Parallel Verses
NET Bible
"'Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own 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!
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.
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 When you built your chamber at the head of every street and put up your pavilion in every public square, you were not like a prostitute, because you scoffed at payment. 32 "'Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband! 33 All prostitutes receive payment, but instead you give gifts to every one of your lovers. You bribe them to come to you from all around for your sexual favors!
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:25
Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. But you say, 'It is useless for you to try and stop me because I love those foreign gods and want to pursue them!'
Jeremiah 2:28
But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them save you when you are in trouble. The sad fact is that you have as many gods as you have towns, Judah.
Jeremiah 3:1
"If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, he may not take her back again. Doing that would utterly defile the land. But you, Israel, have given yourself as a prostitute to many gods. So what makes you think you can return to me?" says the Lord.
Jeremiah 3:8-9
She also saw that I gave wayward Israel her divorce papers and sent her away because of her adulterous worship of other gods. Even after her unfaithful sister Judah had seen this, she still was not afraid, and she too went and gave herself like a prostitute to other gods.
Jeremiah 3:20
But, you have been unfaithful to me, nation of Israel, like an unfaithful wife who has left her husband," says the Lord.
Ezekiel 16:8
"'Then I passed by you and watched you, noticing that you had reached the age for love. I spread my cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I swore a solemn oath to you and entered into a marriage covenant with you, declares the sovereign Lord, and you became mine.
Ezekiel 23:37
For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and their sons, whom they bore to me, they have passed through the fire as food to their idols.
Ezekiel 23:45
But upright men will punish them appropriately for their adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.
Hosea 2:2
Plead earnestly with your mother (for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband), so that she might put an end to her adulterous lifestyle, and turn away from her sexually immoral behavior.
Hosea 3:1
The Lord said to me, "Go, show love to your wife again, even though she loves another man and continually commits adultery. Likewise, the Lord loves the Israelites although they turn to other gods and love to offer raisin cakes to idols."
2 Corinthians 11:2-3
For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.