Ezekiel 16:33 “Men give gifts to all their prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all you…”

Ezekiel 16:33

Men 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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.

World English Bible

People give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.

American Standard Version

They give gifts to all harlots; but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and bribest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredoms.

Geneva Bible 1599

They giue giftes to all other whores, but thou giuest giftes vnto all thy louers, and rewardest them, that they may come vnto thee on euery side for thy fornication.

Darby Translation

They give rewards to all harlots; but thou gavest thy rewards to all thy lovers, and rewardedst them, that they might come unto thee on every side for thy whoredoms.

Young's Literal Translation

To all whores they give a gift, And — thou hast given thy gifts to all thy lovers, And dost bribe them to come in unto thee, From round about — in thy whoredoms.

Bible in Basic English

They give payment to all loose women: but you give rewards to your lovers, offering them payment so that they may come to you on every side for your cheap love.

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Cross references

“give”

Genesis 38:16–18 Hosea 2:12 Joel 3:3 Micah 1:7 Luke 15:30 Deuteronomy 23:17

Genesis 38:16–18 · BSB

Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “What will you give me for sleeping with you?” she inquired.

Hosea 2:12 · BSB

I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.

Joel 3:3 · BSB

They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.

Micah 1:7 · BSB

All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.

Luke 15:30 · BSB

But when this son of yours returns from squandering your wealth with prostitutes, you kill the fattened calf for him!’

Deuteronomy 23:17 · BSB

No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.

“but thou”

Isaiah 57:9 Isaiah 30:3 Isaiah 30:6 Isaiah 30:7 Hosea 8:9 Hosea 8:10

Isaiah 57:9 · BSB

You went to Molech with oil and multiplied your perfumes. You have sent your envoys a great distance; you have descended even to Sheol itself.

Isaiah 30:3 · BSB

But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace.

Isaiah 30:6 · BSB

This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the hu…

Isaiah 30:7 · BSB

Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.

Hosea 8:9 · BSB

For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.

Hosea 8:10 · BSB

Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.

Also

Ezekiel 16:41

Ezekiel 16:41 · BSB

Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will never again pay your lovers.

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

In context

32You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband!

34So your prostitution is the opposite of that of other women: No one solicited your favors, and you paid a fee instead of receiving one; so you are the very opposite!

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