Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
A wife who committeth adultery, instead of her husband accepteth strangers.
New American Standard Bible
You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!
King James Version
But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
Holman Bible
You adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
International Standard Version
who commits adultery, preferring a stranger over her husband!
A Conservative Version
A wife who commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!
American Standard Version
A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!
Amplified
You adulterous wife, who welcomes and receives strangers instead of her husband!
Bible in Basic English
The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!
Darby Translation
O adulterous wife, that taketh strangers instead of her husband.
Julia Smith Translation
The wife committing adultery, instead of her husband she will take strangers
King James 2000
But as a wife that commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!
Lexham Expanded Bible
O, adulterous woman! In the place of her husband she received strangers.
Modern King James verseion
Like the adulterous wife, instead of her husband, she takes strangers.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
but as a wife that breaketh wedlock, and taketh other instead of her husband.
NET Bible
"'Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!
New Heart English Bible
"'A wife who commits adultery. who takes strangers instead of her husband.
Webster
But as a wife that committeth adultery, who taketh strangers instead of her husband!
World English Bible
A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!
Youngs Literal Translation
The wife who committeth adultery -- Under her husband -- doth receive strangers.
Themes
High places » The jews » Condemned for building
High places » Licentious practices at
Interlinear
Na'aph
Laqach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 16:32
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Covenant Grace To Unfaithful And Rebellious Israel
31 That thou couldst have but thy brothel at the head of every road, And thy height, couldst have made in every broadway,- Yet becamest not as harlot to lay claim to a harlots hire. 32 A wife who committeth adultery, instead of her husband accepteth strangers. 33 To all harlots, they give a present, But thou, didst give thy presents to all thy lovers, And didst bribe them to come in unto thee from every side in thine unchastity!
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:25
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, And thy throat from thirst! But thou saidst Hopeless! No! for I love foreigners and after them, will I go.
Jeremiah 2:28
Where then are thy gods which thou hast made for thyself? Let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy calamity, - For according to the number of thy cities, have become thy gods O Judah.
Jeremiah 3:1
He hath said, If a man send away his wife, and she go from him and become another man's, will he return unto her, again? would not that land be, utterly defiled? And, thou, hast been unchaste with many neighbours, and yet thinkest to return unto me! Declareth Yahweh.
Jeremiah 3:8-9
Though she saw that for all this, apostate Israel having committed adultery, I had sent her away, and had given a scroll of divorcement unto her, yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but, she also, went and committed unchastity.
Jeremiah 3:20
But indeed as a wife goeth treacherously from her husband, so, have ye acted treacherously with me, O house of Israel, Declareth Yahweh.
Ezekiel 16:8
And I passed by thee and looked upon thee and lo! thy time was the time for endearments, So I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy shame, And took an oath to thee And entered into covenant with thee. Declareth My Lord. Yahweh. And thou didst become mine.
Ezekiel 23:37
For they have committed adultery. And blood, is one their hands, Yea with their manufactured gods, have they committed adultery. And even their own children whom they bare unto me, have they set apart for them to be devoured.
Ezekiel 23:45
But righteous men, they, shall judge them, With the judgment of adulteresses, and With the judgment of women that shed blood, - Because adulteresses, they are And blood, is on their hands.
Hosea 2:2
Contend ye with your mother, contend, for she is no wife of mine, and I am no husband of hers, Let her then put away her paramours from before her, and her partners in adultery, from her embraces:
Hosea 3:1
Then said Yahweh unto me, Once more, go love a woman who loveth a friend, and is an adulteress, - according to the love of Yahweh unto the sons of Israel, though they keep turning away unto other gods, and love idolatrous raisin-cakes.
2 Corinthians 11:2-3
For I am jealous over you with a jealousy, of God; for I myself betrothed you unto one husband, to present, a chaste virgin, unto the Christ, -