American King James Version
"But as a wife that commits adultery, which takes strangers instead of her husband! "
— Ezekiel 16:32, American King James Version
“But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!”
“A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband! ”
“A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!”
““‘Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!”
“But is an adulteress, that bringeth in strangers over her husband.”
“The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!”
“But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!”
You have moreover multiplied your fornication in the land of Canaan to Chaldea; and yet you were not satisfied therewith.
How weak is your heart, says the LORD GOD, seeing you do all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
In that you build your eminent place in the head of every way, and make your high place in every street; and have not been as an harlot, in that you scorn hire;
But as a wife that commits adultery, which takes strangers instead of her husband!
They give gifts to all whores: but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and hire them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.
And the contrary is in you from other women in your prostitutions, whereas none follows you to commit prostitutions: and in that you give a reward, and no reward is given to you, therefore you are contrary. ¶
Why, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD: