Ezekiel 16:23

THE MESSAGE

"‘And then to top off all your evil acts, you built your bold brothels in every town square. Doom! Doom to you, says God , the Master! At every major intersection you built your bold brothels and exposed your sluttish sex, spreading your legs for everyone who passed by.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“‘Then after all your evil—Woe, woe to you!—the declaration of the Lord God—

Hebrew Names Version
It is happen after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you! says the Lord GOD,)

King James Version
And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord God ;)

English Standard Version
"And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord God ),

New American Standard Bible
"Then it came about after all your wickedness ('Woe, woe to you!' declares the Lord GOD),

New Century Version
"‘How terrible! How terrible it will be for you, says the Lord God . After you did all these evil things,

Amplified Bible
"Then it came about after all your wickedness ('Woe, woe to you!' says the Lord GOD),

World English Bible
It is happen after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you! says the Lord Yahweh,)

Geneva Bible (1587)
And beside all thy wickednes (wo, wo vnto thee, saith the Lord God)

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Then it came about after all your wickedness ('Woe, woe to you!' declares the Lord GOD),

Legacy Standard Bible
"Now it happened after all your evil—‘Woe, woe to you!' declares Lord Yahweh—

Berean Standard Bible
Woe! Woe to you, declares the Lord GOD. And after all your other wickedness,

Contemporary English Version
Now I, the Lord God, say you are doomed! Not only did you do these evil things,

Complete Jewish Bible
"‘So, after all this wickedness of yours — woe, woe to you!' says Adonai Elohim —

Darby Translation
And it came to pass after all thy wickedness (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord Jehovah),

Easy-to-Read Version
"After all these evil things, … it will be very bad for you!" The Lord God said all these things.

George Lamsa Translation
And after all your wickedness, woe, woe to you! says the LORD God;

Good News Translation
The Sovereign Lord said, "You are doomed! Doomed! You did all that evil, and then

Lexham English Bible
"‘And then after all of your evil! Woe, woe, to you!' declares the Lord Yahweh.

Literal Translation
Woe, woe to you, says the Lord Jehovah! For it happened, after all your evil,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
After all these thy wickednesses (wo wo vnto the, saieth ye LORDE)

American Standard Version
And it is come to pass after all thy wickedness (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord Jehovah),

Bible in Basic English
And it came about, after all your evil-doing, says the Lord,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And it came to pass after all thy wickedness--woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD--

King James Version (1611)
And it came to passe after all thy wickednesse (woe, woe vnto thee, saith the Lord God.)

Bishop's Bible (1568)
After all these thy wickednesses, (wo wo vnto thee, saith the Lorde God.)

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, saith the Lord,

English Revised Version
And it is come to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD,)

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And after al thi malice, wo, wo bifelle to thee, seith the Lord God.

Update Bible Version
And it has come to pass after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you! says the Lord Yahweh,)

Webster's Bible Translation
And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe to thee! saith the Lord GOD;)

New English Translation
"‘After all of your evil—"Woe! Woe to you!" declares the sovereign Lord —

New King James Version
"Then it was so, after all your wickedness--"Woe, woe to you!' says the Lord GOD--

New Living Translation
"What sorrow awaits you, says the Sovereign Lord . In addition to all your other wickedness,

New Life Bible
"It is bad for you!" says the Lord God. "After all your sinful acts,

New Revised Standard
After all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! says the Lord God ),

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, Woe! Woe! to thee, Exclaimeth My Lord Yahweh;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And it came to pass after all thy wickedness (woe, woe to thee, saith the Lord God)

Revised Standard Version
"And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! says the Lord GOD),

Young's Literal Translation
And it cometh to pass, after all thy wickedness, (Wo, wo, to thee -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah),

Contextual Overview

¹⁵"‘But your beauty went to your head and you became a common whore, grabbing anyone coming down the street and taking him into your bed. You took your fine dresses and made "tents" of them, using them as brothels in which you practiced your trade. This kind of thing should never happen, never. ¹⁷"‘And then you took all that fine jewelry I gave you, my gold and my silver, and made pornographic images of them for your brothels. You decorated your beds with fashionable silks and cottons, and perfumed them with my aromatic oils and incense. And then you set out the wonderful foods I provided—the fresh breads and fruits, with fine herbs and spices, which were my gifts to you—and you served them as delicacies in your whorehouses. That's what happened, says God , the Master. ²⁰"‘And then you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had given birth to as my children, and you killed them, sacrificing them to idols. Wasn't it bad enough that you had become a whore? And now you're a murderer, killing my children and sacrificing them to idols. ²² "‘Not once during these years of outrageous obscenities and whorings did you remember your infancy, when you were naked and exposed, a blood-smeared newborn. ²³"‘And then to top off all your evil acts, you built your bold brothels in every town square. Doom! Doom to you, says God , the Master! At every major intersection you built your bold brothels and exposed your sluttish sex, spreading your legs for everyone who passed by. ²⁵"‘And then you went international with your whoring. You fornicated with the Egyptians, seeking them out in their sex orgies. The more promiscuous you became, the angrier I got. Finally, I intervened, reduced your borders and turned you over to the rapacity of your enemies. Even the Philistine women—can you believe it?—were shocked at your sluttish life. ²⁸"‘You went on to fornicate with the Assyrians. Your appetite was insatiable. But still you weren't satisfied. You took on the Babylonians, a country of businessmen, and still you weren't satisfied. ³⁰"‘What a sick soul! Doing all this stuff—the champion whore! You built your bold brothels at every major intersection, opened up your whorehouses in every neighborhood, but you were different from regular whores in that you wouldn't accept a fee. ³²"‘Wives who are unfaithful to their husbands accept gifts from their lovers. And men commonly pay their whores. But you pay your lovers! You bribe men from all over to come to bed with you! You're just the opposite of the regular whores who get paid for sex. Instead, you pay men for their favors! You even pervert whoredom!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

woe: Ezekiel 2:10, Ezekiel 13:3, Ezekiel 13:18, Ezekiel 24:6, Jeremiah 13:27, Zephaniah 3:1, Matthew 11:21, Matthew 23:13-29, Revelation 8:13, Revelation 12:12

Reciprocal: Isaiah 2:8 - is full Hosea 7:13 - Woe

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass after all thy wickedness,.... This refers either to what goes before, so Kimchi; and the sense is, it shall be again as it was at first, after and because of all the above wickedness committed, thou shalt be left naked and bare, and destitute of all that is good: or rather to what follows in the next clause; and the meaning is, to all this wickedness before mentioned, which was so great that it might be thought nothing more could be added to it; and yet the following things were, as building an eminent place, and high places, in all streets and heads of ways:

woe, woe unto thee, saith the Lord of hosts; which is repeated, to show the indignation of the Lord against all this wickedness; to arouse their attention to their sin and punishment, and to show the certainty of it; and it may be it denotes both their misery in this world, and in that to come. The Targum of the whole is,

"what shall be in thine end for all thy wickedness? the prophet said unto her, woe unto thee, because thou hast sinned; woe unto thee, because thou art not converted, saith the Lord God.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

After all ... - Besides these things, there was the introduction of other idolatrous rites from the nations with whom Israel had contact.