Ezekiel 16:31
Good News Translation
On every street you built places to worship idols and practice prostitution. But you are not out for money like a common prostitute.

New Revised Standard Version
building your platform at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square! Yet you were not like a whore, because you scorned payment.

Contemporary English Version
You had sex on every street corner, and when you finished, you refused to accept money. That's worse than being a prostitute!

New American Bible
when you built your platform at every intersection and set up your high place in every public square. But unlike a prostitute, you disdained payment.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because thou hast built thy brothel house at the head of every way, and thou hast made thy high place in every street: and wast not as a harlot that by disdain enhanceth her price,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Because thou hast built thy brothel house at the head of every way, and thou hast made thy high place in every street: and wast not as a harlot that by disdain enhanceth her price,

In that thou buildest thine.

Ezekiel 16:24,39 That thou didst also build thee a common stew, and madest thee a brothel house in every street. . . .

makest

Ezekiel 16:25 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.

Hosea 12:11 If Galaad be an idol, then in vain were they in Galgal offering sacrifices with bullocks: for their altars also are as heaps in the furrows of the field.

in that thou scornest

Ezekiel 16:33,34 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. . . .

Isaiah 52:3 For thus saith the Lord: You were sold gratis, and you shall be redeemed, without money.

Context
Jerusalem's Unfaithfulness
30Wherein shall I cleanse thy heart, saith Lord God: seeing thou dost all these the works of a shameless prostitute? 31Because thou hast built thy brothel house at the head of every way, and thou hast made thy high place in every street: and wast not as a harlot that by disdain enhanceth her price,32But is an adulteress, that bringeth in strangers over her husband.…
Cross References
Isaiah 52:3
For thus saith the Lord: You were sold gratis, and you shall be redeemed, without money.

Ezekiel 16:24
That thou didst also build thee a common stew, and madest thee a brothel house in every street.

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

Ezekiel 16:30
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