Proverbs 7:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.”
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“Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)”
King James Version · Public Domain“Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.)”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) --”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Proverbs 7:12 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Proverbs 7:8crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house,
- Proverbs 9:14She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city,
- Proverbs 23:28Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.
- Jeremiah 2:20“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
- Jeremiah 2:33How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.
- Jeremiah 2:36How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.
- Jeremiah 3:2“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
- Ezekiel 16:24you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square.
- Ezekiel 16:31But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were not even like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.
- Revelation 18:3All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”
- Revelation 18:23The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”
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