Isaiah 57:8-9

Israel's Futile Idolatry

8 Behind the door and the doorpost
you have set up your memorial;
for, deserting me, c you have uncovered your bed,
you have gone up to it,
d you have made it wide;
and you have made a covenant for yourself with them,
you have loved their bed,
you have looked on nakedness. 1
9 You journeyed to the king with oil
and multiplied your perfumes;
e you sent your envoys far off,
and sent down even to Sheol.

  1. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:25
    At the head of every street you built your lofty place and made your beauty an abomination, offering yourself to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.
    Hosea 1:2
    When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, "Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.
  2. Cross References
    Ezekiel 23:17
    And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, she turned from them in disgust.
  3. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:26
    You also played the whore with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your whoring, to provoke me to anger.
    Ezekiel 16:28 - 29
    You played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied.
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