Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Thus they became unclean in their practices,
And played the harlot in their deeds.

King James Version

Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

Holman Bible

They defiled themselves by their actions
and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

International Standard Version

Therefore, they became unclean because of what they did; they have acted like whores by their evil deeds.

A Conservative Version

Thus they were defiled with their works, and played the harlot in their doings.

American Standard Version

Thus were they defiled with their works, And played the harlot in their doings.

Amplified


In this way they became unclean in their practices;
They played the prostitute in their own deeds [by giving their worship, which belongs to God alone, to other “gods”].

Bible in Basic English

So they became unclean through their works, going after their evil desires.

Darby Translation

And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings.

Julia Smith Translation

And they will be defiled with their works: and they will commit fornication in their doings.

King James 2000

Thus were they defiled with their own works, and played the harlot with their own deeds.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And they became unclean by their works, and were unfaithful in their deeds.

Modern King James verseion

And they were defiled with their works, and went lusting in their doings.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thus were they stained with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

NET Bible

They were defiled by their deeds, and unfaithful in their actions.

New Heart English Bible

Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.

The Emphasized Bible

And they became unclean by their works, and became unchaste in their doings.

Webster

Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went astray with their own inventions.

World English Bible

Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.

Youngs Literal Translation

And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
טמא 
Tame' 
Usage: 162

with their own works
מעשׂה 
Ma`aseh 
Usage: 234

and went a whoring
זנה 
Zanah 
Usage: 93

References

Morish

Context Readings

Praise To Yahweh For His Faithfulness In Israel's History

38 and shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood. 39 Thus they became unclean in their practices,
And played the harlot in their deeds.
40 Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

Cross References

Ezekiel 20:18

But I said unto their sons in the wilderness: Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither keep their laws, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

Leviticus 17:7

And they shall never again offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they fornicate. They shall have this as a perpetual statute throughout their ages.

Numbers 15:39

And it shall be unto you for a fringe that ye may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the LORD and do them and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, seeking after which ye fornicate.

Ezekiel 20:30-31

Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Perchance are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and do ye commit whoredom after their abominations?

Exodus 34:16

or take of their daughters unto thy sons, and when their daughters go fornicating after their gods they shall make thy sons also fornicate after their gods.

Leviticus 20:5-6

then I will set my face against that man and against his family and will cut him off with all those that fornicated after him, prostituting themselves after Molech.

Isaiah 24:5-6

The earth is also become bankrupt under its inhabitants because they have transgressed the laws, falsified the order, broken the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips pronounce lies; your tongue speaks evil.

Jeremiah 3:1-2

They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, shall he return unto her again? Is she not a land that is now completely polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, said the LORD.

Jeremiah 3:6-9

The LORD said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which rebellious Israel has done? She is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.

Ezekiel 16:15-63

But thou didst trust in thine own beauty and didst play the harlot because of thy renown and didst pour out thy fornications on every one that passed by; thou wert his.

Ezekiel 20:43

And there ye shall remember your ways and all your doings, in which ye have been defiled; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.

Ezekiel 23:3-49

And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

Hosea 9:1

Do not rejoice, O Israel, for joy, as the peoples; for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved the salary of a harlot upon every threshing floor.

Revelation 17:1-6

And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven vials and talked with me, saying unto me, Come here; I will show unto thee the condemnation of the great whore that sits upon many waters,

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