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New Living Translation

Ezekiel 16:32

Yes, you are an adulterous wife who takes in strangers instead of her own husband.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Lasciviousness;   Women;   The Topic Concordance - Judges;   Whoredom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - High Places;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ashtoreth, Plural Ash'taroth;   Fornication;   Harlot;   Solomon's Song;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Adultery;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Marriage;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Adultery;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jebus;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Marriage;   Song of Songs;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Amorites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Solomon the song of;  

Encyclopedias:

- Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Adultery;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - ḥanina (Hananiah) B. Gamaliel Ii.;   Midrash Haggadah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
Hebrew Names Version
A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!
King James Version
But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
English Standard Version
Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
New American Standard Bible
"You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!
New Century Version
"‘You are a wife who is guilty of adultery. You desire strangers instead of your husband.
Amplified Bible
"You adulterous wife, who welcomes and receives strangers instead of her husband!
World English Bible
A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!
Geneva Bible (1587)
But as a wife that playeth the harlot, and taketh others for her husband:
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!
Legacy Standard Bible
You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!
Berean Standard Bible
You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband!
Contemporary English Version
You are nothing but an unfaithful wife who would rather have sex with strangers than with your own husband.
Complete Jewish Bible
Here is a wife who commits adultery, who goes to bed with strangers instead of her husband;
Darby Translation
O adulterous wife, that taketh strangers instead of her husband.
Easy-to-Read Version
You are a woman guilty of adultery. You would rather have sex with strangers than with your own husband.
George Lamsa Translation
And even not as clever as a whorish wife who takes a price from strangers.
Good News Translation
You are like a woman who commits adultery with strangers instead of loving her husband.
Lexham English Bible
O, adulterous woman! In the place of her husband she received strangers.
Literal Translation
Like the adulterous wife, instead of her husband, she takes strangers.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but as a wife yt breaketh wedlocke, & taketh other in steade of hir hu?bode.
American Standard Version
A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!
Bible in Basic English
The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou wife that committest adultery, that takest strangers instead of thy husband--
King James Version (1611)
But as a wife that committeth adulterie, which taketh strangers in steede of her husband.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But as a wyfe that breaketh wedlocke, and taketh other in steede of her husbande.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
An adulteress resembles thee, taking rewards of her husband.
English Revised Version
A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
encreessynge prijs, but as a womman auowtresse, that bryngith in aliens on hir hosebonde.
Update Bible Version
A wife that commits adultery! that takes strangers instead of her husband!
Webster's Bible Translation
[But as] a wife that committeth adultery, [who] taketh strangers instead of her husband!
New English Translation
"‘Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!
New King James Version
You are an adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband.
New Life Bible
You are like a wife who is not faithful and has strangers instead of her husband!
New Revised Standard
Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A wife who committeth adultery, instead of her husband accepteth strangers.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But is an adulteress, that bringeth in strangers over her husband.
Revised Standard Version
Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
Young's Literal Translation
The wife who committeth adultery -- Under her husband -- doth receive strangers.
THE MESSAGE
"‘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!

Contextual Overview

15 "But you thought your fame and beauty were your own. So you gave yourself as a prostitute to every man who came along. Your beauty was theirs for the asking. 16 You used the lovely things I gave you to make shrines for idols, where you played the prostitute. Unbelievable! How could such a thing ever happen? 17 You took the very jewels and gold and silver ornaments I had given you and made statues of men and worshiped them. This is adultery against me! 18 You used the beautifully embroidered clothes I gave you to dress your idols. Then you used my special oil and my incense to worship them. 19 Imagine it! You set before them as a sacrifice the choice flour, olive oil, and honey I had given you, says the Sovereign Lord . 20 "Then you took your sons and daughters—the children you had borne to me—and sacrificed them to your gods. Was your prostitution not enough? 21 Must you also slaughter my children by sacrificing them to idols? 22 In all your years of adultery and detestable sin, you have not once remembered the days long ago when you lay naked in a field, kicking about in your own blood. 23 "What sorrow awaits you, says the Sovereign Lord . In addition to all your other wickedness, 24 you built a pagan shrine and put altars to idols in every town square.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ezekiel 16:8, Ezekiel 23:37, Ezekiel 23:45, Jeremiah 2:25, Jeremiah 2:28, Jeremiah 3:1, Jeremiah 3:8, Jeremiah 3:9, Jeremiah 3:20, Hosea 2:2, Hosea 3:1, 2 Corinthians 11:2, 2 Corinthians 11:3

Reciprocal: Genesis 39:7 - Lie Isaiah 57:8 - for John 4:18 - is not

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[But as] a wife that committeth adultery,.... Who has a husband, and is provided for with all the necessaries of life, with food and clothing; and so has no need to prostitute herself for a livelihood, as common strumpets do; but does it purely for the satiating of her lust: and such were the people of the Jews, they were married to the Lord, who took care of them, and provided everything for them, and acted the part of a husband to them; so that it was the weakness of their hearts, and the strength of their corruptions, which led them to depart from him, and commit idolatry; which in them was adultery, while the sin of the Gentiles was as simple fornication:

[which] taketh strangers instead of her husband; that takes other men into her bed instead of her husband, not for the sake of gain, but lust; and this was the case of the Jews, who were a wicked people, an idolatrous generation; who took strange gods to worship instead of the true God, who had been a husband to them, Jeremiah 31:32.


 
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