Ezekiel 16:35
New International Version
“’Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the LORD!

New Living Translation
“Therefore, you prostitute, listen to this message from the LORD!

English Standard Version
“Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD:

Berean Standard Bible
Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD!

King James Bible
Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:

New King James Version
‘Now then, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD!

New American Standard Bible
Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the LORD.

NASB 1995
Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD.

NASB 1977
Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD.

Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of Yahweh.

Amplified Bible
Therefore, O prostitute [Israel], hear the word of the LORD.

Christian Standard Bible
“ ‘Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the LORD!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the LORD!

American Standard Version
Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of Jehovah:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because of this, whore, hear the word of LORD JEHOVAH

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Therefore, harlot, hear the word of the Lord:

Contemporary English Version
Jerusalem, you prostitute, listen to me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord.

English Revised Version
Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
" 'Listen to the word of the LORD, you prostitute.

Good News Translation
Now then, Jerusalem, you whore! Hear what the LORD is saying.

International Standard Version
"Therefore listen to this message from the LORD, you whore!

JPS Tanakh 1917
Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD!

Literal Standard Version
Therefore, O whore, hear a word of YHWH!

Majority Standard Bible
Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD!

New American Bible
Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of the LORD!

NET Bible
"'Therefore O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD:

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore, O whore, hear the word of the LORD:

New Heart English Bible
"Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of the LORD:

Webster's Bible Translation
Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:

World English Bible
“Therefore, prostitute, hear Yahweh’s word:

Young's Literal Translation
Therefore, O whore, hear a word of Jehovah,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Judgment on Jerusalem
35Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD! 36This is what the Lord GOD says: Because you poured out your wealth and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them,…

Cross References
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 16:36
This is what the Lord GOD says: Because you poured out your wealth and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them,


Treasury of Scripture

Why, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:

O harlot

Isaiah 1:21
How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

Isaiah 23:15,16
And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot…

Jeremiah 3:1,6-8
They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD…

hear

Ezekiel 13:2
Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD;

Ezekiel 20:47
And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

Ezekiel 34:7
Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

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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














Verse 35. - From the task of painting the guilt of Judah the prophet proceeds to that of denouncing its punishment.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Therefore,
לָכֵ֣ן (lā·ḵên)
Adverb
Strong's 3651: So -- thus

O prostitute,
זוֹנָ֔ה (zō·w·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2181: To commit adultery, to commit idolatry

hear
שִׁמְעִ֖י (šim·‘î)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

the word
דְּבַר־ (də·ḇar-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

of the LORD!
יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel


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