Isaiah 57:8 “Behind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking…”

Isaiah 57:8

Behind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; you climbed up and opened it wide. And you have made a pact with those whose bed you have loved; you have gazed upon their nakedness.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

You have set up your memorial behind the doors and the posts, for you have exposed yourself to someone besides me, and have gone up. You have enlarged your bed and made you a covenant with them. You loved what you saw on their bed.

American Standard Version

And behind the doors and the posts hast thou set up thy memorial: for thou hast uncovered 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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Behinde the doores also and postes hast thou set vp thy remembrance: for thou hast discouered thy selfe to another then me, and wentest vp, and diddest enlarge thy bed, and make a couenant betweene thee and them, and louedst their bed in euery place where thou sawest it.

Darby Translation

Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for apart from me, thou hast uncovered thyself, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and hast made agreement with them; thou lovedst their bed, thou sawest their nakedness.

Young's Literal Translation

And behind the door, and the post, Thou hast set up thy memorial, For from Me thou hast removed, and goest up, Thou hast enlarged thy couch, And dost covenant for thyself among them, Thou hast loved their couch, the station thou sawest,

Bible in Basic English

And on the back of the doors and on the pillars you have put your sign: for you have been false to me with another; you have made your bed wide, and made an agreement with them; you had a desire for their bed where you saw it

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Cross references

“the doors”

Ezekiel 8:8–12 Ezekiel 23:41 Ezekiel 23:14

Ezekiel 8:8–12 · BSB

“Son of man,” He told me, “dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall and discovered a doorway.

Ezekiel 23:41 · BSB

You sat on a couch of luxury with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil,

Ezekiel 23:14 · BSB

But Oholibah carried her prostitution even further. She saw the men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion,

“for”

Ezekiel 16:32

Ezekiel 16:32 · BSB

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

“thou lovedst”

Ezekiel 16:25–28 Ezekiel 23:2–20

Ezekiel 16:25–28 · BSB

At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by.

Ezekiel 23:2–20 · BSB

“Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother,

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

In context

7On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.

9You went to Molech with oil and multiplied your perfumes. You have sent your envoys a great distance; you have descended even to Sheol itself.

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