Ezekiel 16:31

In your building your arch at the head of every way, || You have made your high place in every broad place, || And have not been as a whore deriding a wage.

Literal Standard Version

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 weak [is] your heart, || A declaration of Lord YHWH, || In your doing all these, || The work of a domineering, whorish woman.

32The wife who commits adultery—Under her husband—receives strangers.

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Cross References

Isaiah 52:3For thus said YHWH: “You have been sold for nothing, || And you are redeemed without money.”

Ezekiel 16:33They give a gift to all whores, || And you have given your gifts to all your lovers, || And bribe them to come in to you, || From all around—in your whoredoms.

Ezekiel 20:29And I say to them: What [is] the high place to where you are going in?” And its name is called “High Place” 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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