Proverbs 7:12 - The Scriptures 1998

¹² Now in the street, Now in the square, And at every corner she lurks.

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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 too lies in wait as for a prey, And increases the treacherous among men.

Proverbs 7:8

Passing through the street near her corner; And he went the way to her house

Proverbs 9:14

For she has seated herself At the door of her house, On a seat by the highest places of the city,

Jeremiah 2:20

“For of old you have broken your yoke and tore of your bonds. And you said, ‘I am not serving You,’ when on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down, a whore.

Jeremiah 2:33

“Why do you embellish your way to seek love? Therefore you have even taught the evil women your ways.

Jeremiah 2:36

“Why do you go about so much to change your way? Even of Mitsrayim you are to be ashamed, as you were ashamed of Ashshur.

Jeremiah 3:2

“Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see: where have you not lain with men? Besides the ways you have sat for them like an Araḇ

Ezekiel 16:31

“You built your arched place at the head of every way, and built your high place in every street. Yet you were unlike a whore, you scorned payment!

Revelation 18:23

“And the light of a lamp shall not shine in you any more at all. And the voice of bridegroom and bride shall not be heard in you any more at all. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, for by your drug sorcery all the nations were led astray.

Revelation 18:3

because all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her whoring, and the sovereigns of the earth have committed whoring with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the power of her riotous living.”