Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And she will desire after them at the sight of her eyes, and she will send messengers to them to Chaldea.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
Holman Bible
At the sight of them
International Standard Version
"She lusted after them when she saw them, so she sent messengers to summon them from Chaldea.
A Conservative Version
And as soon as she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
American Standard Version
And as soon as she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
Amplified
When she saw [the sketches of] them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
Bible in Basic English
And when she saw them she was full of desire for them, and sent servants to them in Chaldaea.
Darby Translation
And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she lusted after them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
King James 2000
And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And she lusted for them {when her eyes saw them}, and she sent messengers to them [at] Chaldea.
Modern King James verseion
and she lusted after them, to the sight of her eyes, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
immediately, as soon as she saw them, she burnt in love upon them, and sent messengers for them into the land of the Chaldeans.
NET Bible
When she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
New Heart English Bible
As soon as she saw them she doted on them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
The Emphasized Bible
Then lusted she after them, as soon as her eyes beheld them, - And she sent messengers unto them to Chaldea.
Webster
And as soon as she saw them with her eyes she doted upon them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
World English Bible
As soon as she saw them she doted on them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
Youngs Literal Translation
And she doteth on them at the sight of her eyes, And sendeth messengers to them, to Chaldea.
Interlinear
Mar'eh
`ayin
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 23:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Oholah And Oholibah As Symbols Of God's Corrupt People
15 Girding girdles upon their loins, a superfluity of dippings upon their heads, the appearance of third men all of them, the likeness of the sons of Babel of Chaldea, the land of their birth. 16 And she will desire after them at the sight of her eyes, and she will send messengers to them to Chaldea. 17 And the sons of Babel will come to her to the bed of loves, and defile her with their fornications, and she will be defiled with them, and her soul will be rent away from them.
Phrases
Cross References
Ezekiel 16:29
And thou wilt multiply thy fornination at the land of Canaan with the Chaldeans, and also thou wert not satisfied with this,
Matthew 5:28
But I say to you, That every one seeing a woman, to eagerly desire her, has already committed adultery with her, in his heart.
Genesis 3:6
And the woman will see that the tree is good for food, and that it is a desire to the eyes, and a tree desired to make wise; and she will take from its fruit and will eat, and will give also to her man with her, and he will eat
Genesis 6:2
And the sons of God will see the daughters of Adam that they are good, and they will take to them wives of all which they chose.
Genesis 39:7
And it will be after these words, and his lord's wife will lift up her eyes to Joseph, and she will say, Lie with me.
2 Samuel 11:2
And it will be at the time of the evening, and David will rise from off his bed, and will go upon the roof of the king's house: and he will see from the roof a woman washing herself; and the woman good of aspect exceedingly.
2 Kings 24:1
In his days came up Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, and Jehoiakim will be to him a servant three years: and he will turn back and rebel against him.
Job 31:1
I cut out a covenant for mine eyes; and why shall I show myself attentive to a virgin?
Psalm 119:37
Cause mine eyes to pass from seeing vanity; make me live in thy way.
Proverbs 6:25
Thou shalt not desire her beauty in thy heart, and she shall not take thee with her eyelashes.
Proverbs 23:33
Thine eyes shall see strange women, and thy heart shall speak perverseness.
Ezekiel 16:17
And thou wilt take all thy ornaments from my gold and from my silver, which I gave to thee, and thou wilt make to thee images of a male and commit fornication with them.
Ezekiel 23:40-41
And also that ye will send to men coming from far off, whom a messenger was sent to them, and behold, they came: for whom thou didst wash, thou paintedst thine eyes, and thou didst deck with ornaments.
2 Peter 2:14
Having eyes full of an adulteress, not ceasing from sin; decoying unstable souls: having a heart exercised with covetousness; children of a curse: