Psalms 106:39
They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
BSB
ASV
Thus were they defiled with their works, And played the harlot in their doings.
KJV
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions. Not only the land but the inhabitants of it were polluted. They broke the marriage bond between them and the Lord, and fell into spiritual adultery. The language is strong, but the offence could not be fitly described in less forcible words.
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Numbers 15:39These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own…
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Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that…
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Those far from You will surely perish; You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.
He who trusts in himself is a fool, but one who walks in wisdom will be safe.
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Leviticus 17:7They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons to which they have prostituted themselves. This will be a permanent statute for them for the generations to come.’
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No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.
Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.
They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.
And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.
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Ezekiel 20:43There you will remember your ways and all the deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evils you have done.
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Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”