31In that you build your eminent place in the head of every way, and make your high place in every street; and have not been as an harlot, in that you scorn hire;


In Context

28 You have played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the harlot with them, and yet could not be satisfied.

29 You have moreover multiplied your fornication in the land of Canaan to Chaldea; and yet you were not satisfied therewith.

30 How weak is your heart, said the LORD GOD, seeing you do all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;

31 In that you build your eminent place in the head of every way, and make your high place in every street; and have not been as an harlot, in that you scorn hire;

32 But as a wife that commits adultery, which takes strangers instead of her husband!

33 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.

Ezekiel 16:31 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

16:31In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

16:31When you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were unlike a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

16:31Because 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,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

16:31in that thou buildest thy vaulted place at the head of every way, and makest thy lofty place in every street, and hast not been as a harlot, in that thou scornest hire.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:31in that thou buildest thy place of debauchery at the head of every way, and makest thy high place in every street! And thou hast not been as a harlot, in that thou scornest reward,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

16:31in that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thy lofty place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:31In that thou buildest thy eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thy high place in every street; and hast not been as a harlot, in that thou scornest hire;

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:31in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

16:31In thy building thine arch at the head of every way, Thy high place thou hast made in every broad place, And — hast not been as a whore deriding a gift.