Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

She is now in the streets, now in the squares,
And lurks by every corner.

King James Version

Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

Holman Bible

Now in the street, now in the squares,
she lurks at every corner.

International Standard Version

Now she is in the street, now in the plazas, she lurks near every corner.

A Conservative Version

Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lays in wait at every corner.

American Standard Version

Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.

Amplified


At times she was in the streets, at times in the market places,
Lurking and setting her ambush at every corner.

Bible in Basic English

Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.

Darby Translation

now without, now in the broadways, and she lieth in wait at every corner.

Julia Smith Translation

One time without, one time in the broad ways; and she will lie in wait near every corner.

King James 2000

Now is she outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.)

Lexham Expanded Bible

Now in the street, now in the square, {at} every corner she lies in wait.

Modern King James verseion

now she is outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Now is she without, now in the streets, and lurketh in every corner.

NET Bible

at one time outside, at another in the wide plazas, and by every corner she lies in wait.)

New Heart English Bible

Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

The Emphasized Bible

Now outside, now in the broadways, and, near every corner, she lieth in wait:

Webster

Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

World English Bible

Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

Youngs Literal Translation

Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) --

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Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Now
פּעמה פּעם 
Pa`am 
Usage: 118

חץ חוּץ 
Chuwts 
Usage: 164

now
פּעמה פּעם 
Pa`am 
Usage: 118

in the streets
רחוב רחב 
R@chob 
Usage: 43

and lieth in wait
ארב 
'arab 
Usage: 42

at
אצל 
'etsel 
by, beside, by ..., near, at, with ..., from ..., against, close, to, toward, unto, with
Usage: 61

References

Easton

Fausets

Context Readings

A Story Of Seduction

11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet do not abide in her house: 12 She is now in the streets, now in the squares,
And lurks by every corner.
13 So she caught him and kissed him and with an impudent face said unto him,

Cross References

Proverbs 23:28

She also lies in wait as for a prey and increases the transgressors among men.

Proverbs 9:14

For she sits at the door of her house on a seat in the high places of the city

Jeremiah 2:20

For of old time I have broken thy yoke and burst thy bands; and thou didst say, I will not serve sin. With all this, upon every high hill and under every green tree thou dost wander, playing the harlot.

Jeremiah 2:33

Why dost thou trim thy way to seek love? therefore thou hast also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

Jeremiah 2:36

Why dost thou talk so much, changing thy ways? Thou shalt also be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.

Jeremiah 3:2

Lift up thine eyes unto the high places and see if there is anywhere thou hast not been ravished. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

Ezekiel 16:24-25

that thou hast also built unto thee a high place and hast made thee an altar in every street.

Ezekiel 16:31

building thine altars at the head of every way and making thine altars in every street! And thou hast not been as a harlot in that thou scornest hire,

Revelation 18:3

For all the Gentiles have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the power of her delicacies.

Revelation 18:23

and the light of a lamp shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the princes of the earth in whose witchcraft all the Gentiles have erred.

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