Ezekiel 16:33
New International Version
All prostitutes receive gifts, but you give gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.

New Living Translation
Prostitutes charge for their services—but not you! You give gifts to your lovers, bribing them to come and have sex with you.

English Standard Version
Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings.

Berean Standard Bible
Men give gifts to all their prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.

King James Bible
They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.

New King James Version
Men make payment to all harlots, but you made your payments to all your lovers, and hired them to come to you from all around for your harlotry.

New American Standard Bible
Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you give your gifts to all your lovers and lavish favors on them so that they will come to you from every direction for your obscene practices.

NASB 1995
“Men give gifts to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers to bribe them to come to you from every direction for your harlotries.

NASB 1977
“Men give gifts to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers to bribe them to come to you from every direction for your harlotries.

Legacy Standard Bible
Men give gifts to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers to bribe them to come to you from all around for your harlotries.

Amplified Bible
Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, bribing the pagan nations to come to you [as allies] from every direction for your obscene immoralities.

Christian Standard Bible
Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from all around for your sexual favors.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from all around for your sexual favors.

American Standard Version
They give gifts to all harlots; but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and bribest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredoms.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
To all whores they give payment, and you have given payment to all your lovers, and you have bribed them with your fornications that they would come to you from all around you

Brenton Septuagint Translation
She has even given rewards to all that went a-whoring after her, and thou hast given rewards to all thy lovers, yea, thou didst load them with rewards, that they should come to thee from every side for thy fornication.

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

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.

English Revised Version
They give gifts to all harlots: but thou gavest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and bribest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredoms.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
All prostitutes get paid. But you give gifts to all your lovers and bribe them to come to you from all directions to have sex with you.

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.

International Standard Version
"All prostitutes receive gifts, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, then you bribe them to come to you from everywhere to get your sexual favors!

JPS Tanakh 1917
to all harlots gifts are given; but thou hast given thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hast bribed them to come unto thee from every side in thy harlotries.

Literal Standard Version
They give a gift to all whores, | And you have given your gifts to all your lovers, | And bribe them to come in to you, | From all around—in your whoredoms.

Majority Standard Bible
Men give gifts to all their prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.

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.

NET Bible
All prostitutes receive payment, but instead you give gifts to every one of your lovers. You bribe them to come to you from all around for your sexual favors!

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.

New Heart English Bible
They give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.

Webster's Bible Translation
They give gifts to all lewd women: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come to thee on every side for thy lewdness.

World English Bible
People give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.

Young's Literal Translation
To all whores they give a gift, And -- thou hast given thy gifts to all thy lovers, And dost bribe them to come in unto thee, From round about -- in thy whoredoms.

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Context
Jerusalem's Unfaithfulness
32You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband! 33Men give gifts to all their prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors. 34So your prostitution is the opposite of that of other women: No one solicited your favors, and you paid a fee instead of receiving one; so you are the very opposite!…

Cross References
Isaiah 57:9
You went to Molech with oil and multiplied your perfumes. You have sent your envoys a great distance; you have descended even to Sheol itself.

Ezekiel 16:32
You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband!

Ezekiel 16:34
So your prostitution is the opposite of that of other women: No one solicited your favors, and you paid a fee instead of receiving one; so you are the very opposite!

Ezekiel 16:41
Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will never again pay your lovers.

Hosea 8:9
For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.

Hosea 8:10
Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.


Treasury of Scripture

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.

give

Genesis 38:16-18
And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me? …

Deuteronomy 23:17,18
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel…

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

but thou

Isaiah 30:3,6,7
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion…

Isaiah 57:9
And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.

Hosea 8:9,10
For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers…

hirest [heb] bribest

Jump to Previous
Bribe Bribed Cheap Direction Everywhere Favors Fee Gavest Gifts Givest Harlotries Harlots Love Lovers Offering Payment Prostitute Prostitutes Prostitution Receives Rewards Side Whoredom Whoredoms Whores Women
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Bribe Bribed Cheap Direction Everywhere Favors Fee Gavest Gifts Givest Harlotries Harlots Love Lovers Offering Payment Prostitute Prostitutes Prostitution Receives Rewards Side Whoredom Whoredoms Whores Women
Ezekiel 16
1. Under the parable of a wretched infant is shown the natural state of Jerusalem
6. God's extraordinary love toward her,
15. Her grievous judgment
35. Her sin, equal to her mother,
46. and exceeding her sisters, Sodom and Samaria,
59. calls for judgments
60. Mercy is promised her in the end














(33) Thou givest thy gifts.--2Kings 16:8-9, may be referred to as an instance in illustration. Ahaz "took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the Lord," as well as "the treasures of the king's house," and used it to secure the alliance of the king of Assyria.

The prophet, having up to this point described the sin, now turns to pronounce the punishment upon Israel (Ezekiel 16:35-52). The same allegory is still preserved, and the punishment is depicted in the same figurative language as the sin. This portion of the prophecy may be subdivided into two parts, in the first of which (Ezekiel 16:35-43) the punishment itself is described in terms taken from the legal punishment of the adulteress and murderess; while in the second (Ezekiel 16:44-52) the justice of this doom is vindicated, especially by a comparison with Samaria on the one side, and with Sodom on the other.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Men give
יִתְּנוּ־ (yit·tə·nū-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

gifts
נֵ֑דֶה (nê·ḏeh)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5078: A bounty

to all
לְכָל־ (lə·ḵāl)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

[their] prostitutes,
זֹנ֖וֹת (zō·nō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 2181: To commit adultery, to commit idolatry

but you
וְאַ֨תְּ (wə·’at)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - second person feminine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

gave
נָתַ֤תְּ (nā·ṯat)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

gifts
נְדָנַ֙יִךְ֙ (nə·ḏā·na·yiḵ)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 5083: A present

to all
לְכָל־ (lə·ḵāl)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

your lovers.
מְאַֽהֲבַ֔יִךְ (mə·’a·hă·ḇa·yiḵ)
Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 157: To have affection f

You bribed
וַתִּשְׁחֳדִ֣י (wat·tiš·ḥo·ḏî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 7809: To give a present, bribe

them
אוֹתָ֗ם (’ō·w·ṯām)
Direct object marker | third person masculine plural
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

to come
לָב֥וֹא (lā·ḇō·w)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

to you
אֵלַ֛יִךְ (’ê·la·yiḵ)
Preposition | second person feminine singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

from everywhere
מִסָּבִ֖יב (mis·sā·ḇîḇ)
Preposition-m | Adverb
Strong's 5439: A circle, neighbour, environs, around

for your illicit favors.
בְּתַזְנוּתָֽיִךְ׃ (bə·ṯaz·nū·ṯā·yiḵ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 8457: Harlotry, idolatry


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