Isaiah 57:8

And on the back of the doors and on the pillars you have put your sign: for you have been false to me with another; you have made your bed wide, and made an agreement with them; you had a desire for their bed where you saw it

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.

In Context

7You have put your bed on a high mountain: there you went up to make your offering.

9And you went to Melech with oil and much perfume, and you sent your representatives far off, and went as low as the underworld.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 8:8And he said to me, Son of man, make a hole in the wall: and after making a hole in the wall I saw a door.

Ezekiel 16:32The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

Ezekiel 23:41And she took her seat on a great bed, with a table put ready before it on which she put my perfume and my oil.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 57:4-13

A Charge against the People. ( b. c. 706.) 3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. 4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood, 5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? 6 Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou… Read the whole commentary →

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