Ezekiel 16:32
But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
Ezekiel 16:32 in other translations
| BSB | You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband! |
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| WEB | “‘“Adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband! |
| ASV | A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband! |
| YLT | The wife who committeth adultery--Under her husband--doth receive strangers. |
| DARBY | O adulterous wife, that taketh strangers instead of her husband. |
| BBE | The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband! |
| Webster | But as a wife that committeth adultery, who taketh strangers instead of her husband! |
What does Ezekiel 16:32 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
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…
Ezekiel 16:32 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Ezekiel 16:32
- Jeremiah 2:28
But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
- Hosea 3:1
Then said the Lord unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the Lord toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
- Jeremiah 3:20
Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the Lord.
- 2 Corinthians 11:2-3
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
- Jeremiah 2:25
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
- Ezekiel 16:8
Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine.
- Hosea 2:2
Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
- Jeremiah 3:8-9
And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
- Ezekiel 23:37
That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
- Ezekiel 23:45
And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
- Jeremiah 3:1
They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the Lord.
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- 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;
- Ezekiel 16:32
But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
- Ezekiel 16:33
They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.
Ezekiel 16:32 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Sino como mujer adúltera, por cuanto que en lugar de su marido recibe á ajenos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | femme qui commets l’adultère, tu prends des étrangers à la place de ton mari. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | das ehebrecherische Weib nimmt statt ihres Mannes Fremde an! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | sed quasi mulier adultera, quæ super virum suum inducit alienos. |