Ezekiel 23:30
What does Ezekiel 23:30 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 23:30 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000These things shall be done unto thee, for that thou hast played the harlot after the nations, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
KJV
King James Version · 1611I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901These things shall be done unto thee, for that thou hast played the harlot after the nations, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949They will do these things to you because you have been untrue to me, and have gone after the nations, and have become unclean with their images.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862To do these things to thee, In thy going a-whoring after nations, Because thou hast been defiled with their idols,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752They have done these things to thee, because thou hast played the harlot with the nations among which thou wast defiled with their idols.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890These things shall be done unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the nations, because thou hast defiled thyself with their idols.
Context
v.29and they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take away all thy labor, and shall leave thee naked and bare; and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be uncovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
v.30This passage
v.31Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thy hand.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 22:8
And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this great city?
- Ezekiel 23:12
She doted upon the Assyrians, governors and rulers, her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
- Psalms 106:35
But mingled themselves with the nations, And learned their works,
- Ezekiel 6:9
And those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the harlot after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
- Ezekiel 23:7
And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and on whomsoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.
- Jeremiah 2:18
And now what hast thou to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? or what hast thou to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
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