Ezekiel 16:16 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.

Ezekiel 16:16

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New International Version (©1984)
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 American Standard Bible (©1995)
"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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You took some of your clothes and made your worship sites colorful. This is where you acted like a prostitute. Such things shouldn't happen. They shouldn't occur.

King James Bible
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.

American King James Version
And of your garments you did take, and decked your high places with divers colors, and played the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.

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 .

Bible in Basic English
And you took your robes and made high places for yourself ornamented with every colour, acting like a loose woman on them, without shame or fear.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And taking of thy garments thou hast made thee high places sewed together on each side: and hast played the harlot upon them, as hath not been done before, nor shall be hereafter.

Darby Bible Translation
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.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
And of thy garments thou didst take, and deck thy high places with divers colors, and play the harlot upon them: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.

World English Bible
You took of your garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them: [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so].

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!

Geneva Study Bible

And of thy garments thou didst take, and didst deck thy high places with various colours, {m} and didst play the harlot upon them: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.

(m) This declares how the idolaters put their chief delight in those things which please the eyes and outward senses.

16:16 Thy garments - Those costly, royal robes, the very wedding clothes. High places - Where the idol was. With divers colours - With those beautiful clothes I put upon thee. The like things - As there was none before her that had done thus, so shall there be none to follow her in these things.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

16. deckedst . with divers colours-or, "didst make . of divers colors" [Fairbairn]; the metaphor and the literal are here mixed. The high places whereon they sacrificed to Astarte are here compared to tents of divers colors, which an impudent harlot would spread to show her house was open to all [Calvin]. Compare as to "woven hangings for Astarte" (the right translation for "grove") 2Ki 23:7.

the like . shall not come, neither shall . be-rather, "have not come, nor shall be." These thy doings are unparalleled in the past, and shall be so in the future.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

16:1-58 In this chapter God's dealings with the Jewish nation, and their conduct towards him, are described, and their punishment through the surrounding nations, even those they most trusted in. This is done under the parable of an exposed infant rescued from death, educated, espoused, and richly provided for, but afterwards guilty of the most abandoned conduct, and punished for it; yet at last received into favour, and ashamed of her base conduct. We are not to judge of these expressions by modern ideas, but by those of the times and places in which they were used, where many of them would not sound as they do to us. The design was to raise hatred to idolatry, and such a parable was well suited for that purpose.

Ezekiel 16:15 "But you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot because of your fame, and you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by who might be willing.

Ezekiel 16:17 "You also took your beautiful jewels made of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images that you might play the harlot with them. (NASB ©1995)

Acting A-whoring Carried Clothes Colors Colour Colours Deck Decked Deckedst Divers Fear Gaily Garments Gaudy Harlot High-places Loose Madest Occur Ornamented Pass Places Play Played Playedst Prostitute Prostitution Robes Shame Shrines Spotted Thereupon Thyself Various Yourselves

Acting Carried Colors Colour Colours Deck Decked Deckedst Divers Garments Harlot High Loose Ornamented Places Play Played Playedst Prostitute Prostitution Robes Shame Shrines Thereupon Various Yourselves

Acting Carried Colors Colour Colours Deck Decked Deckedst Divers Garments Harlot High Loose Ornamented Places Play Played Playedst Prostitute Prostitution Robes Shame Shrines Thereupon Various Yourselves

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.

Eze 7:20 2Ki 23:7 2Ch 28:24 Ho 2:8

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