Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

You adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!

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!

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.

The Emphasized Bible

A wife who committeth adultery, instead of her husband accepteth strangers.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
But as a wife
נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

לקח 
Laqach 
Usage: 966

References

Easton

Fausets

Morish

Context Readings

God's Covenant Grace To Unfaithful And Rebellious Israel

31 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. 32 You adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband! 33 Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from all around for your sexual favors.



Cross References

Jeremiah 2:25

Keep your feet from going bare
and your throat from thirst.
But you say, “It’s hopeless;
I love strangers,
and I will continue to follow them.”

Jeremiah 2:28

But where are your gods you made for yourself?
Let them rise up and save you
in your time of disaster if they can,
for your gods are as numerous as your cities, Judah.

Jeremiah 3:1

If a man divorces his wife
and she leaves him to marry another,
can he ever return to her?
Wouldn’t such a land become totally defiled?
But you!
You have played the prostitute with many partners
can you return to Me?
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Jeremiah 3:8-9

I observed that it was because unfaithful Israel had committed adultery that I had sent her away and had given her a certificate of divorce. Nevertheless, her treacherous sister Judah was not afraid but also went and prostituted herself.

Jeremiah 3:20

However, as a woman may betray her lover,
so you have betrayed Me, house of Israel.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Ezekiel 16:8

“Then I passed by you and saw you, and you were indeed at the age for love. So I spread the edge of My garment over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Ezekiel 23:37

For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands; they have committed adultery with their idols. They have even made the children they bore to Me pass through the fire as food for the idols.

Ezekiel 23:45

But righteous men will judge them the way adulteresses and those who shed blood are judged, for they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.

Hosea 2:2

Rebuke your mother; rebuke her.
For she is not My wife and I am not her husband.
Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face
and her adultery from between her breasts.

Hosea 3:1

Then the Lord said to me, “Go again; show love to a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the Israelites though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”

2 Corinthians 11:2-3

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy, because I have promised you in marriage to one husband—to present a pure virgin to Christ.

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