Ezekiel 16:25

At the head of every road, didst thou build thy height, And bring thy beauty into disgust, And open thy feet to every passer-by, So didst thou make thine unchaste ways to abound.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.

In Context

24That thou didst build thee a brothel,— and didst make thee a height in every broadway:

26Then didst thou extend thine unchaste acts unto the sons of Egypt—thy neighbour great of flesh,- And caused thine unchaste ways to abound provoking me to anger.

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Cross References

Genesis 38:21So he asked the men of her place saying. Where is the devotee, she that was in Enaim, by the way? And they said,—There hath been here no devotee.

Isaiah 3:9The show of their face, hath answered against them, And their sin—like Sodom, have they told, they have not concealed it. Alas for their souls! For they have requited to themselves, calamity.

Jeremiah 3:2Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights and see—where thou hast not been unchastely embraced! beside the ways, hast thou sat to them, like the Arabian in the desert,—and hast defiled the land with thine unchastities, and with thy wickedness.

Jeremiah 6:15Were they led to turn pale because an abominable thing, they had done! Nay! they did not, at all turn pale, Nay! they did not so much as know how, to exhibit shame, Therefore, shall they fall among them who are falling, In the time when I punish them, shall they be overthrown, Saith Yahweh.

Ezekiel 16:31That thou couldst have built thy brothel at the head of every road, And thy height, couldst have made in every broadway,- Yet becamest not as a harlot to lay claim to a harlot’s hire.

Ezekiel 23:32Thus, saith My Lord Yahweh, The cup of thy sister, shalt thou drink, The cup deep and large, Thou shalt become a laughingstock and a derision, much doth it contain!

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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