Parallel Verses

World English Bible

A wife who commits adultery! who takes 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!

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!

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 in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay. 32 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband! 33 They give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.

Cross References

Jeremiah 2:25

"Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.'

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, Judah.

Jeremiah 3:1

"They say, 'If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again?' Wouldn't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me," says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 3:8-9

I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn't fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.

Jeremiah 3:20

"Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel," says Yahweh.

Ezekiel 16:8

Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Yahweh, and you became mine.

Ezekiel 23:37

For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; and with their idols have they committed adultery; and they have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through [the fire] to them to be devoured.

Ezekiel 23:45

Righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

Hosea 2:2

Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

Hosea 3:1

Yahweh said to me, "Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins."

2 Corinthians 11:2-3

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

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