Proverbs 7:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² now in the street, now in the squares, and at every corner she lies in wait.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Now is she without, now in the streets, And lieth in wait at every corner.)

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Now in the streets, now in the marketplaces, she sets her ambush at every corner.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.)

Common English Bible

¹² She has one foot in the street, one foot in the public square. She lies in wait at every corner.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² now outside, now in the streets, now lying in ambush near the corners.

Proverbs 7:12 Cross References

Proverbs 23:28

She lies in wait like a robber and increases the number of the faithless.

Proverbs 9:14

She sits at the door of her house, on a seat at the high places of the town,

Revelation 18:3

For all the nations have fallen from the wine of the wrath of her prostitution, and the kings of the earth have engaged in sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxury.”

Revelation 18:23

and the light of a lamp will shine in you no more, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will be heard in you no more, for your merchants were the magnates of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your sorcery.

Ezekiel 16:31

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.

Jeremiah 3:2

Look up to the bare heights and see! Where have you not been lain with? By the waysides you sat waiting for lovers, like a nomad in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitutions and wickedness.

Jeremiah 2:36

Why do you go about so much to change your way? You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria.

Jeremiah 2:33

How well you direct your course to seek lovers! So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways.

Jeremiah 2:20

For long ago you broke your yoke and burst your bonds, and you said, “I will not serve!” On every high hill and under every green tree you sprawled and prostituted yourself.

Proverbs 7:8

passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house