Ezekiel 16:57

KJV1611 – Modern English

Before your wickedness was discovered, as at the time of your reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, who despise you round about.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    before your own wickedness was exposed, like the time you were taunted by the daughters of Aram and all her neighbors, and by the daughters of the Philistines, who looked down on you from every side.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    before thy wickedness{H7451} was uncovered,{H1540} as at the time{H6256} of the reproach{H2781} of the daughters{H1323} of Syria,{H758} and of all that are round about{H5439} her, the daughters{H1323} of the Philistines,{H6430} that do despite{H7590} unto thee round about.{H5439}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Before thy wickedness{H7451} was discovered{H1540}{(H8735)}, as at the time{H6256} of thy reproach{H2781} of the daughters{H1323} of Syria{H758}, and all that are round about{H5439} her, the daughters{H1323} of the Philistines{H6430}, which despise{H7590}{(H8801)} thee round about{H5439}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    and before thy wickednesse came to light: thou woldest not heare speake of thy sister Sodoma, vntill the tyme that the Sirians with all their townes, and the Philistynes with all that lye rounde aboute them, brought the to shame and confucion:

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Before thy wickednes was discouered, as in that same time of the reproch of the daughters of Aram, and of all the daughters of the Philistims round about her which despise thee on all sides.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Before thy wickednesse was discouered, according to the tyme of the reproche of the daughters of Aram, and of all the daughters of the Philistines rounde about her, whiche depise thee on all sides.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of [thy] reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all [that are] round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all who are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, who do despite to you round about.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Before thy wickedness is revealed, As `at' the time of the reproach of the daughters of Aram, And of all her neighbours, the daughters of the Philistines, Who are despising thee round about.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    before thy wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, that do despite unto thee round about.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    before thy wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, that do despite unto thee round about.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Before your shame was uncovered? Now you have become like her a word of shame to the daughters of Edom and all who are round about you, the daughters of the Philistines who put shame on you round about.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all who are around her, the daughters of the Philistines, who do despite to you all around.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    before your evil was exposed? Now you have become an object of scorn to the daughters of Aram and all those around her and to the daughters of the Philistines– those all around you who despise you.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 16:5-7 : 5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to wage war; and they besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him. 6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath for Syria, and drove the Jews from Elath; the Syrians came to Elath and have dwelt there to this day. 7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am your servant and your son; come up and save me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.
  • 2 Chr 28:5-6 : 5 Therefore, the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria, and they struck him and carried away a great multitude as captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with a great slaughter. 6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all valiant men, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.
  • 2 Chr 28:18-23 : 18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, Ajalon, and Gederoth, Shocho with its villages, Timnah with its villages, Gimzo also and its villages, and they dwelt there. 19 For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he made Judah act wickedly and transgressed grievously against the LORD. 20 And Tilgath-Pilneser king of Assyria came to him, and distressed him, but did not strengthen him. 21 For Ahaz took a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house of the king, and of the leaders, and gave it to the king of Assyria, but he did not help him. 22 And in the time of his distress, he trespassed yet more against the LORD, this is that King Ahaz. 23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, who had struck him, and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore I will sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
  • Isa 7:1 : 1 And it happened in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to make war against it, but could not prevail against it.
  • Ezek 16:36-37 : 36 Thus says the Lord GOD; Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your whoredoms with your lovers, and with all the idols of your abominations, and by the blood of your children, which you gave to them: 37 Behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those that you have loved, with all those that you have hated; I will even gather them round about against you, and will uncover your nakedness unto them, that they may see all your nakedness.
  • Ezek 21:24 : 24 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear; because you are come to remembrance, you shall be taken with the hand.
  • Ezek 23:18-19 : 18 So she uncovered her harlotries, and uncovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, just as my mind was alienated from her sister. 19 Yet she multiplied her harlotries, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, when she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
  • Hos 2:10 : 10 And now I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall rescue her out of my hand.
  • Hos 7:1 : 1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was exposed, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief comes in, and the gang of robbers plunders outside.
  • 1 Cor 4:5 : 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts; and then each person will receive praise from God.
  • Gen 10:22-23 : 22 The children of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. 23 And the children of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
  • Num 23:7 : 7 And he took up his parable and said, Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, defy Israel.
  • Isa 14:28 : 28 In the year that King Ahaz died was this burden.
  • Jer 33:24 : 24 Do you not consider what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD has chosen, he has even cast them off? Thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
  • Lam 4:22 : 22 The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no longer carry you away into captivity; he will visit your iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will uncover your sins.
  • Ps 50:21 : 21 These things you have done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether like you: but I will reprove you, and set them in order before your eyes.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 58 You have borne your lewdness and your abominations, says the LORD.

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    51 Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters in all your abominations which you have done.

    52 You also, who have judged your sisters, bear your own shame for your sins that you have committed more abominable than they; they are more righteous than you; yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.

    53 When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of your captives in the midst of them;

    54 That you may bear your own shame, and may be confounded in all that you have done, in that you are a comfort unto them.

    55 When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, then you and your daughters shall return to your former state.

    56 For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,

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    25 You have built your high place at every head of the way, and have made your beauty to be abhorred, and have opened your feet to everyone that passed by, and multiplied your whoredoms.

    26 You have also committed fornication with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have increased your whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

    27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary food, and delivered you to the will of those that hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.

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

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    43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have grieved me in all these things; behold, therefore I will recompense your way upon your head, says the Lord GOD; and you shall not commit this lewdness above all your abominations.

    44 Behold, everyone that uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

    45 You are your mother's daughter, that loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathe their husbands and their children; your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

    46 And your elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at your left hand; and your younger sister, that dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

    47 Yet you have not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as if that were a very little thing, you were corrupted more than they in all your ways.

    48 As I live, says the Lord GOD, neither has your sister Sodom and her daughters done anything as you have done, you and your daughters.

  • 5 Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts; and I will lift your skirts over your face, and I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.

  • Jer 13:26-27
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    26 Therefore I will expose your skirts upon your face, that your shame may appear.

    27 I have seen your adulteries, and your neighings, the lewdness of your whoredom, and your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! Will you not be made clean? When shall it once be?

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    14 And your fame went out among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect through my splendor, which I had bestowed upon you, says the Lord GOD.

    15 But you trusted in your own beauty, and played the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your fornications on everyone that passed by; it was his.

    16 And of your garments you took, and decked your high places with different colors, and played the harlot thereupon; such things shall not come, nor shall it be so.

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    35 Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD;

    36 Thus says the Lord GOD; Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your whoredoms with your lovers, and with all the idols of your abominations, and by the blood of your children, which you gave to them:

    37 Behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those that you have loved, with all those that you have hated; I will even gather them round about against you, and will uncover your nakedness unto them, that they may see all your nakedness.

    38 And I will judge you, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give you blood in fury and jealousy.

    39 And I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your eminent place, and shall break down your high places; they shall strip you also of your clothes, and shall take your beautiful jewels, and leave you naked and bare.

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

    31 In that you build your eminent place at the head of every way, and make your high place in every street; and have not been as a harlot, that scorns payment;

  • 4 Why do you boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? Who trusted in her treasures, saying, Who will come against me?

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    22 And in all your abominations and your whoredoms you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were polluted in your blood.

    23 And it came to pass after all your wickedness, (woe, woe unto you! says the Lord GOD;)

  • Lam 1:8-10
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    8 Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yes, she sighs, and turns backward.

    9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she does not remember her last end; therefore she came down astonishingly: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction, for the enemy has magnified himself.

    10 The adversary has spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she has seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom you commanded that they should not enter into your congregation.

  • 61 Then you shall remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, your elder and your younger; and I will give them unto you for daughters, but not by your covenant.

  • 22 This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you and laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

  • 15 What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.

  • 11 In that day you shall not be ashamed for all your deeds, wherein you have transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of you those that rejoice in your pride, and you shall no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.

  • 5 Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you, who are infamous and much vexed.

  • Isa 3:16-17
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    16 Moreover the LORD says, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, making a tinkling with their feet:

    17 Therefore the Lord will strike with a scab the crown of the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will uncover their secret parts.

  • 14 Moreover I will make you a waste, and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.

  • 16 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • 11 One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

  • 41 And they shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women; and I will cause you to cease from playing the harlot, and you also shall give no remuneration any more.

  • 30 I will do these things to you, because you have gone a whoring after the heathen, and because you are polluted with their idols.

  • 3 Therefore, the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a harlot's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.

  • 13 In your filthiness is depravity: because I have purged you, and you were not purged, you shall not be purged of your filthiness anymore, until I have caused my fury to rest upon you.