Ezekiel 16:34 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁴ So you were different from other women in your prostitutions: no one solicited you to prostitute yourself, and you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; you were different.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁴ And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁴ And you are different [the reverse] from other women in your harlotries, in that nobody follows you to lure you into harlotry and in that you give hire when no hire is given you; and so you are different.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁴ And thou art different from other women in thy whoredoms, in that none followeth thee to play the harlot; and whereas thou givest hire, and no hire is given unto thee, therefore thou art different.

Common English Bible

³⁴ As a prostitute, you were more perverse than other women. No one approached you for sexual favors, but you yourself gave gifts instead of receiving them. You are perversion itself!

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁴ And it is done with you, in your fornications, contrary to the custom of women, and even after you, there will be no such fornication. For in as much as you have given payment, and not taken payment, what has been done in you is the contrary."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁴ And it hath happened in thee contrary to the custom of women in thy fornications, and after thee there shall be no such fornication: for in that thou gavest rewards and didst not take rewards, the contrary hath been done in thee.

Ezekiel 16:34 Cross References

Genesis 38:24

About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself; moreover, she is pregnant as a result of prostitution.” And Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”

Genesis 39:7

And after a time his master’s wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, “Lie with me.”

Ezekiel 16:33

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.

Ezekiel 16:35

Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the Lord:

Hosea 8:9

For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild ass wandering alone; Ephraim has bargained for lovers.