Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version They defiled themselves by what they did; by their deeds they prostituted themselves. New Living Translation They defiled themselves by their evil deeds, and their love of idols was adultery in the LORD’s sight. English Standard Version Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds. Berean Standard Bible They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds. King James Bible Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions. New King James Version Thus they were defiled by their own works, And played the harlot by their own deeds. New American Standard Bible So they became unclean in their practices, And were unfaithful in their deeds. NASB 1995 Thus they became unclean in their practices, And played the harlot in their deeds. NASB 1977 Thus they became unclean in their practices, And played the harlot in their deeds. Legacy Standard Bible Thus they became unclean in their works, And played the harlot in their actions. Amplified Bible In this way they became unclean in their practices; They played the prostitute in their own deeds [by giving their worship, which belongs to God alone, to other “gods”]. Christian Standard Bible They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds. Holman Christian Standard Bible They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds. American Standard Version Thus were they defiled with their works, And played the harlot in their doings. Contemporary English Version By doing such gruesome things, they also became filthy. English Revised Version Thus were they defiled with their works, and went a whoring in their doings. GOD'S WORD® Translation They became filthy because of what they did. They behaved like prostitutes. Good News Translation They made themselves impure by their actions and were unfaithful to God. International Standard Version Therefore, they became unclean because of what they did; they have acted like whores by their evil deeds. Majority Standard Bible They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds. NET Bible They were defiled by their deeds, and unfaithful in their actions. New Heart English Bible Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds. Webster's Bible Translation Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went astray with their own inventions. World English Bible Thus they were defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionAnd they are defiled with their works, "" And commit whoredom in their habitual doings. Young's Literal Translation And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings. Smith's Literal Translation And they will be defiled with their works: and they will commit fornication in their doings. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims Bibleand was defiled with their works: and they went aside after their own inventions. Catholic Public Domain Version New American Bible They defiled themselves by their actions, became adulterers by their conduct. New Revised Standard Version Thus they became unclean by their acts, and prostituted themselves in their doings. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleThus were they defiled with their own works, and went awhoring with their own inventions. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated They were defiled by their works and they committed fornication with their inventions. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Thus were they defiled with their works, And went astray in their doings. Brenton Septuagint Translation and was polluted with their works; and they went a whoring with their own devices. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Give Thanks to the LORD, for He is Good…38They shed innocent blood—the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood. 39They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds. 40So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.… Cross References Leviticus 18:24-30 Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves. / Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants. / But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you. ... Numbers 15:39 These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes. Judges 2:17 Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments; they did not do as their fathers had done. 2 Kings 17:15 They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate. 2 Chronicles 36:14 Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem. Isaiah 1:4 Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him. Jeremiah 2:23-25 “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there, / a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her. / You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’ Ezekiel 20:18-21 In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols. / I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. / Keep My Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us, so that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’ ... Hosea 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved. Amos 2:4 This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked. Romans 1:21-25 For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. / Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, / and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. ... 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, / nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. / And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. Galatians 5:19-21 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; / idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, / and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. Ephesians 4:17-19 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. / They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts. / Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more. Colossians 3:5-7 Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry. / Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. / When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways. Treasury of Scripture Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions. defiled Isaiah 24:5,6 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant… Isaiah 59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. Ezekiel 20:18,30,31,43 But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols: … went Exodus 34:16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. Leviticus 17:7 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations. Leviticus 20:5,6 Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people… their own Psalm 106:29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them. Jump to Previous Acts Astray A-Whoring Commit Deeds Defiled Desires Doings Evil Habitual Harlot Inventions Played Practices Prostituted Themselves Unclean Whoredom Whoring WorksJump to Next Acts Astray A-Whoring Commit Deeds Defiled Desires Doings Evil Habitual Harlot Inventions Played Practices Prostituted Themselves Unclean Whoredom Whoring WorksPsalm 106 1. The psalmist exhorts to praise God4. He prays for pardon of sin, as God pardoned the fathers 7. The story of the people's rebellion, and God's mercy 47. He concludes with prayer and praise They defiled themselves The Hebrew root for "defiled" is "טָמֵא" (tame), which conveys a sense of becoming unclean or impure. In the context of ancient Israel, defilement was not merely a physical state but a spiritual one, indicating a separation from God's holiness. The Israelites, chosen to be a holy nation, were called to maintain purity in their worship and conduct. This phrase underscores the gravity of their actions, which led them away from God's intended path of righteousness and holiness. by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew They defiled themselvesוַיִּטְמְא֥וּ (way·yiṭ·mə·’ū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 2930: To be or become unclean by their actions בְמַעֲשֵׂיהֶ֑ם (ḇə·ma·‘ă·śê·hem) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 4639: An action, a transaction, activity, a product, property and prostituted themselves וַ֝יִּזְנוּ֗ (way·yiz·nū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 2181: To commit adultery, to commit idolatry by their deeds. בְּמַֽעַלְלֵיהֶֽם׃ (bə·ma·‘al·lê·hem) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 4611: A deed, practice Links Psalm 106:39 NIVPsalm 106:39 NLT Psalm 106:39 ESV Psalm 106:39 NASB Psalm 106:39 KJV Psalm 106:39 BibleApps.com Psalm 106:39 Biblia Paralela Psalm 106:39 Chinese Bible Psalm 106:39 French Bible Psalm 106:39 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 106:39 Thus were they defiled with their works (Psalm Ps Psa.) |
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