Ezekiel 16:32 “You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband…”

Ezekiel 16:32

You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband!

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

World English Bible

“‘“Adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

American Standard Version

A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!

Geneva Bible 1599

But as a wife that playeth the harlot, and taketh others for her husband:

Darby Translation

O adulterous wife, that taketh strangers instead of her husband.

Young's Literal Translation

The wife who committeth adultery — Under her husband — doth receive strangers.

Bible in Basic English

The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

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Cross references

“But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!”

Jeremiah 2:28 Ezekiel 16:8 Ezekiel 23:37 Ezekiel 23:45 Jeremiah 2:25 Jeremiah 3:20

Jeremiah 2:28 · BSB

But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods are as numerous as your cities, O Judah.

Ezekiel 16:8 · BSB

Then I passed by and saw you, and you were indeed old enough for love. So I spread My cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares th…

Ezekiel 23:37 · BSB

For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to Me, in the fire as food for their idols.

Ezekiel 23:45 · BSB

But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of those who commit adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses with blood on their hands.

Jeremiah 2:25 · BSB

You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’

Jeremiah 3:20 · BSB

But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

31But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were not even like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

33Men give gifts to all their prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.

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