Ezekiel 16:32 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Adulterous wife who receives strangers instead of her husband! More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 but as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband! Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Rather, you were as an adulterous wife who receives strangers instead of her husband! American Standard Version (1901) A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband! Common English Bible You are like an adulterous wife: you take in strangers instead of your husband. Catholic Public Domain Version but instead like a woman who is an adulteress, who prefers strangers to her own husband. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But as an adulteress that bringeth in strangers over her husband. |
Keep your feet from going bare and your throat from thirst. But you said, “It is no use, for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.”
But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them come, if they can save you, in your time of trouble, for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.
If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? Would not such a land be greatly polluted? You have prostituted yourself with many lovers, and would you return to me? says the Lord.
Instead, as a faithless wife leaves her husband, so you have been faithless to me, O house of Israel, says the Lord.
building your platform at the head of every street and making your lofty place in every square! Yet you were not like a prostitute because you scorned payment.
Gifts are given to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from all around for your prostitutions.
I passed by you again and looked on you; you were at the age for love. I spread the edge of my cloak over you and covered your nakedness: I pledged myself to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God, and you became mine.
For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands; with their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.
But righteous judges shall declare them guilty of adultery and of bloodshed, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.
Plead with your mother, plead— for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband— that she put away her prostitution from her face and her adultery from between her breasts,
The Lord said to me again, “Go, love a woman who has a lover and is an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the people of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”
Adulterers! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.