Isaiah 57:8

And behind the door, and beyond the post, you have set up your memorial. For you uncovered yourself next to me, and you received an adulterer. You widened your bed, and you formed a pact with them. You loved their bed with an open hand.

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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

7Upon a high and lofty mountain, you have placed your bed, and you have ascended to that place to immolate victims.

9And you have adorned yourself for the king with ointments, and you have increased your cosmetics. You have sent your representatives to distant places, and you have debased yourself all the way to Hell.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 8:8And he said to me: “Son of man, dig in the wall.” And when I had dug in the wall, there appeared one door.

Ezekiel 16:32but instead like a woman who is an adulteress, who prefers strangers to her own husband.

Ezekiel 23:41You sat upon a very beautiful bed, and a table was adorned before you, on which you placed my incense and my ointment.

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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