Ezekiel 16:12

Easy-to-Read Version

I gave you a nose ring, earrings, and a beautiful crown to wear.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

Hebrew Names Version
I put a ring on your nose, and ear-rings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

King James Version
And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.

English Standard Version
And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

New American Standard Bible
"I also put a ring in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

New Century Version
a ring in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

Amplified Bible
"I also put a ring in your nostril and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

World English Bible
I put a ring on your nose, and ear-rings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And I put a frontlet vpon thy face, and earings in thine eares, and a beautifull crowne vpon thine head.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I also put a ring in your nostril, earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

Legacy Standard Bible
I also put a ring in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a splendid crown on your head.

Berean Standard Bible
I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.

Contemporary English Version
a ring for your nose, some earrings, and a beautiful crown.

Complete Jewish Bible
a ring for your nose, earrings for your ears and a beautiful crown for your head.

Darby Translation
and I put a ring on thy nose, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.

George Lamsa Translation
And I put a jewel on your forehead and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

Good News Translation
I gave you a nose ring and earrings and a beautiful crown to wear.

Lexham English Bible
And I put an ornamental ring on your nose and earrings on your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

Literal Translation
And I put a ring on your nose and earrings on your ears and a crown of beauty on your head.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
spages vpo thy foreheade, eare rynges vpon thyne eares, & set a beutifull crowne vpon thine heade.

American Standard Version
And I put a ring upon thy nose, and ear-rings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.

Bible in Basic English
And I put a ring in your nose and ear-rings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And I put a ring upon thy nose, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.

King James Version (1611)
And I put a iewell on thy forehead, and eare-rings in thine eares, and a beautifull crowne vpon thine head.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And I put a frontlet vpon thy face, and eareringes vpon thyne eares, and a beautifull crowne vpon thyne head.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I put a pendant on thy nostril, and rings in thine ears, and a crown of glory on thine head.

English Revised Version
And I put a ring upon thy nose, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y yaf bies in thin hondis, and a wrethe aboute thi necke; and Y yaf a ryng on thi mouth, and cerclis to thin eeris, and a coroun of fairnesse in thin heed.

Update Bible Version
And I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and ear-rings in thy ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.

New English Translation
I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

New King James Version
And I put a jewel in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

New Living Translation
a ring for your nose, earrings for your ears, and a lovely crown for your head.

New Life Bible
I put rings in your nose and in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

New Revised Standard
a ring on your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And put a nose-jewel upon thy nose, And earrings in thine ears, And a crown of adorning, upon thy head.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I put a jewel upon thy forehead and earrings in thy ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.

Revised Standard Version
And I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.

Young's Literal Translation
And I give a ring for thy nose, And rings for thine ears, And a crown of beauty on thy head.

Contextual Overview

⁶ "‘Then I passed by. I saw you lying there, kicking in the blood. You were covered with blood, but I said, "Please live!" Yes, you were covered with blood, but I said, "Please live!" ⁷ I helped you grow like a plant in the field. You grew and grew. You became a young woman: your periods began, your breasts grew, and your hair began to grow. But you were still bare and naked. ⁸ I looked you over. I saw you were ready for love, so I spread my clothes over you and covered your nakedness. I promised to marry you. I made the agreement with you, and you became mine.'" This is what the Lord God said. ⁹ "‘I washed you in water. I poured water over you to wash away the blood that was on you, and then I put oil on your skin. ¹⁰ I gave you a nice dress and soft leather sandals, a linen headband, and a silk scarf. ¹¹ I also gave you some jewelry. I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace around your neck. ¹² I gave you a nose ring, earrings, and a beautiful crown to wear. ¹³ You were beautiful in your gold and silver jewelry, and your linen, silk, and embroidered material. You ate the best foods. You were very, very beautiful, and you became the queen! ¹⁴ You became famous for your beauty, all because I made you so lovely!'" This is what the Lord God said.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:22 - earring Exodus 32:2 - General Deuteronomy 26:19 - high above Isaiah 3:20 - the earrings Ezekiel 21:26 - Remove Ezekiel 23:42 - bracelets

Cross-References

Genesis 16:5
Then Sarai said to Abram, "My slave girl now hates me, and I blame you for this. I gave her to you, and she became pregnant. Then she began to feel that she is better than I am. I want the Lord to judge which of us is right."

Genesis 16:8
The angel said, "Hagar, Sarai's slave girl, why are you here? Where are you going?" Hagar said, "I am running away from Sarai."

Genesis 21:20
God continued to be with the boy while he grew up. Ishmael lived in the desert and became a hunter. He learned to shoot a bow very well.

Genesis 27:40
You will have to fight to live, and you will be a slave to your brother. But when you fight to be free, you will break away from his control."

Job 11:12
A wild donkey cannot give birth to a man, and a stupid person will never become wise.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I put a jewel on thy forehead,.... The same with the nose jewel, which was hung upon the forehead, and reached down to the nose and mouth; and, however disagreeable it may seem to us, was reckoned very ornamental in the eastern countries, Isaiah 3:21; and where now, as in Persia, as well as in all the Levant, the women put rings through their noses, which they pierce with needles, as Monsieur Thevenot z relates; so Dr. Shaw a says that nose jewels are used still by the Levant Arabs. The Targum applies it to the ark, thus,

"and I put the ark of my covenant among you;''

but may be better applied a public profession of religion, which every good man ought to make, and take up from principles of grace received; this is bearing the name of Christ and the name of his Father in their foreheads; which is very ornamental to the believer, and well pleasing to Christ, Romans 10:9;

and earrings in thine ears. The Targum is,

"and the clouds of my glory overshadowed you;''

but it may be better interpreted of the spiritual ears God gives his people in conversion; by which they hear his word, so as to understand it; hear the voice of Christ, so as to distinguish it from the voice of a stranger; and hear his Gospel, so as to believe and receive it, approve of it, and love it, and act in conformity to it:

and a beautiful crown upon thine head. The Targum paraphrases it thus,

"and an angel, sent from before me, led at the head of you:''

referring to Exodus 23:20; with which Jarchi compares Micah 2:13 but may be better illustrated by the beautiful crown of twelve stars, the doctrine of the twelve apostles of Christ, said to he upon the head of the church; and is upon the head of every believer that holds the mystery of the faith in pure conscience; that holds fast the faithful word, and will not let it go, that so no man may take away his crown,

Revelation 12:1.

z Travels, par. 2. B. 2. c. 9. p. 94. a Travels, p. 241. Ed. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A jewel on thy forehead - literally, “a nose-ring on thy nostril” (Genesis 24:22 note).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 16:12. I put a jewel on thy forehead — על אפך al appech, upon thy nose. This is one of the most common ornaments among ladies in the east. European translators, not knowing what to make of a ring in the nose, have rendered it, a jewel on thy forehead or mouth, (though they have sometimes a piece of gold or jewel fastened to the centre of their forehead.) I have already spoken of this Asiatic custom, so often referred to in the sacred writings: see Genesis 24:22; Genesis 24:42; Exodus 32:2; Job 42:11; Proverbs 11:22; Isaiah 3:21; Hosea 2:13.