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Ezekiel 16:15

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.

KJV

Et habens fiduciam in pulchritudine tua, fornicata es in nomine tuo : et exposuisti fornicationem tuam omni transeunti, ut ejus fieres.

Vulgate

Κατεπεποίθεις ἐν τῷ κάλλει σου καὶ ἐπόρνευσας ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματί σου, καὶ ἐξέχεας τὴν πορνείαν σου ἐπὶ πάντα πάροδον.

LXX

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.

ASV

וַ/תִּבְטְחִ֣י בְ/יָפְיֵ֔/ךְ וַ/תִּזְנִ֖י עַל שְׁמֵ֑/ךְ וַ/תִּשְׁפְּכִ֧י אֶת תַּזְנוּתַ֛יִ/ךְ עַל כָּל עוֹבֵ֖ר ל/וֹ יֶֽהִי

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
בֹּטְחִ֖ים
btchym
verb · 117×
וֹ
v
noun · 848×
זוֹנָ֔ה
zvnh
verb · 92×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
ךְ
k
noun · 19×
ךְ
k
pronoun · 22×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
עֹבֵ֣ר
'br
verb · 561×
שְׁפָךְ
shpk
verb · 115×

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Deut 31:16 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, a
  • Ezek 16:25 — 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.
  • Ezek 16:45 — Thou art thy mother’s daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your
  • Ezek 23:3 — 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.
  • Ezek 23:8 — 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.
  • Hos 1:2 — The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from
  • Isa 1:21 — How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
  • Isa 57:8 — 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 th
  • Jer 2:20 — 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.
  • Jer 7:4 — Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
  • Matt 19:9 — And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
  • Prov 31:30 — Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.