Ezekiel 16:31

For you have made your arched room at the top of every street, and your high place in every open place; though you were not like a loose woman in getting together your payment.

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In The King James Version

In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;

In Context

30How feeble is your heart, says the Lord, seeing that you do all these things, the work of a loose and overruling woman;

32The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

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Cross References

Isaiah 52:3For the Lord says, You were given for nothing, and you will be made free without price.

Ezekiel 16:33They give payment to all loose women: but you give rewards to your lovers, offering them payment so that they may come to you on every side for your cheap love.

Ezekiel 20:29Then I said to them, What is this high place where you go to no purpose? And it is named Bamah to this day.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 16:16-35

Ingratitude of Israel; Shameful Idolatry of Israel. ( b. c. 593.) 15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was. 16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. 17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest… Read the whole commentary →

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