Ezekiel 16:12
Good News Translation
I gave you a nose ring and earrings and a beautiful crown to wear.

New Revised Standard Version
a ring on your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.

Contemporary English Version
a ring for your nose, some earrings, and a beautiful crown.

New American Bible
a ring in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I put a jewel upon thy forehead and earrings in thy ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I put a jewel upon thy forehead and earrings in thy ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.

Context
Jerusalem's Unfaithfulness
11I decked thee also with ornaments, and put bracelets on thy hands, and a chain about thy neck. 12And I put a jewel upon thy forehead and earrings in thy ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.13And thou wast adorned with gold, and silver, and wast clothed with fine linen, and embroidered work, and many colours: thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil, and wast made exceeding beautiful: and wast advanced to be a queen.…
Cross References
Genesis 24:47
And I asked her, and said: Whose daughter art thou? And she answered: I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Nachor, whom Melcha bore to him. So I put earrings on her to adorn her face, and I put bracelets on her hands.

Proverbs 25:12
As an earring of gold and a bright pearl, so is he that reproveth the wise, and the obedient ear.

Isaiah 3:21
And rings, and jewels hanging on the forehead,

Isaiah 28:5
In that day the Lord of hosts shall be a crown of glory, and a garland of joy to the residue of his people:

Jeremiah 13:18
Say to the king, and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory is come down from your head.

Ezekiel 16:14
And thy renown went forth among the nations for thy beauty: for thou wast perfect through my beauty, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God.

Ezekiel 16:17
And thou tookest thy beautiful vessels, of my gold, and my silver, which I gave thee, and thou madest thee images of men, and hast committed fornication with them.

Ezekiel 21:26
Thus saith the Lord God: Remove the diadem, take off the crown: is it not this that hath exalted the low one, and brought down him that was high?

Ezekiel 23:42
And there was in her the voice of a multitude rejoicing: and to some that were brought of the multitude of men, and that came from the desert, they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads.

Hosea 2:13
And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, to whom she burnt incense, and decked herself out with her earrings, and with her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:11
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