Ezekiel 16:16 - Forerunner Commentary

Ezekiel 16:16

14 ^aYour fame went out among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through My splendor which I had bestowed on you,” says the Lord God.

Jerusalem’s Harlotry

15 ^a“But you trusted in your own beauty, ^bplayed the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your harlotry on everyone passing by who would have it.

16 ^aYou took some of your garments and adorned multicolored¹ high places for yourself, and played the harlot on them. Such things should not happen, nor be.

17 You have also taken your beautiful jewelry from My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images and played the harlot with them.

18 You took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you set My oil and My incense before them.

19 Also ^aMy food which I gave you—the pastry of fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed you—you set it before them as¹ sweet incense; and so it was,” says the Lord God.

20 ^a“Moreover you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your acts of harlotry a small matter,

21 that you have slain My children and offered them up to them by causing them to pass through the ^afire?

22 And in all your abominations and acts of harlotry you did not remember the days of your ^ayouth, ^bwhen you were naked and bare, struggling in your blood.

23 “Then it was so, after all your wickedness—‘Woe, woe to you!’ says the Lord God—

24 that ^ayou also built for yourself a shrine, and ^bmade a high place for yourself in every street.

Verse Comparison: Ezekiel 16:16

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American Standard Version
And thou didst take of thy garments, and madest for thee high places decked with divers colors, and playedst the harlot upon them: `the like things' shall not come, neither shall it be `so'.

Amplified® Bible
And you took some of your garments and made for yourself gaily decorated high places {or} shrines and played the harlot on them--things which should not come and that which should not take place.

Contemporary English Version
You made shrines for yourself and decorated them with some of your clothes. That's where you took your visitors to have sex with them. These things should never have happened!

Darby English Version
And of thy garments thou didst take, and madest for thyself high places decked with divers colours, and didst play the harlot thereupon: [the like] hath not come to pass, and shall be no more.

Good News Bible
You used some of your clothes to decorate your places of worship, and just like a prostitute, you gave yourself to everyone.

King James Version
And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.

New American Standard Bible
"You took some of your clothes, made for yourself high places of various colors and played the harlot on them, which should never come about nor happen.

New International Version
You took some of your garments to make gaudy high places, where you carried on your prostitution. Such things should not happen, nor should they ever occur.

New King James Version
You took some of your garments and adorned multicolored high places for yourself, and played the harlot on them. Such things should not happen, nor be.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"You took some of your clothes, made for yourself high places of various colors and played the harlot on them, which should never come about nor happen.

Revised Standard Version
You took some of your garments, and made for yourself gaily decked shrines, and on them played the harlot; the like has never been, nor ever shall be.

Young's Literal Translation
And thou dost take of thy garments, And dost make to thee spotted high-places, And dost go a-whoring upon them, They are not coming in -- nor shall it be!

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