Ezekiel 16:35

New Century Version

"‘So, prostitute, hear the word 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.

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.

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 "‘So, prostitute, hear the word of the Lord . ³⁶ This is what the Lord God says: You showed your nakedness to other countries. You uncovered your body in your sexual sins with them as your lovers and with all your hateful idols. You killed your children and offered their blood to your idols. ³⁷ So I will gather all your lovers with whom you found pleasure. Yes, I will gather all those you loved and those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around, and I will strip you naked in front of them so they can see your nakedness. ³⁸ I will punish you as women guilty of adultery or as murderers are punished. I will put you to death because I am angry and jealous. ³⁹ I will also hand you over to your lovers. They will tear down your places of worship and destroy other places where you worship gods. They will tear off your clothes and take away your jewelry, leaving you naked and bare. ⁴⁰ They will bring a crowd against you to throw stones at you and to cut you into pieces with their swords. ⁴¹ They will burn down your houses and will punish you in front of many women. I will put an end to your sexual sins, and you will no longer pay your lovers. ⁴² Then I will rest from my anger against you, and I will stop being jealous. I will be quiet and not angry anymore. ⁴³ "‘Because you didn't remember when you were young, but have made me angry in all these ways, I will repay you for what you have done, says the Lord God . Didn't you add sexual sins to all your other acts which I hate?

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