Parallel Verses
- Amplified Bible - My people consult their [lifeless] wooden idol, and their [diviner’s] wand gives them oracles. For a spirit of prostitution has led them astray [morally and spiritually], And they have played the prostitute, withdrawing themselves from their God.
- 新标点和合本 - 我的民求问木偶， 以为木杖能指示他们； 因为他们的淫心使他们失迷， 他们就行淫离弃 神， 不守约束，
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 我的百姓求问木偶， 以为木杖能指示他们； 淫乱的心使他们失迷， 以致行淫离弃他们的上帝，
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 我的百姓求问木偶， 以为木杖能指示他们； 淫乱的心使他们失迷， 以致行淫离弃他们的 神，
- 当代译本 - “我的子民祈求木头， 随从木杖的指引。 淫乱的心使他们走入歧途， 他们不忠不贞，背弃他们的上帝。
- 圣经新译本 - 我的子民求问木头，由木杖引导他们， 因为淫荡的灵使他们走迷了路， 他们就行淫不顺从 神。
- 现代标点和合本 - 我的民求问木偶， 以为木杖能指示他们。 因为他们的淫心使他们失迷， 他们就行淫离弃神， 不守约束。
- 和合本（拼音版） - 我的民求问木偶， 以为木杖能指示他们， 因为他们的淫心使他们失迷， 他们就行淫离弃上帝， 不守约束。
- New International Version - My people consult a wooden idol, and a diviner’s rod speaks to them. A spirit of prostitution leads them astray; they are unfaithful to their God.
- New International Reader's Version - My people ask a wooden statue of a god for advice. They get answers from a stick of wood. They are as unfaithful as prostitutes. They are not faithful to their God.
- English Standard Version - My people inquire of a piece of wood, and their walking staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray, and they have left their God to play the whore.
- New Living Translation - They ask a piece of wood for advice! They think a stick can tell them the future! Longing after idols has made them foolish. They have played the prostitute, serving other gods and deserting their God.
- Christian Standard Bible - My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of promiscuity leads them astray; they act promiscuously in disobedience to their God.
- New American Standard Bible - My people consult their wooden idol, and their diviner’s wand informs them; For a spirit of infidelity has led them astray, And they have been unfaithful, departing from their God.
- New King James Version - My people ask counsel from their wooden idols, And their staff informs them. For the spirit of harlotry has caused them to stray, And they have played the harlot against their God.
- American Standard Version - My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredom hath caused them to err, and they have played the harlot, departing from under their God.
- King James Version - My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
- New English Translation - They consult their wooden idols, and their diviner’s staff answers with an oracle. The wind of prostitution blows them astray; they commit spiritual adultery against their God.
- World English Bible - My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.
- 新標點和合本 - 我的民求問木偶， 以為木杖能指示他們； 因為他們的淫心使他們失迷， 他們就行淫離棄神， 不守約束，
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 我的百姓求問木偶， 以為木杖能指示他們； 淫亂的心使他們失迷， 以致行淫離棄他們的上帝，
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 我的百姓求問木偶， 以為木杖能指示他們； 淫亂的心使他們失迷， 以致行淫離棄他們的 神，
- 當代譯本 - 「我的子民祈求木頭， 隨從木杖的指引。 淫亂的心使他們走入歧途， 他們不忠不貞，背棄他們的上帝。
- 聖經新譯本 - 我的子民求問木頭，由木杖引導他們， 因為淫蕩的靈使他們走迷了路， 他們就行淫不順從 神。
- 呂振中譯本 - 他 們 求問着木頭， 其指揮棍就指示他們； 因為行淫的心 使他們失迷， 他們就行淫、離棄了他們的上帝、 不肯在他手下。
- 現代標點和合本 - 我的民求問木偶， 以為木杖能指示他們。 因為他們的淫心使他們失迷， 他們就行淫離棄神， 不守約束。
- 文理和合譯本 - 我民諮詢於木、藉杖示之、彼為淫心所迷、狥欲離其上帝之制、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 我民縱欲、棄我上帝、厥心昏昧、問偶像、卜以籤、望其應對、
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 我民諮諏木偶、以為其杖能指示未來事、被淫心迷惑、 被淫心迷惑或作因其心被邪淫迷惑 皆棄其天主、從偶像、 偶像或作邪淫
- Nueva Versión Internacional - Mi pueblo consulta a su ídolo de madera, y ese pedazo de palo le responde; su tendencia a prostituirse los descarría; se prostituyen en abierto desafío a su Dios.
- 현대인의 성경 - 그들이 나무 우상에게 묻고 그 나무 막대기는 그들이 알고 싶어하는 것을 말해 준다. 그들은 음란한 정신에 미혹되어 창녀짓을 하고 그들의 하나님을 떠났다.
- Новый Русский Перевод - у Моего народа. Они просят совета у деревяшки, и палка дает им ответ. Дух разврата сбил их с пути. Занимаясь развратом, они отдалились от своего Бога.
- Восточный перевод - у Моего народа. Они просят совета у деревяшки, и палка даёт им ответ. Они сбились с пути, следуя за ложными богами, и, развратившись, отдалились от своего Бога.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - у Моего народа. Они просят совета у деревяшки, и палка даёт им ответ. Они сбились с пути, следуя за ложными богами, и, развратившись, отдалились от своего Бога.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - у Моего народа. Они просят совета у деревяшки, и палка даёт им ответ. Они сбились с пути, следуя за ложными богами, и, развратившись, отдалились от своего Бога.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Ce sont ses dieux de bois ╵que mon peuple consulte, et voilà que c’est son bâton ╵qui lui répond. Car un vent de prostitution ╵les fait errer, ils s’égarent loin de leur Dieu ╵en se prostituant .
- リビングバイブル - 驚いたことに、彼らは木片に向かって、 自分はどうしたらよいかと尋ねている。 神の真理を占いによって知るというのだ。 偶像を恋い慕ううちに、彼らは愚か者になってしまった。 遊女のようにふるまって他の神々に仕え、 わたしを捨ててしまった。
- Nova Versão Internacional - Eles pedem conselhos a um ídolo de madeira, e de um pedaço de pau recebem resposta. Um espírito de prostituição os leva a desviar-se; eles são infiéis ao seu Deus.
- Hoffnung für alle - Mein Volk holt sich Rat bei Götzenbildern aus Holz. Sie erwarten Auskunft und Hilfe, indem sie mit Stäben das Orakel befragen. Besessen von ihrer Hurerei und Treulosigkeit, sind sie auf Abwege geraten; von mir, ihrem Gott, wollen sie nichts mehr wissen.
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Chúng cầu vấn thần tượng bằng gỗ! Chúng nghĩ một cây que có thể nói về tương lai! Thờ lạy thần tượng lâu ngày đã khiến chúng ngu muội. Chúng buông mình hành dâm, thờ lạy các thần khác và lìa bỏ Đức Chúa Trời của chúng.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ประชากรของเราไปปรึกษารูปเคารพไม้ อาศัยคำตอบจากไม้เสี่ยงโชค วิญญาณแห่งการเป็นโสเภณีชักนำเขาให้หลงเตลิด เขาไม่ซื่อสัตย์ต่อพระเจ้าของเขา
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ชนชาติของเราปรึกษากับท่อนไม้ และพวกเขาใช้ไม้เท้าเพื่อหาคำตอบ เพราะวิญญาณของความแพศยาได้นำพวกเขาให้หลงผิด พวกเขาจึงได้ละไปจากพระเจ้าของพวกเขา และกระทำตนเป็นแพศยา
Cross Reference
- Ezekiel 21:21 - For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the fork of the two ways, to use divination. He shakes the arrows, he consults the teraphim (household idols), he looks at the liver [of an animal for an omen].
- Leviticus 20:5 - then I shall set My face against that man and against his [extended] family, and I will cut off from their people both him and all who follow him in playing the prostitute (commit apostasy) with Molech.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:9 - The coming of the [Antichrist, the lawless] one is through the activity of Satan, [attended] with great power [all kinds of counterfeit miracles] and [deceptive] signs and false wonders [all of them lies],
- 2 Thessalonians 2:10 - and by unlimited seduction to evil and with all the deception of wickedness for those who are perishing, because they did not welcome the love of the truth [of the gospel] so as to be saved [they were spiritually blind, and rejected the truth that would have saved them].
- 2 Thessalonians 2:11 - Because of this God will send upon them a misleading influence, [an activity of error and deception] so they will believe the lie,
- Jeremiah 10:8 - But they are altogether irrational and stupid and foolish In their discipline of delusion—their idol is [only] wood [it is ridiculous, empty and worthless]!
- 2 Chronicles 21:13 - but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to be unfaithful [to God] as the house of Ahab was unfaithful, and you have also murdered your brothers, your father’s house (your own family), who were better than you,
- Ezekiel 16:1 - Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 16:2 - “Son of man, make Jerusalem understand [the heinous and vile nature of] her repulsive (idolatrous) acts
- Ezekiel 16:3 - and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem (all of Israel), “Your [spiritual] origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite; your [spiritual] father was an Amorite and your [spiritual] mother a Hittite.
- Ezekiel 16:4 - And as for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing, nor were you rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths.
- Ezekiel 16:5 - No eye looked with pity on you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown out in the open field, for you were loathed on the day that you were born.
- Ezekiel 16:6 - “When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your [newborn] blood, I said to you while you were there in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you while you were there in your blood, ‘Live!’
- Ezekiel 16:7 - I made you (Israel) multiply like plants [which grow] in the field, and you grew up and became tall and you reached the age for [wearing] fine jewelry; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown, yet you were naked and bare.
- Ezekiel 16:8 - “Then I passed by you [again] and looked on you; behold, you were maturing and at the time for love, and I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore [an oath] to you and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord God, “and you became Mine.”
- Ezekiel 16:9 - “Then I washed you with water; yes, I [thoroughly] washed away from you the [clinging] blood and anointed you with oil.
- Ezekiel 16:10 - I also clothed you with embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk.
- Ezekiel 16:11 - I adorned you with ornaments and I put bracelets on your wrists and a necklace around your neck.
- Ezekiel 16:12 - I also put a ring in your nostril and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.
- Ezekiel 16:13 - Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your dress was [made] of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil; so you were extremely beautiful and you advanced and prospered into royalty.
- Ezekiel 16:14 - Then your fame went out among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My majesty and splendor which I bestowed on you,” says the Lord God.
- Ezekiel 16:15 - “But you trusted in and relied on your beauty and prostituted yourself [in idolatry and its debauched rituals] because of your fame, and you poured out your immoralities on every [willing] passer-by and your beauty was his [as you worshiped the idols of the Gentile nations].
- Ezekiel 16:16 - You took some of your clothes and made for yourself [decorated] high places and shrines of various colors and prostituted yourself on them—things which should never have come about and taken place.
- Ezekiel 16:17 - You also took your beautiful jewels and beautiful vessels made of My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men so that you could prostitute yourself with them;
- Ezekiel 16:18 - and you took your embroidered clothing and covered them, and offered My oil and My incense before them.
- Ezekiel 16:19 - Also My bread which I gave you, [made from the] fine flour and oil and honey with which I fed you, you even offered it before idols [no better than cow dung] as a sweet and soothing aroma; so it happened,” says the Lord God.
- Ezekiel 16:20 - “Moreover, you took your sons and your daughters whom you had borne to Me, and you destroyed them as sacrifices [to your man-made gods]. Were your gross immoralities so small a matter?
- Ezekiel 16:21 - You slaughtered My children and offered them up to [worthless] idols, forcing them to pass through the [hideousness of the] fire.
- Ezekiel 16:22 - And in all your repulsive acts and prostitutions (idolatrous immoralities) you did not [pause to] remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, squirming in your [newborn] blood.
- Ezekiel 16:23 - “Then it came about after all your wickedness (‘Woe, woe to you!’ says the Lord God),
- Ezekiel 16:24 - that you built yourself an altar for prostitution and made yourself a high place [for ritual prostitution] in every square [of Jerusalem].
- Ezekiel 16:25 - At the beginning of every street you built your high place and made your beauty repulsive; and you offered your body to every passer-by and multiplied your obscene immorality.
- Ezekiel 16:26 - You also prostituted yourself with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors [by embracing their pagan rituals], and you multiplied your obscene immorality to provoke Me to anger.
- Ezekiel 16:27 - Behold now [listen very carefully], I have stretched out My hand against you, reduced your portion, and handed you over to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your infamous behavior.
- Ezekiel 16:28 - You prostituted yourself with the Assyrians because you were not satisfied; you prostituted yourself with them and still were not satisfied.
- Ezekiel 16:29 - Moreover, you increased your obscene immorality with the land of tradesmen, Chaldea (Babylonia), and yet even with this you were not satisfied.” ’ ”
- Ezekiel 16:30 - “How weakened by longing and lust is your heart (mind),” says the Lord God, “while you do all these things, the actions of a bold and brazen prostitute.
- Ezekiel 16:31 - When you built your shrine altar for prostitution at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every public square, you were not like a prostitute because you refused payment.
- Ezekiel 16:32 - You adulterous wife, who welcomes and receives strangers instead of her husband!
- Ezekiel 16:33 - Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, bribing the pagan nations to come to you [as allies] from every direction for your obscene immoralities.
- Ezekiel 16:34 - And you are different from other [unfaithful] women in your promiscuity, in that no one follows you to lure you into prostitution, and because you give money and no money is given you; in this way you are different.”
- Ezekiel 16:35 - Therefore, O prostitute [Israel], hear the word of the Lord.
- Ezekiel 16:36 - Thus says the Lord God, “Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your obscene immoralities with your lovers (pagan allies), and with all your [repulsive] idols, and because of the blood of your sons that you gave to them,
- Ezekiel 16:37 - therefore, listen, I will gather all your lovers (pagan allies) with whom you took pleasure, and all those whom you loved with all those whom you hated; I will even gather them against you from every direction and will expose your nakedness to them that they may see all your nakedness [making you, Israel, an object of loathing and of mockery, a spectacle among the nations].
- Ezekiel 16:38 - And I [the Lord God] will judge you like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
- Ezekiel 16:39 - I will also hand you over to your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and they will leave you naked and bare.
- Ezekiel 16:40 - They will also incite a crowd against you and they will stone you and slaughter you with their swords.
- Ezekiel 16:41 - They will burn down your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women (Gentile nations). Then I will make you cease your prostitution, and you will no longer hire your lovers.
- Ezekiel 16:42 - So I will calm My wrath toward you and My jealousy [resulting from being denied what is rightfully and uniquely mine] will turn away from you; I will be pacified and no longer angry.
- Ezekiel 16:43 - Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged Me with all these things, therefore, I in turn will bring your conduct down on your own head,” says the Lord God, “so that you will not commit this lewdness on top of all your other repulsive acts.
- Ezekiel 16:44 - “Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
- Ezekiel 16:45 - You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children. You are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your [spiritual] mother was a Hittite and your [spiritual] father an Amorite.
- Ezekiel 16:46 - Now your older sister is Samaria, she with her daughters (outlying cities) who live north of you; and your younger sister is Sodom, she with her daughters who live south of you.
- Ezekiel 16:47 - Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or behaved in accordance with their pagan practices; but, as if that were too little, you [soon] acted more corruptly in all your ways than they.
- Ezekiel 16:48 - As I live,” says the Lord God, “Sodom, your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
- Ezekiel 16:49 - Behold, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters (outlying cities) had arrogance, abundant food, and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.
- Ezekiel 16:50 - They were haughty and committed repulsive acts before Me; therefore I removed them when I saw it.
- Ezekiel 16:51 - Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half of your sins, but you have greatly increased your repulsive acts more than they. So you have made your [wicked] sisters [Samaria and Sodom] appear righteous and justified by [comparison to] all the disgusting things which you have done.
- Ezekiel 16:52 - Also bear your disgrace [as punishment], having made judgment favorable for your sisters, for [you virtually absolved them] because of your sins in which you behaved more repulsively than they; they are more in the right than you. Yes, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, for you made your [pagan] sisters seem righteous.
- Ezekiel 16:53 - “Nevertheless, I will restore them [again] from their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters (outlying cities), the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and along with them [I will restore you from] your own captivity [in the day of the Lord God],
- Ezekiel 16:54 - so that you [Judah] will bear your humiliation and disgrace, and be [thoroughly] ashamed for all [the wickedness] that you have done to console and comfort them.
- Ezekiel 16:55 - Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former state; and you and your daughters will return to your former state.
- Ezekiel 16:56 - For [the name of] your sister Sodom was not mentioned by you [except as a byword] in the day of your pride [when David ruled],
- Ezekiel 16:57 - before your [own] wickedness was uncovered. Now you have become an object of reproach and a byword for the daughters of Aram and of Edom and all who are around her, and for the daughters of the Philistines—those surrounding you who despise you.
- Ezekiel 16:58 - You have borne [the penalty of] your lewdness and your repulsive acts,” says the Lord.
- Ezekiel 16:59 - Yes, thus says the Lord God, “I will also deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
- Ezekiel 16:60 - “Nevertheless, I will remember [with compassion] My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
- Ezekiel 16:61 - Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both your older and your younger; I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of your covenant [with Me].
- Ezekiel 16:62 - And I will establish My covenant with you, and you will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord,
- Ezekiel 16:63 - so that you may remember [in detail] and be ashamed and never open your mouth again because of your humiliation, when I have forgiven you for all that you have done,” says the Lord God.
- Jeremiah 3:1 - That is to say, “If a man divorces his wife And she goes [away] from him And becomes another man’s [wife], Will he return to her again? [Of course not!] Will not that land [where such a thing happened] be completely desecrated? But you [rebelled against Me and you] are a prostitute with many lovers; Yet you turn to Me.” says the Lord.
- Jeremiah 3:2 - “Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see; Where have you not been violated? You sat by the road waiting [eagerly] for them [those man-made gods] Like an Arab [tribesman who waits to attack] in the desert, And you have desecrated the land With your [vile] prostitution and your wickedness (disobedience to God).
- Jeremiah 3:3 - Therefore the showers have been withheld, And there has been no spring rain. Yet you have the forehead (appearance) of a prostitute; You refuse to be ashamed.
- Micah 2:11 - If a man walking in a false spirit [spouting deception] Should lie and say, ‘I will prophesy to you [O Israel] of wine and liquor (greed, sensual pleasure),’ He would be the acceptable spokesman of this people.
- Ezekiel 23:1 - The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,
- Ezekiel 23:2 - “Son of man, there were two women (Israel and Judah), the daughters of one mother (the united kingdom);
- Ezekiel 23:3 - and they prostituted themselves in Egypt. From their youth they were grossly immoral; in that place their breasts were embraced and their virgin bosom was grasped.
- Ezekiel 23:4 - Their names were Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister, and they became Mine and they gave birth to sons and daughters. And as for [the identity of] their names, Oholah is Samaria (capital city of Israel) and Oholibah is Jerusalem (capital city of Judah).
- Ezekiel 23:5 - “Oholah played the prostitute while she was Mine; and she adored and lusted after her lovers (allies), the Assyrians, her neighbors,
- Ezekiel 23:6 - who were clothed in purple, governors and officials, all of them attractive young men, horsemen riding on horses.
- Ezekiel 23:7 - She bestowed [freely] her immoralities on them, the choicest men of Assyria, all of them; and with all whom she adored and lusted after, she defiled herself with their idols.
- Ezekiel 23:8 - She did not give up the acts of prostitution that originated during her time in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her, and they handled her virgin bosom and poured out their depravity on her.
- Ezekiel 23:9 - Therefore, I placed her in the hand of her lovers (allies), into the hand of the Assyrians whom she adored.
- Ezekiel 23:10 - They uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters and they killed her with the sword. So she became notorious among women, and they executed judgments on her.
- Ezekiel 23:11 - “Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lust than she, and her acts of prostitution were more [wanton] than the immoralities of her sister.
- Ezekiel 23:12 - She lusted after the Assyrians—governors and officials, her neighbors, magnificently clothed, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.
- Ezekiel 23:13 - I saw that she had defiled herself; they both behaved the same way.
- Ezekiel 23:14 - But Oholibah carried her depravity further, for she saw men pictured on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans (Babylonians) sketched and portrayed in vermilion (bright red pigment),
- Ezekiel 23:15 - girded with belts on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, like the Babylonian men whose native land was Chaldea.
- Ezekiel 23:16 - When she saw [the sketches of] them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
- Ezekiel 23:17 - The Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and they defiled her with their evil desire; and when she had been defiled by them, she (Jerusalem) broke the relationship and pushed them away from her in disgust.
- Ezekiel 23:18 - So she flaunted her acts of prostitution and exposed her nakedness; then I became disgusted with her [and turned away], as I had become disgusted with her sister [and turned away].
- Ezekiel 23:19 - Yet she multiplied her depravities, remembering the days of her youth, when she was actively immoral in the land of Egypt.
- Ezekiel 23:20 - For she lusted after her lovers [there], whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
- Ezekiel 23:21 - Thus you longed for the lewdness and vulgarity of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom on account of the breasts of your youth.
- Ezekiel 23:22 - “Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I will stir up your lovers (allies) against you, from whom you turned away in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side:
- Ezekiel 23:23 - the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and officials all of them, princes, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.
- Ezekiel 23:24 - They will come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of people (infantry) who will array themselves against you on every side with large shield and small, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment and the punishment to them, and they will judge and punish you in accordance with their [pagan] customs.
- Ezekiel 23:25 - I will set My jealous indignation against you [demanding what is rightfully and uniquely mine], and they will deal with you in fury. They will remove your nose and your ears, and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and the survivors will be devoured by the fire.
- Ezekiel 23:26 - They will also strip you (Judah) of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels.
- Ezekiel 23:27 - Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your prostitution brought from the land of Egypt, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt [with longing] anymore.’
- Ezekiel 23:28 - For thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I will place you into the hands of those whom you hate, into the hands of those from whom you turned away in disgust.
- Ezekiel 23:29 - They will deal with you in hatred, take all your property, and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your depravity will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your obscene practices.
- Ezekiel 23:30 - These things will be done to you because you have prostituted yourself with the [Gentile] nations, because you have defiled yourself with their idols.
- Ezekiel 23:31 - You have walked in the way of your sister (Samaria); therefore I will give her cup [of judgment] into your hand.’
- Ezekiel 23:32 - Thus says the Lord God, ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, Which is deep and wide [and filled to the brim]. You shall be laughed at and derided; It contains much [too much to endure].
- Ezekiel 23:33 - You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, With the cup of horror and desolation, With the cup of your sister Samaria.
- Ezekiel 23:34 - You will drink it and drain it, Then you will gnaw its fragments And tear your breasts; for I have spoken,’ says the Lord God.
- Ezekiel 23:35 - Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, therefore bear now [the consequences of] your lewdness and prostitution.’ ”
- Ezekiel 23:36 - Moreover, the Lord said to me, “Son of man, will you judge Oholah (Samaria, capital of Israel) and Oholibah (Jerusalem, capital of Judah)? Then inform them of their atrocities [the detestable and vile things they do].
- Ezekiel 23:37 - For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery [against Me] with their idols and have even forced their sons, whom they bore to Me, to pass through the fire as [an offering of] food to them (idols).
- Ezekiel 23:38 - Moreover, they have done this to Me: they have defiled My sanctuary on the same day [of their idolatries] and have profaned My Sabbaths.
- Ezekiel 23:39 - For when they had killed their children [as offerings] to their idols, then they came the same day to My sanctuary to profane it [by daring to offer a sacrifice there also]. And behold, this they did within My house.
- Ezekiel 23:40 - “Furthermore, you have even sent a messenger for men to come from far away; and behold, they came—those for whom you bathed, painted your eyes, and decorated yourself with ornaments;
- Ezekiel 23:41 - and you sat on a splendid couch with a table arranged before it on which you had set My incense and My oil.
- Ezekiel 23:42 - The sound of a carefree crowd was with her; and drunkards were brought from the wilderness with men of a common sort, who put bracelets on the hands of the women (both sisters) and beautiful crowns on their heads.
- Ezekiel 23:43 - “Then I said concerning the one (Oholah) worn out by adulteries, ‘Will they now commit adultery with her when she is like this?’
- Ezekiel 23:44 - But they committed adultery with her as they would with a prostitute. So they went in to Oholah (Israel) and to Oholibah (Judah), the lewd women.
- Ezekiel 23:45 - And they, righteous men, will judge and condemn them with the judgment (punishment) of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.
- Ezekiel 23:46 - “For thus says the Lord God, ‘Bring up a horde (mob) against them and hand them over to terror and plunder.
- Ezekiel 23:47 - And the horde will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and their daughters and burn down their houses with fire.
- Ezekiel 23:48 - Thus I will make lewdness cease from the land, that all women may be admonished and taught not to commit immoral acts as you have done.
- Ezekiel 23:49 - Thus your lewdness will be repaid to you, and you will suffer the penalty for your [sinful] idolatry; and you will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord God.’ ”
- Psalms 73:27 - For behold, those who are far from You will perish; You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful and have abandoned You.
- Leviticus 17:7 - So they shall no longer offer their sacrifices to goat-idols or demons or field spirits with which they have played the prostitute. This shall be a permanent statute for them throughout their generations.” ’
- Hosea 9:1 - Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation as do the [pagan] peoples, For you have played the prostitute, turning away from your God. You have loved prostitutes’ earnings on every threshing floor [attributing the harvest to the Baals instead of to God].
- Deuteronomy 31:16 - The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down [in death] with your fathers; and this people will arise and play the prostitute (commit apostasy) with the foreign gods [of the people] of the land, where they go to be among them. They will abandon (turn away from) Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.
- Numbers 15:39 - It shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, to do them, so that you do not follow after [the desires of] your own heart and eyes, [desires] after which you used to follow and play the prostitute,
- Habakkuk 2:19 - Woe (judgment is coming) to him who says to the wooden image, ‘Awake!’ And to the speechless stone, ‘Arise!’ And that is your teacher? Look, it is overlaid with gold and silver, And there is no breath at all inside it.
- Isaiah 44:18 - They do not know, nor do they understand, for God has muddied their eyes so that they cannot see, and their hearts (minds) as well so that they cannot understand.
- Isaiah 44:19 - No one remembers, nor has knowledge and understanding [enough] to say [to himself], “I have burned half of this log in the fire, and also baked bread on its coals and have roasted meat and eaten it. Then I make the rest of it into an repulsive thing [to God]; I bow down [to worship] before a block of wood!”
- Isaiah 44:20 - That kind of man (the idolater) feeds on ashes [and is satisfied with ashes]! A deceived mind has led him astray, so that he cannot save himself, or ask, “Is this thing [that I am holding] in my right hand not a lie?”
- Hosea 5:4 - Their [immoral] practices will not permit them To return to their God, For the spirit of prostitution is within them And they do not know the Lord [they do not recognize, appreciate, heed or cherish Him].
- Jeremiah 2:27 - Who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ And to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to Me, And not their faces; But in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise [O Lord] and save us.’