Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Like the adulterous wife, instead of her husband, she takes 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 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
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 in that you build your mound at the head of every way, and make your high place in every street. Yet you have not been as a harlot, scorning wages. 32 Like the adulterous wife, instead of her husband, she takes strangers. 33 They give a gift to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them to come to you from all around, for your fornication.
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:25
Withhold your foot from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, There is no hope; no; for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.
Jeremiah 2:28
But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble; for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah.
Jeremiah 3:1
They say, If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him and will be for another man, will he return to her again? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you play the harlot with many lovers; yet come back to Me, says Jehovah.
Jeremiah 3:8-9
And I saw, when for all the causes for which backsliding Israel committed adultery, I sent her away and gave a bill of divorce to her, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she went and whored, she also.
Jeremiah 3:20
Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says Jehovah.
Ezekiel 16:8
And I passed by you and looked on you, and, behold, your time was the time of love. And I spread my skirt over you and covered your nakedness. And I swore to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Jehovah. And you became Mine.
Ezekiel 23:37
that they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands? And they have committed adultery with their idols and have also caused their sons whom they bore to Me to pass through the fire to them, to devour them.
Ezekiel 23:45
And as righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
Hosea 2:2
Contend! Contend with your mother, for she is not my wife, nor am I her husband. Let her therefore put away her fornications out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts,
Hosea 3:1
And Jehovah said to me, Go again. Love a woman beloved by a friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of Jehovah toward the sons of Israel, who turn to other gods, and love raisin-cakes of grapes.
2 Corinthians 11:2-3
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy. For I have espoused you to one Man, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.