Ezekiel 16:24

In 11 translations

BSB

you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square.

KJV

That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.eminent…: or, brothel house

WEB

“that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street.

ASV

that thou hast built unto thee a vaulted place, and hast made thee a lofty place in every street.

LSV

That you build an arch for yourself, || And make a high place for yourself in every broad place.

YLT

That thou dost build to thee an arch, And dost make to thee a high place in every broad place.

DBY

that thou didst also build unto thee a place of debauchery, and didst make thee a high place in every street:

DRC

That thou didst also build thee a common stew, and madest thee a brothel house in every street.

GNV

Thou hast also built vnto thee an hie place, and hast made thee an hie place in euery streete.

JPS

that thou hast built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee a lofty place in every street.

LXXE

that thou didst build thyself a house of fornication, and didst make thyself a public place in every street;

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WLC

וַתִּבְנִי־לָ֖ךְ גֶּ֑ב וַתַּעֲשִׂי־לָ֥ךְ רָמָ֖ה בְּכָל־רְחֽוֹב׃BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.

LXX-Br

καὶ ᾠκοδόμησας σεαυτῇ οἴκημα πορνικὸν, καὶ ἐποίησας σεαυτῇ ἔκθεμα ἐν πάσῃ πλατείᾳ,

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• Ezekiel 16:31But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were not even like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.
• Ezekiel 16:39Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will level your mounds and tear down your lofty shrines. They will strip off your clothes, take your fine jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.
• Psalms 78:58They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
• Jeremiah 2:20“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
• Isaiah 57:7On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.
• Ezekiel 20:28–29When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up their fragrant incense, and…
• Jeremiah 3:2“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with…
• 2 Kings 21:3–7For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.…
• Leviticus 26:30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.
• Jeremiah 17:3O My mountain in the countryside, I will give over your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, because of the sin of your high places, within all your borders.
• 2 Chronicles 33:3–7For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven. Manasseh also built altars in the…
• 2 Kings 23:11–12And he removed from the entrance to the house of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near the chamber of an official named Nathan-melech. And Josiah burned up…
• Isaiah 57:5who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
• 2 Kings 23:5–7Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem—those who had burned incense to Baal, to…

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