Ezekiel 16:30
Good News Translation
This is what the Sovereign LORD is saying: "You have done all this like a shameless prostitute.

New Revised Standard Version
How sick is your heart, says the Lord GOD, that you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen whore;

Contemporary English Version
I, the LORD God, say that you were so disgusting that you would have done anything to get what you wanted.

New American Bible
How wild your lust!—oracle of the Lord GOD—that you did all these works of a shameless prostitute,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherein shall I cleanse thy heart, saith Lord God: seeing thou dost all these the works of a shameless prostitute?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wherein shall I cleanse thy heart, saith Lord God: seeing thou dost all these the works of a shameless prostitute?

weak

Proverbs 9:13 Sat at the door of her house, upon a seat, in a high place of the city,

Isaiah 1:3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.

Jeremiah 2:12,13 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and ye gates thereof, be very desolate, saith the Lord. . . .

Jeremiah 4:22 For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish and senseless children: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

the work

Judges 16:15,16 And Dalila said to him: How dost thou say thou lovest me, when thy mind is not with me? Thou hast told me lies these three times, and wouldst not tell me wherein thy greatest strength lieth. . . .

Proverbs 7:11-13,21 Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners. . . .

Isaiah 3:9 The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it: woe to their souls, for evils are rendered to them.

Jeremiah 3:3 Therefore the showers were withholden, and there was no lateward rain: thou hadst a harlot's forehead, thou wouldst not blush.

Revelation 17:1-6 And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven vials and spoke with me, saying: Come, I will shew thee the condemnation of the great harlot, who sitteth upon many waters: . . .

Context
Jerusalem's Unfaithfulness
29Thou hast also multiplied thy fornications in the land of Chanaan with the Chaldeans: and neither so wast thou satisfied. 30Wherein shall I cleanse thy heart, saith Lord God: seeing thou dost all these the works of a shameless prostitute?31Because thou hast built thy brothel house at the head of every way, and thou hast made thy high place in every street: and wast not as a harlot that by disdain enhanceth her price,…
Cross References
Proverbs 9:13
Sat at the door of her house, upon a seat, in a high place of the city,

Isaiah 1:3
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.

Isaiah 3:9
The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it: woe to their souls, for evils are rendered to them.

Jeremiah 3:3
Therefore the showers were withholden, and there was no lateward rain: thou hadst a harlot's forehead, thou wouldst not blush.

Jeremiah 4:22
For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish and senseless children: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Ezekiel 16:29
Thou hast also multiplied thy fornications in the land of Chanaan with the Chaldeans: and neither so wast thou satisfied.

Ezekiel 16:29
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