Parallel Verses
King James Version
But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
New American Standard Bible
You adulteress wife, who takes 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.
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.
Themes
High places » The jews » Condemned for building
High places » Licentious practices at
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 16:32
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Covenant Grace To Unfaithful And Rebellious Israel
31 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire; 32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband! 33 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:25
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
Jeremiah 2:28
But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
Jeremiah 3:1
They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 3:8-9
And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
Jeremiah 3:20
Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
Ezekiel 16:8
Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
Ezekiel 23:37
That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
Ezekiel 23:45
And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
Hosea 2:2
Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
Hosea 3:1
Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
2 Corinthians 11:2-3
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.