Ezekiel 16:35

Geneva Bible

Wherefore, O harlot, heare the worde of the Lord.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“‘Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the Lord!

Hebrew Names Version
Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of the LORD:

King James Version
Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord :

English Standard Version
"Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the Lord :

New American Standard Bible
Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the LORD.

New Century Version
"‘So, prostitute, hear the word of the Lord .

Amplified Bible
Therefore, O prostitute [Israel], hear the word of the LORD.

World English Bible
Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh:

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD.

Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of Yahweh.

Berean Standard Bible
Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD!

Contemporary English Version
The Lord said: Jerusalem, you prostitute, listen to me.

Complete Jewish Bible
"‘All right, you whore, listen to the word of Adonai !'

Darby Translation
Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of Jehovah.

Easy-to-Read Version
Prostitute, listen to the message from the Lord .

George Lamsa Translation
Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD;

Good News Translation
Now then, Jerusalem, you whore! Hear what the Lord is saying.

Lexham English Bible
"‘Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh.

Literal Translation
Therefore, O harlot, hear the Word of Jehovah,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore heare the worde of the LORDE, o thou harlot:

American Standard Version
Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of Jehovah:

Bible in Basic English
For this cause, O loose woman, give ear to the voice of the Lord:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD!

King James Version (1611)
Wherefore, O harlot, heare the word of the Lord.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therefore heare the worde of the Lorde, O thou harlot.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Therefore, harlot, hear the word of the Lord:

English Revised Version
Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor, thou hoore, here the word of the Lord.

Update Bible Version
Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh:

Webster's Bible Translation
Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:

New English Translation
"‘Therefore O prostitute, hear the word of the Lord :

New King James Version
"Now then, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD!

New Living Translation
"Therefore, you prostitute, listen to this message from the Lord !

New Life Bible
So, sinful woman, hear the Word of the Lord.

New Revised Standard
Therefore, O whore, hear the word of the Lord :

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Therefore O harlot, hear thou the word of Yahweh;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord.

Revised Standard Version
"Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:

Young's Literal Translation
Therefore, O whore, hear a word of Jehovah,

THE MESSAGE
"‘Therefore, whore, listen to God 's Message: I, God , the Master, say, Because you've been unrestrained in your promiscuity, stripped down for every lover, flaunting your sex, and because of your pornographic idols and all the slaughtered children you offered to them, therefore, because of all this, I'm going to get all your lovers together, all those you've used for your own pleasure, the ones you loved and the ones you loathed. I'll assemble them as a courtroom of spectators around you. In broad daylight I'll strip you naked before them—they'll see what you really look like. Then I'll sentence you to the punishment for an adulterous woman and a murderous woman. I'll give you a taste of my wrath!

Contextual Overview

³⁵ Wherefore, O harlot, heare the worde of the Lord. ³⁶ Thus sayeth the Lorde God, Because thy shame was powred out, and thy filthinesse discouered through thy fornications with thy louers, and with all the idoles of thine abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didest offer vnto them, ³⁷ Beholde, therefore I wil gather all thy louers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loued, with al them that thou hast hated: I will euen gather them round about against thee, and will discouer thy filthines vnto them, that they may see all thy filthines. ³⁸ And I wil iudge thee after ye maner of them that are harlots, and of them that shead blood, and I wil giue thee the blood of wrath & ielousie. ³⁹ I will also giue thee into their handes, and they shal destroy thine hie place, and shall breake downe thine hie places. they shall strippe thee also out of thy clothes, and shall take thy faire iewels, and leaue thee naked and bare. ⁴⁰ They shall also bring vp a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swordes. ⁴¹ And they shall burne vp thine houses with fire, and execute iudgements vpon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou shalt giue no reward any more. ⁴² So will I make my wrath towarde thee to rest, and my ielousie shall depart from thee, and I will cease and be no more angrie. ⁴³ Because thou hast not remembred the dayes of thy youth, but hast prouoked me with all these things, behold, therefore I also haue brought thy way vpon thine head, sayeth the Lorde God: yet hast not thou had consideration of all thine abominations.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

O harlot: Isaiah 1:21, Isaiah 23:15, Isaiah 23:16, Jeremiah 3:1, Jeremiah 3:6-8, Hosea 2:5, Nahum 3:4, John 4:10, John 4:18, Revelation 17:5

hear: Ezekiel 13:2, Ezekiel 20:47, Ezekiel 34:7, 1 Kings 22:19, Isaiah 1:10, Isaiah 28:14, Hosea 4:1, Amos 7:16

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord. The sentence about to be pronounced; adjudging to be slain with the sword, to be stoned and burned; the crime for which is to be read in the name of harlot, justly given to an apostate people; as it often is to the church of Rome in the book of the Revelation. The Targum is,

"whose works are as an harlots; O congregation of Israel, receive the words of the Lord;''

which follow:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Judah is now represented as undergoing the punishment adjudged to an adulteress and murderess. Only in her utter destruction shall the wrath of the Lord, the jealous God, cease.

Ezekiel 16:36

Filthiness - Or, brass, i. e., money, is lavished. The Hebrews generally speak of money as gold Isaiah 46:6, but brass coins were not unknown in the time of the Maccabees. Compare Matthew 10:9; Mark 12:41. Ezekiel may here have put brass for gold contemptuously. Compare Isaiah 1:22-25; Isaiah 48:10.

Ezekiel 16:38

I will give thee blood in fury - Rather, “I will make thee a bloody sacrifice to fury and jealousy.” By the Law of Moses, death was the penalty for murder Exodus 21:12, and for adultery (Leviticus 20:10; e. g., by stoning, Ezekiel 16:40). The circumstances of the siege of Jerusalem corresponded with the punishment of the adulteress; the company gathered around her were the surrounding armies, the fury of the jealous husband was the fury of the attacking army, the stripping off her ornaments was the rapine of the siege, the stoning the battering-rams, the bloody death being the slaughter in the battle.

Ezekiel 16:42

So ... rest - Or, “My fury shall not rest until thou art utterly ruined.”

Ezekiel 16:43

Thou shalt not ... abominations - Others render it: “I will not do wickedly because of all thine etc.” i. e., by allowing jerusalem to remain unpunished