Ezekiel 16:33
They 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.
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In Context
32The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!
Cross References
Genesis 38:16And turning to her by the roadside, he said to her, Let me come in to you; for he had no idea that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What will you give me as my price?
Isaiah 30:3And the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and your hope in the shade of Egypt will come to nothing.
Isaiah 57:9And you went to Melech with oil and much perfume, and you sent your representatives far off, and went as low as the underworld.
Ezekiel 16:41And they will have you burned with fire, sending punishments on you before the eyes of great numbers of women; and I will put an end to your loose ways, and you will no longer give payment.
Hosea 8:9For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.
Joel 3:3\2:30\And I will let wonders be seen in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke.
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 →