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Ezekiel 16:25

At 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.

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ASV

Thou 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.

KJV

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.

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17 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
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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Hosea 2:2Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.Jeremiah 3:2“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.Ezekiel 16:31But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were not even like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.Jeremiah 5:6Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces. For their rebellious acts are many, and their unfaithful deeds are numerous.Isaiah 57:7On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.Ezekiel 23:9–10Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians for whom she lusted.Jeremiah 2:23–24“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,Revelation 17:1–5Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.Ezekiel 23:32This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup deep and wide. It will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.Jeremiah 6:15Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD.Proverbs 9:14–15She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city,Isaiah 3:9The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves.Ezekiel 16:15But 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.Genesis 38:14she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.Revelation 17:12–13The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but will receive one hour of authority as kings, along with the beast.Revelation 17:16And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.Genesis 38:21He asked the men of that place, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “No shrine prostitute has been here,” they answered.Genesis 39:7and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”

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About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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