Isaiah 57:8
Good News Translation
You set up your obscene idols just inside your front doors. You forsake me; you take off your clothes and climb in your large beds with your lovers, whom you pay to sleep with you. And there you satisfy your lust.

New Revised Standard Version
Behind the door and the doorpost you have set up your symbol; for, in deserting me, you have uncovered your bed, you have gone up to it, you have made it wide; and you have made a bargain for yourself with them, you have loved their bed, you have gazed on their nakedness.

Contemporary English Version
Even in your homes you have placed pagan symbols all around your huge beds. Yes, you have rejected me, sold yourselves to your lovers, and gone to bed with them.

New American Bible
Behind the door and the doorpost you set up your symbol. Yes, deserting me, you carried up your bedding; and spread it wide. You entered an agreement with them, you loved their couch, you gazed upon nakedness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And behind the door, and behind the post thou hast set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself near me, and hast received an adulterer: thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made a covenant with them: thou hast loved their bed with open hand.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And behind the door, and behind the post thou hast set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself near me, and hast received an adulterer: thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made a covenant with them: thou hast loved their bed with open hand.

the doors

Ezekiel 8:8-12 And he said to me: Son of man, dig in the wall, and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. . . .

Ezekiel 23:14,41 And she increased her fornications: and when she had seen men painted on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans set forth in colours, . . .

for

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

made thee a covenant with them.

Ezekiel 16:25-28 At every head of the way thou hast set up a sign of thy prostitution: and hast made thy beauty to be abominable: and hast prostituted thyself to every one that passed by, and hast multiplied thy fornications. . . .

Ezekiel 23:2-20 Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother. . . .

where thou sawest it.

Context
God Condemns Idolatry
7Upon a high and lofty mountain thou hast laid thy bed, and hast gone up thither to offer victims. 8And behind the door, and behind the post thou hast set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself near me, and hast received an adulterer: thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made a covenant with them: thou hast loved their bed with open hand.9And 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.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 16:15
But trusting in thy beauty, thou playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and thou hast prostituted thyself to every passenger, to be his.

Ezekiel 23:18
And she discovered her fornications, and discovered her disgrace: and my soul was alienated from her, as my soul was alienated from her sister.

Isaiah 57:7
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