A bad woman waits for you like a thief. And she causes many men to become sinners.
Proverbs 7:12 - Easy To Read Version She walked the streets. She went everywhere looking for trouble. 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. |
A bad woman waits for you like a thief. And she causes many men to become sinners.
He walked through the market place toward that bad woman’s corner and walked straight to her house.
She sits at the door of her house. She sits on her chair on the hill in the city.
“Judah, a long time ago you threw off\par your yoke.\par You broke the ropes\par \{that I used to control you\}.\par You said to me,\par ‘I will not serve you!’\par You were like a prostitute\par on every high hill\par and under every green tree. {\cf2\super [11]} \par
“Judah, you really know how\par to chase after lovers (false gods).\par You have really learned to do evil things.\par
It is so easy for you to change your mind.\par Assyria disappointed you,\par \{so you left Assyria\par and went to Egypt for help.\}\par But Egypt will also disappoint you.\par
“Look up to the bare hilltops, Judah.\par Is there any place where you have not\par had sex with your lovers (false gods)?\par You have sat by the road waiting for lovers,\par like an Arab waiting in the desert.\par You made the land ‘dirty’!\par How? You did many bad things\par and you were unfaithful to me.\par
\{God said,\} “But you were not exactly like a prostitute. {\cf2\super [126]} You built your mounds at the head of every road and you built your places of worship at every street corner. You had sex with all those men. But you did not ask them to pay you like a prostitute does.
The light of a lamp will never\par shine in you again.\par The voices of a bridegroom {\cf2\super [140]} and bride\par will never be heard in you again.\par Your merchants {\cf2\super [141]} were the world’s\par great people.\par All the nations were tricked by your magic.\par
All the peoples of the earth have drunk\par the wine of her sexual sin\par and of \{God’s\} anger.\par The rulers of the earth sinned sexually\par with her,\par and the merchants {\cf2\super [130]} of the world\par grew rich from the great wealth\par of her luxury.”\par