Ezekiel 16:32

In 11 translations

BSB

You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband!

KJV

But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

WEB

“‘“Adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

ASV

A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!

LSV

The wife who commits adultery—Under her husband—receives strangers.

YLT

The wife who committeth adultery — Under her husband — doth receive strangers.

DBY

O adulterous wife, that taketh strangers instead of her husband.

DRC

But as an adulteress, that bringeth in strangers over her husband.

GNV

But as a wife that playeth the harlot, and taketh others for her husband:

JPS

Thou wife that committest adultery, that takest strangers instead of thy husband —

LXXE

An adulteress resembles thee, taking rewards of her husband.

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WLC

הָאִשָּׁ֖ה הַמְּנָאָ֑פֶת תַּ֣חַת אִישָׁ֔הּ תִּקַּ֖ח אֶת־זָרִֽים׃

LXX-Br

Ἡ γυνὴ ἡ μοιχωμένη ὁμοία σοι, παρὰ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς αὐτῆς λαμβάνουσα μισθώματα, πᾶσι τοῖς ἐκπορνεύσασαιν αὐτὴν προσεδίδου μισθώματα·

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Cross-references most cited first

• Jeremiah 2:28But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods are as numerous as your cities, O Judah.
• Jeremiah 2:25You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’
• Ezekiel 23:45But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of those who commit adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses with blood on their hands.
• Ezekiel 23:37For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to Me, in the fire as food for their idols.
• Hosea 2:2Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
• Jeremiah 3:8–9She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well. Indifferent to her own…
• 2 Corinthians 11:2–3I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be…
• Ezekiel 16:8Then I passed by and saw you, and you were indeed old enough for love. So I spread My cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares…
• Jeremiah 3:20But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.
• Hosea 3:1Then the LORD said to me, “Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and offer raisin cakes to idols.”
• Jeremiah 3:1“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers— and you would return to Me?”…

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