Proverbs 8:3

World English Bible (2000)

Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entry doors, she cries aloud:

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 29:7 : 7 when I went forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
  • Matt 22:9 : 9 Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.'
  • Luke 14:21-23 : 21 "That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.' 22 "The servant said, 'Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.' 23 "The lord said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
  • John 18:20 : 20 Jesus answered him, "I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.
  • Acts 5:20 : 20 "Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life."

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    20 Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.

    21 She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:

  • Prov 8:1-2
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    1 Doesn't wisdom cry out? Doesn't understanding raise her voice?

    2 On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands.

  • Prov 9:2-4
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    2 She has prepared her meat. She has mixed her wine. She has also set her table.

    3 She has sent out her maidens. She cries from the highest places of the city:

    4 "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

  • Prov 9:13-16
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    13 The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing.

    14 She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

    15 To call to those who pass by, who go straight on their ways,

    16 "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here." as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

  • Prov 7:8-13
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    8 passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,

    9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

    10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

    11 She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house.

    12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

    13 So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

  • 34 Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.

  • 4 "To you men, I call! I send my voice to the sons of mankind.

  • 26 Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

  • 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!

  • 8 Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house,

  • 7 when I went forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.

  • Jer 17:19-20
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    19 Thus said Yahweh to me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

    20 and tell them, Hear the word of Yahweh, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:

  • 6 For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.

  • 23 Her husband is respected in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

  • Prov 3:17-18
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    17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.

    18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

  • 2 "Stand in the gate of Yahweh's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, 'Hear the word of Yahweh, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh.

  • Prov 7:25-27
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    25 Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths,

    26 for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

    27 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.

  • Song 3:2-3
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    2 I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him.

    3 The watchmen who go about the city found me; "Have you seen him whom my soul loves?"

  • Ps 118:19-20
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    19 Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to Yah.

    20 This is the gate of Yahweh; the righteous will enter into it.

  • 18 for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.

  • 7 As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.

  • 16 Then a wise woman cried out of the city, "Hear, hear! Please say to Joab, 'Come near here, that I may speak with you.'"

  • 26 Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, until it was light.

  • 4 and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;

  • 21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

  • 2 She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.

  • Ps 55:10-11
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    10 Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.

    11 Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don't depart from her streets.

  • 7 The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.

  • 8 Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.

  • 10 Who is she who looks forth as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners?

  • 9 If she is a wall, we will build on her a turret of silver. if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar. Beloved