Ezekiel 16 · Verse 25

Ezekiel 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.
Ezekiel 16:25, King James Version

Ezekiel 16:25 in other translations

BSBAt the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by.
WEBYou have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution.
ASVThou hast built thy lofty place at the head of every way, and hast made thy beauty an abomination, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredom.
YLTAt every head of the way thou hast built thy high place, And thou dost make thy beauty abominable, And dost open wide thy feet to every passer by, And dost multiply thy whoredoms,
DARBYthou didst build thy high place at every head of the way, and madest thy beauty to be abhorred, and thou didst open thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiply thy whoredom.
BBEYou put up your high places at the top of every street, and made the grace of your form a disgusting thing, opening your feet to everyone who went by, increasing your loose ways.
WebsterThou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast prostituted thyself to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy lewd deeds.

What does Ezekiel 16:25 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
25. at every head of the way--in the most frequented places (Pr 9:14). thy beauty ... abhorred, ... opened ... feet to every one--The wanton advances were all on Israel's part; the idolatrous nations yielded to her nothing in return. She had yielded so much that, like a worn-out prostitute, her tempters became weary of her. When the Church lowers her testimony for God to the carnal tastes of the world, with a view to conciliation, she loses everything and gains nothing.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 16:1-58

A parable showing the first low estate of the Jewish nation, its prosperity, idolatries, and punishment. Verses 1-58 In this chapter God's dealings with the Jewish nation, and their conduct towards him, are described, and their punishment through the surrounding nations, even those they most trusted in. This is done under the parable of an exposed infant rescued from death, educated, espoused, and richly provided…

Read the full comment on Ezekiel 16:1-58 →

Ezekiel 16:25 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אֶל\־'el-toH413
כָּל\־kol-everyH3605
רֹ֣אשׁroshhead ofH7218
דֶּ֗רֶךְDe.rekha roadH1870
בָּנִית֙ba.Nityou builtH1129
רָֽמָתֵ֔ךְra.ma.Tekhhigh place yourH7413
וַתְּתַֽעֲבִי֙va.te.ta.'a.Viand you made abominableH8581
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
יָפְיֵ֔ךְya.fe.Yekhbeauty yourH3308
וַתְּפַשְּׂקִ֥יva.te.fa.se.Kiand you opened wideH6589
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
רַגְלַ֖יִךְrag.La.yikhfeet yourH7272
לְכָל\־le.kholfor everyH3605
עוֹבֵ֑רo.Ver[one who] passed byH5674
וַתַּרְבִּ֖יva.tar.Biand you increasedH7235
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
תַּזְנוּתָֽיִךְ\׃taz.nu.tekhprostitution<s> yourH8457

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Cross references for Ezekiel 16:25

  • Ezekiel 16:31

    In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;

  • Jeremiah 3:2

    Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

  • Ezekiel 23:32

    Thus saith the Lord God; Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.

  • Jeremiah 6:15

    Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.

  • Isaiah 3:9

    The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • Jeremiah 2:23-24

    How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways; A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

  • Proverbs 9:14-15

    For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, To call passengers who go right on their ways:

  • Revelation 17:1-5

    And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: …

  • Revelation 17:12-13

    And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

  • Genesis 38:21

    Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.

  • Revelation 17:16

    And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

  • Genesis 38:14

    And she put her widow’s garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.

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at every.
31; Ge 38:14,21; Pr 9:14,15; Isa 3:9; Jer 2:23,24; 3:2; 6:15
and hast made.
23:9,10,32; Re 17:1-5,12,13,16

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Context

  • Ezekiel 16:24

    That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.

  • Ezekiel 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.

  • Ezekiel 16:26

    Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

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Ezekiel 16:25 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
En toda cabeza de camino edificaste tu altar, y tornaste abominable tu hermosura, y abriste tus piernas á cuantos pasaban, y multiplicaste tus fornicaciones.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
au bout de chaque chemin tu as bâti ton haut lieu, et tu as rendu ta beauté abominable, et tu t’es découverte à tout passant, et tu as multiplié tes prostitutions.
German
Elberfelder 1871
an jedem Scheidewege bautest du deine Höhen, und du schändetest deine Schönheit und spreiztest deine Füße gegen jeden Vorübergehenden; und du mehrtest deine Hurerei.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Ad omne caput viæ ædificasti signum prostitutionis tuæ, et abominabilem fecisti decorem tuum: et divisisti pedes tuos omni transeunti, et multiplicasti fornicationes tuas: