◄ Ezekiel 16:33 ►
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Good News Translation
A prostitute is paid, but you gave presents to all your lovers and bribed them to come from everywhere to sleep with you.

New Revised Standard Version
Gifts are given to all whores; but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from all around for your whorings.

Contemporary English Version
Prostitutes accept money for having sex, but you bribe men from everywhere to have sex with you.

New American Bible
Prostitutes usually receive gifts. But you bestowed gifts on all your lovers, bribing them to come to you for prostitution from every side.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Gifts are given to all harlots: but thou hast given hire to all thy lovers, and thou hast given them gifts to come to thee from every side, to commit fornication with thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Gifts are given to all harlots: but thou hast given hire to all thy lovers, and thou hast given them gifts to come to thee from every side, to commit fornication with thee.

give

Genesis 38:16-18 And going to her, he said: Suffer me to lie with thee: for he knew her not to be his daughter-in-law. And she answered: What wilt thou give me to enjoy my company? . . .

Deuteronomy 23:17,18 There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor whoremonger among the sons of Israel. . . .

Hosea 2:12 And I will destroy her vines, and her fig trees, of which she said: These are my rewards, which my lovers have given me: and I will make her as a forest and the beasts of the field shall devour her.

Joel 3:3 And they have cast lots upon my people: and the boy they have put in the stews, and the girl they have sold for wine, that they might drink.

Micah 1:7 And I will make Samaria as a heap of stones in the field when a vineyard is planted: and I will bring down the stones thereof into the valley, and will lay her foundations bare.

Luke 15:30 But as soon as this thy son is come, who hath devoured his substance with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

but thou

Isaiah 30:3,6,7 And the strength of Pharao shall be to your confusion, and the confidence of the shadow of Egypt to your shame. . . .

Isaiah 57:9 And thou hast adorned thyself for the king with ointment, and hast multiplied thy perfumes. Thou hast sent thy messengers far off, and wast debased even to hell.

Hosea 8:9,10 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath given gifts to his lovers. . . .

hirest [heb] bribest

Context
Jerusalem's Unfaithfulness
…32But is an adulteress, that bringeth in strangers over her husband. 33Gifts are given to all harlots: but thou hast given hire to all thy lovers, and thou hast given them gifts to come to thee from every side, to commit fornication with thee.34And it hath happened in thee contrary to the custom of women in thy fornications, and after thee there shall be no such fornication, for in that thou gavest rewards, and didst not take rewards, the contrary hath been done in thee.…
Cross References
Isaiah 57:9
And thou hast adorned thyself for the king with ointment, and hast multiplied thy perfumes. Thou hast sent thy messengers far off, and wast debased even to hell.

Ezekiel 16:32
But is an adulteress, that bringeth in strangers over her husband.

Ezekiel 16:34
And it hath happened in thee contrary to the custom of women in thy fornications, and after thee there shall be no such fornication, for in that thou gavest rewards, and didst not take rewards, the contrary hath been done in thee.

Ezekiel 16:41
And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and shall execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and thou shalt cease from fornication, and shalt give no hire any more.

Hosea 8:9
For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath given gifts to his lovers.

Hosea 8:10
But even though they shall have hired the nations, now will I gather them together: and they shall rest a while from the burden of the king, and the princes.

Ezekiel 16:32
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