Psalms 106:39
37 They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
38 They 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.
They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
40 So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.
41 He delivered them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
- KJV
- Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
- WEB
- Thus they were defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.
- ASV
- Thus were they defiled with their works, And played the harlot in their doings.
- DARBY
- And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings.
- BLB
- And they were defiled by their deeds and prostituted themselves by their practices.
- ÅB
- De ble urene ved sine gjerninger og drev hor ved sin adferd.
- OTB
- Så ble de urene ved sine gjerninger,
og var troløse i sine handlinger. - B1930
- De blev urene ved sine gjerninger og drev hor ved sin adferd.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 20:18
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.
Read in contextNumbers 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.
Read in contextLeviticus 17:7
They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons to which they have prostituted themselves. This will be a permanent statute for them for the generations to come.’
Read in contextHosea 9:1
Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.
Read in contextIsaiah 24:5–6
The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.
Read in contextEzekiel 20:30–31
Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did, prostituting yourselves with their abominations?
Read in contextEzekiel 20:43
There you will remember your ways and all the deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evils you have done.
Read in contextRevelation 17:1–6
Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.
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