indeed, she sets an ambush like a robber and increases the number of unfaithful people.
Proverbs 7:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Now is she without, now in the streets, And lieth in wait at every corner.) Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Now in the streets, now in the marketplaces, she sets her ambush at every corner. American Standard Version (1901) Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.) Common English Bible She has one foot in the street, one foot in the public square. She lies in wait at every corner. Catholic Public Domain Version now outside, now in the streets, now lying in ambush near the corners. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners. |
indeed, she sets an ambush like a robber and increases the number of unfaithful people.
Crossing the street near her corner, he strolled down the road to her house
She sits by the doorway of her house, on a seat at the highest point of the city,
For long ago I broke your yoke; I tore off your chains. You insisted, ‘I will not serve! ’ On every high hill and under every green tree you lay down like a prostitute.
How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be put to shame by Egypt just as you were put to shame by Assyria.
Look to the barren heights and see. Where have you not been immoral? You sat waiting for them beside the roads like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
building your mound at the head of every street and making your elevated place in every square. But you were unlike a prostitute because you scorned payment.
the light of a lamp will never shine in you again; and the voice of a groom and bride will never be heard in you again. All this will happen because your merchants were the nobility of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.
For all the nations have drunk the wine of her sexual immorality, which brings wrath. The kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from her sensuality and excess.