Psalm 106:39
New International Version
They defiled themselves by what they did; by their deeds they prostituted themselves.

New Living Translation
They defiled themselves by their evil deeds, and their love of idols was adultery in the LORD’s sight.

English Standard Version
Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds.

Berean Standard Bible
They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

King James Bible
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

New King James Version
Thus they were defiled by their own works, And played the harlot by their own deeds.

New American Standard Bible
So they became unclean in their practices, And were unfaithful in their deeds.

NASB 1995
Thus they became unclean in their practices, And played the harlot in their deeds.

NASB 1977
Thus they became unclean in their practices, And played the harlot in their deeds.

Legacy Standard Bible
Thus they became unclean in their works, And played the harlot in their actions.

Amplified Bible
In this way they became unclean in their practices; They played the prostitute in their own deeds [by giving their worship, which belongs to God alone, to other “gods”].

Christian Standard Bible
They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

American Standard Version
Thus were they defiled with their works, And played the harlot in their doings.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
They were defiled by their works and they committed fornication with their inventions.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and was polluted with their works; and they went a whoring with their own devices.

Contemporary English Version
By doing such gruesome things, they also became filthy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
and was defiled with their works: and they went aside after their own inventions.

English Revised Version
Thus were they defiled with their works, and went a whoring in their doings.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They became filthy because of what they did. They behaved like prostitutes.

Good News Translation
They made themselves impure by their actions and were unfaithful to God.

International Standard Version
Therefore, they became unclean because of what they did; they have acted like whores by their evil deeds.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thus were they defiled with their works, And went astray in their doings.

Literal Standard Version
And they are defiled with their works, | And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.

Majority Standard Bible
They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

New American Bible
They defiled themselves by their actions, became adulterers by their conduct.

NET Bible
They were defiled by their deeds, and unfaithful in their actions.

New Revised Standard Version
Thus they became unclean by their acts, and prostituted themselves in their doings.

New Heart English Bible
Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went astray with their own inventions.

World English Bible
Thus they were defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.

Young's Literal Translation
And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Give Thanks to the LORD, for He is Good
38They shed innocent blood—the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood. 39They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds. 40So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.…

Cross References
Leviticus 17:7
They 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.'

Leviticus 18:24
Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.

Numbers 15:39
These 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 heart and your own eyes.

Judges 2:17
Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD's commandments; they did not do as their fathers had done.

Psalm 73:27
Those far from You will surely perish; You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.

Ezekiel 20:18
In the wilderness I said to their children: 'Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

Hosea 4:12
My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.


Treasury of Scripture

Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

defiled

Isaiah 24:5,6
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant…

Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

Ezekiel 20:18,30,31,43
But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols: …

went

Exodus 34:16
And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

Leviticus 17:7
And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.

Leviticus 20:5,6
Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people…

their own

Psalm 106:29
Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.

Jump to Previous
Acts Astray A-Whoring Commit Deeds Defiled Desires Doings Evil Habitual Harlot Inventions Played Practices Prostituted Themselves Unclean Whoredom Whoring Works
Jump to Next
Acts Astray A-Whoring Commit Deeds Defiled Desires Doings Evil Habitual Harlot Inventions Played Practices Prostituted Themselves Unclean Whoredom Whoring Works
Psalm 106
1. The psalmist exhorts to praise God
4. He prays for pardon of sin, as God pardoned the fathers
7. The story of the people's rebellion, and God's mercy
47. He concludes with prayer and praise














Verse 39. - Thus were they defiled with their own works. The heathen "works," which they adopted from them (ver. 35), had become "their own works," and made them a "defiled" and "polluted" people. And went a-whoring with their own inventions; i.e. "became spiritually adulterous," deserted God, and were unfaithful to him (comp. Ezekiel 23:2-21; Hosea 2:2-5).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
They defiled themselves
וַיִּטְמְא֥וּ (way·yiṭ·mə·’ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 2930: To be or become unclean

by their actions
בְמַעֲשֵׂיהֶ֑ם (ḇə·ma·‘ă·śê·hem)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 4639: An action, a transaction, activity, a product, property

and prostituted themselves
וַ֝יִּזְנוּ֗ (way·yiz·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 2181: To commit adultery, to commit idolatry

by their deeds.
בְּמַֽעַלְלֵיהֶֽם׃ (bə·ma·‘al·lê·hem)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 4611: A deed, practice


Links
Psalm 106:39 NIV
Psalm 106:39 NLT
Psalm 106:39 ESV
Psalm 106:39 NASB
Psalm 106:39 KJV

Psalm 106:39 BibleApps.com
Psalm 106:39 Biblia Paralela
Psalm 106:39 Chinese Bible
Psalm 106:39 French Bible
Psalm 106:39 Catholic Bible

OT Poetry: Psalm 106:39 Thus were they defiled with their works (Psalm Ps Psa.)
Psalm 106:38
Top of Page
Top of Page