sverdet i krigen.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Derfor gi deres barn over til hungersnød, og gi dem blodbad ved sverdets kraft; la deres koner være uten barn, og være enker, og la deres menn bli drept; la deres unge menn bli drept av sverdet i kamp.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Overgi derfor deres barn til sultens herjinger, og la deres blod flyte ved sverdets kraft; la deres hustruer ende opp uten barn og bli enker, og la deres menn falle—la også deres unge menn bli drept med sverdet i kamp.

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

  Derfor gi deres barn over til hungersnød, og gi dem blodbad ved sverdets kraft; la deres koner være uten barn, og være enker, og la deres menn bli drept; la deres unge menn bli drept av sverdet i kamp.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Derfor, gi deres barn til hungersnød, og la dem falle for sverdet; la deres koner bli barnløse og enker, og la deres menn bli drept av plagene, la deres unge menn falle for sverdet i krig.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, and let their men die by deadly disease; let their young men be struck down in battle.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Derfor skal du gi deres barn til sulten og overgi dem til sverdet. La deres koner bli enker og barnløse, og la deres menn bli drept, deres unge menn falle for sverdet i krigen.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Derfor giv deres Børn til Hungeren, og lad dem adspredes ved Sværdets Magt, og lad deres Hustruer blive barnløse og Enker, og deres Mænd ihjelslagne ved Døden; lad deres unge Karle blive slagne med Sværd i Krigen.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Overgi derfor deres barn til hungersnød, og utøs deres blod ved sverdets kraft; la deres koner bli barnløse og bli enker; la deres menn bli drept, la deres unge menn falle ved sverdet i strid.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Gi derfor deres barn over til hungersnød, og overlat dem til sverdets makt; la deres koner bli barnløse og enker; la deres menn bli drept av døden, og deres unge menn bli slått med sverdet i kamp.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Gi derfor deres sønner over til hungersnød, og la dem bli nådd av sverdets kant, la deres hustruer bli barnløse og enker; la deres menn bli drept av døden, og deres unge menn bli stukket ned av sverdet i kamp.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Gi derfor deres barn til hungersnød, overgi dem til sverdets makt; la deres koner bli barnløse og enker; la deres menn bli slått i hjel, og deres unge menn treffes av sverdet i kamp.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Derfor, la deres barn være uten mat, og gi dem over til sverdets makt; la deres koner være barnløse og bli enker; la deres menn falle i døden, og deres unge menn bli drept i kamp.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Therfore let their childre dye of hunger, and let them be oppressed with the swearde. Let their wyues be robbed of their childre, and become wyddowes: let their hu?bodes be slayne, let their yonge men be kylled with the swearde in the felde.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Therefore, deliuer vp their children to famine, and let them drop away by the force of the sworde, and let their wiues be robbed of their children, and be widowes: and let their husbandes be put to death, and let their yong men be slayne by the sword in the battell.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Therfore, let their children dye of hunger, and let them be oppressed with the sworde: Let their wiues be robbed of their children, and become widowes, let their husbandes be slayne, let their young men be kylled with the sworde in the fielde.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their [blood] by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and [be] widows; and let their men be put to death; [let] their young men [be] slain by the sword in battle.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Therefore, give up their sons to famine, And cause them to run on the sides of the sword, And their wives are bereaved and widows, And their men are slain by death, Their young men smitten by sword in battle,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men smitten of the sword in battle.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 109:9-9 : 9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. 10 Let his children be continually wanderers and beg; let them seek their bread also from their desolate places. 11 Let the extortioner seize all that he has, and let strangers plunder his labor. 12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children. 13 Let his posterity be cut off; in the following generation let their name be blotted out. 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be wiped out. 15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth. 16 Because he did not remember to show mercy but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the brokenhearted. 17 As he loved cursing, so let it come to him; as he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him. 18 As he clothed himself with cursing as with a garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. 19 Let it be to him as the garment that covers him, and as a belt with which he is girded continually. 20 Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the LORD, and of those who speak evil against my soul.
• Jer 9:21 : 21 For death has climbed up into our windows, and has entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.
• Jer 15:8 : 8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noon: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
• Jer 16:3-4 : 3 For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who begot them in this land: 4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be mourned, nor shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth. They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, and their carcasses shall be food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.
• Exod 22:24 : 24 and my wrath shall grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.
• Deut 32:25 : 25 The sword outside, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the nursing child also with the man of gray hairs.
• Lam 5:3 : 3 We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.
• Amos 4:10 : 10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men I have slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stench of your camps to come up to your nostrils: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD.
• 2 Tim 4:14 : 14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm. May the Lord repay him according to his works.
• 2 Chr 36:17 : 17 Therefore, he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or young woman, old man, or aged; he gave them all into his hand.
• Jer 20:1-6 : 1 Now Pashur, the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things. 2 Then Pashur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD. 3 And it came to pass the next day, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, The LORD has not called your name Pashur, but Magor-missabib. 4 For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself, and to all your friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword. 5 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all its labors, and all its precious things, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, who shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon. 6 And you, Pashur, and all that dwell in your house shall go into captivity: and you shall come to Babylon, and there you shall die, and shall be buried there, you, and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied lies.
• Jer 20:11-12 : 11 But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten. 12 But, O LORD of hosts, who tests the righteous, and sees the reins and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for to you have I opened my cause.
• Jer 11:20-23 : 20 But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have presented my case to you. 21 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that you die not by our hand: 22 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine: 23 And there shall be no remnant of them, for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
• Jer 12:3 : 3 But You, O LORD, know me; You have seen me and tested my heart toward You. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
• Jer 15:2-3 : 2 And it shall come to pass, if they say to you, Where shall we go forth? then you shall tell them, Thus says the LORD; Those for death, to death; and those for the sword, to the sword; and those for the famine, to the famine; and those for the captivity, to the captivity. 3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, says the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.