Ezekiel 16:11

Updated Bible Version

And I decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I adorned you with jewelry, putting bracelets on your wrists and a necklace around your neck.

Hebrew Names Version
I decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck.

King James Version
I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.

English Standard Version
And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck.

New American Standard Bible
"I adorned you with jewelry, put bracelets on your wrists, and a necklace around your neck.

New Century Version
I put jewelry on you: bracelets on your arms, a necklace around your neck,

Amplified Bible
"I adorned you with ornaments and I put bracelets on your wrists and a necklace around your neck.

World English Bible
I decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets vpon thine handes, and a chaine on thy necke.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck.

Legacy Standard Bible
I also adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck.

Berean Standard Bible
I adorned you with jewelry, and I put bracelets on your wrists and a chain around your neck.

Contemporary English Version
I gave you bracelets, a necklace,

Complete Jewish Bible
I gave you jewelry to wear, bracelets for your hands, a necklace for your neck,

Darby Translation
And I decked thee with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck;

Easy-to-Read Version
I also gave you some jewelry. I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace around your neck.

George Lamsa Translation
I decked you also with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace on your neck.

Good News Translation
I put jewels on you—bracelets and necklaces.

Lexham English Bible
And I adorned you with ornaments, and I put a bracelet on your arms and a necklace on your neck.

Literal Translation
And I adorned you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands and a chain on your neck.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I decked the wt costly apparell, I put rynges vpon thy fyngers: a chayne aboute thy necke,

American Standard Version
And I decked thee with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.

Bible in Basic English
And I made you fair with ornaments and put jewels on your hands and a chain on your neck.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.

King James Version (1611)
I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets vpon thine hands, and a chaine on thy necke.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I decked thee with costly apparell, I put braselets vpon thy hands, a chayne about thy necke.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and decked thee also with ornaments, and put bracelets on thine hands, and a necklace on thy neck.

English Revised Version
I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Y clothide thee with sutil thingis, and Y ournede thee with ournement.

Webster's Bible Translation
I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.

New English Translation
I adorned you with jewelry. I put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck.

New King James Version
I adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on your wrists, and a chain on your neck.

New Living Translation
I gave you lovely jewelry, bracelets, beautiful necklaces,

New Life Bible
I put on you objects of beauty. I put beautiful objects on your arms and around your neck.

New Revised Standard
I adorned you with ornaments: I put bracelets on your arms, a chain on your neck,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then decked I thee with ornaments, And put bracelets upon thy hands, And a neckchain upon thy throat;

Douay-Rheims Bible
I decked thee also with ornaments, and put bracelets on thy hands, and a chain about thy neck.

Revised Standard Version
And I decked you with ornaments, and put bracelets on your arms, and a chain on your neck.

Young's Literal Translation
And I adorn thee with adornments, And I give bracelets for thy hands, And a chain for thy neck.

Contextual Overview

⁶ And when I passed by you, and saw you weltering in your blood, I said to you in your blood, live; yes, I said to you in your blood, live. ⁷ I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and waxed great, and you attained to excellent ornament; your breasts were fashioned, and your hair was grown; yet you were naked and bare. ⁸ Now when I passed by you, and looked on you, and saw your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Yahweh, and you became mine. ⁹ Then I washed you with water; yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil. ¹⁰ I clothed you also with embroidered work, and shod you with sealskin, and I girded you about with fine linen, and covered you with silk. ¹¹ And I decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck. ¹² And I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head. ¹³ Thus you were decked with gold and silver; and your raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you ate fine flour, and honey, and oil; and you were exceeding beautiful, and you prospered to royal estate. ¹⁴ And your renown went forth among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you, says the Lord Yahweh.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I put: Genesis 24:22, Genesis 24:47, Genesis 24:53

and a: Leviticus 8:9, Esther 2:17, Isaiah 28:5, Lamentations 5:16, Revelation 2:10, Revelation 4:4, Revelation 4:10

a chain: Genesis 41:42, Proverbs 1:9, Proverbs 4:9, Song of Solomon 1:10, Song of Solomon 4:9, Isaiah 3:19, Daniel 5:7, Daniel 5:16, Daniel 5:29,

forehead: Heb. nose, Genesis 24:22, *marg. Isaiah 3:21,

ear-rings: Genesis 35:4, Exodus 32:2, Exodus 35:22, Numbers 31:50, Judges 8:24, Job 42:11, Proverbs 25:12, Hosea 2:13

Reciprocal: Psalms 73:6 - as a chain Ezekiel 23:42 - bracelets

Cross-References

Genesis 17:19
And God said, No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son; and you shall call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

Exodus 3:7
And Yahweh said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

Exodus 3:9
And now, look, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to me: moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

1 Samuel 1:20
And it came to pass, when the time came about, that Hannah became pregnant, and gave birth to a son; and she named him Samuel, [saying], Because I have asked him of Yahweh.

Job 38:41
Who provides for the raven his prey, When his young ones cry to God, [And] wander for lack of food?

Psalms 22:24
For he has not despised nor detested the affliction of the afflicted; Neither has he hid his face from him; But when he cried to him, he heard.

Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: look, a virgin shall be pregnant, and give birth to a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Luke 1:13
But the angel said to him, Don't be afraid, Zacharias: because your supplication is heard, and your wife Elizabeth shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

Luke 1:31
And look, you shall conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, and shall call his name JESUS.

Luke 1:63
And he asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, saying, His name is John. And they all marveled.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I decked thee also with ornaments,.... The Targum interprets this of the ornament of the words of the law; see Proverbs 1:8; but may be as well understood of good works done in obedience to them, from a right principle, and to right ends; which adorn professors of religion, their profession, and the doctrines of Christ, which they profess, 1 Timothy 2:9; or rather the graces of the Spirit, which are all of them very ornamental to the saints, as faith, hope, love, humility, c. and are in the sight of God of great price, 1 Peter 3:3

and I put bracelets upon thine hands; which the Targum also explains of the law, written on two tables of stone, and given by the hands of Moses; the words of which, as Jarchi says, were put one against another, five against five; "hands" being the instruments of action may denote good works, which the Lord enables his people to perform; and which appear beautiful, as hands with bracelets on them, when they spring from love, are done in faith, and with a view to the glory of God:

and a chain on thy neck; this the Targum understands of sanctification, paraphrasing it,

"and with the holiness of my great name I sanctified you;''

and may be applied to the graces of the Spirit, which are as a chain, whose links are inseparably joined together; for, where one grace is, there are all the rest, faith, hope, charity, c. see Song of Solomon 1:10 or else to the blessings of grace, which also are linked together, and cannot be parted; where the one is, the other are likewise, Ephesians 1:3 Romans 8:30; and both graces and blessings make the saint very beautiful.