Proverbs 7:12

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

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

Cross References

Proverbs 23:28

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

Proverbs 7:8

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

Proverbs 9:14

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

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 played the whore.

Jeremiah 2:33

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

Jeremiah 2:36

How lightly you gad about, changing your ways! You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria.

Jeremiah 3:2

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

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 whore, because you scorned payment.

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.

Revelation 18:3

For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxury.”