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Ezekiel 16:15

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¶ But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.

But thou didst trust {H982} in thine own beauty {H3308}, and playedst the harlot {H2181} because of thy renown {H8034}, and pouredst out {H8210} thy fornications {H8457} on every one that passed by {H5674}; his it was.

"'But you put your trust in your own beauty and began prostituting yourself because of your fame, soliciting everyone passing by and accepting all comers.

But because of your fame, you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot. You lavished your favors on everyone who passed by, and your beauty was theirs for the asking.

But thou didst trust in thy beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy whoredoms on every one that passed by; his it was.

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Cross-References

  • Ezekiel 16:25 (5 votes)

    Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.

  • Isaiah 57:8 (5 votes)

    Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered [thyself to another] than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee [a covenant] with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest [it].

  • Jeremiah 2:20 (5 votes)

    ¶ For of old time I have broken thy yoke, [and] burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

  • Ezekiel 23:3 (4 votes)

    And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

  • Jeremiah 7:4 (4 votes)

    Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, [are] these.

  • Isaiah 1:21 (3 votes)

    ¶ How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

  • Ezekiel 23:8 (3 votes)

    Neither left she her whoredoms [brought] from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.