Ezekiel 16:35

Legacy Standard Bible

Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of Yahweh.

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:

Geneva Bible (1587)
Wherefore, O harlot, heare the worde of the Lord.

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

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

³⁵Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of Yahweh. ³⁶Thus says Lord Yahweh, "Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your harlotries with your lovers and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your sons which you gave to idols, ³⁷therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, even all those whom you loved and all those whom you hated. So I will gather them against you from all around and uncover your nakedness to them that they may see all your nakedness. ³⁸Thus I 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. ³⁹I will also give you into the hands of your lovers, and they will pull down your shrines, tear down your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your splendid jewelry, and will leave you naked and bare. ⁴⁰They will bring up an assembly against you, and they will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords. ⁴¹They will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. Then I will make you cease from playing the harlot, and you will also no longer give your earnings to your lovers. ⁴²So I will cause My wrath against you to be at rest, and My jealousy will depart from you, and I will be quiet, and I will not be provoked anymore. ⁴³Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged Me by all these things, behold, I in turn will bring your way down on your own head," declares Lord Yahweh, "so that you will not commit this lewdness on top of all your other 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