And they will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments against you in the sight of many women. Then I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will also no longer pay your lovers.
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- WEB They will burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute, and you will also give no hire any more.
- KJV And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.
- BSB Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will never again pay your lovers.
- NKJV They shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; and I will make you cease playing the harlot, and you shall no longer hire lovers.
- NLT They will burn your homes and punish you in front of many women. I will stop your prostitution and end your payments to your many lovers.
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Quick answer
Her houses will be burned and judgment executed publicly, ending her harlotry. The discipline aims to stop her sin.
Overview
The burning of houses depicts Babylon's destruction of Jerusalem, carried out 'in the sight of many women,' that is, the watching nations. The stated purpose is to make her 'cease from playing the prostitute.' God's judgment, however severe, is aimed at putting an end to sin, a sobering mercy within the wrath.
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- Ezek 23:48“‘Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to be lewd like you.
- Jer 39:8The Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
- Jer 52:13He burned Yahweh’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.
- 2 Kgs 25:9He burned Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.
- Ezek 23:27Thus I will make your lewdness to cease from you, and remove your prostitution from the land of Egypt; so that you will not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.’
- Ezek 5:8therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.
- Deut 13:16You shall gather all its plunder into the middle of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, and all every bit of its plunder, to Yahweh your God. It shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again.
- Ezek 23:10These uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters; and they killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.
- Isa 2:18The idols shall utterly pass away.
- Ezek 37:23neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
- Mic 5:10–14“It will happen in that day”, says Yahweh, “that I will cut off your horses out from among you, and will destroy your chariots.
- Deut 22:24then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
- Mic 3:12Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
- Deut 22:21then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
- Isa 27:9Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.
- Job 34:26He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;
- 1 Tim 5:20Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.
- Zech 13:2It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will be remembered no more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land.
- Hos 2:6–17Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.
- Deut 13:11All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more wickedness like this among you.
- Isa 1:25–26and I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.
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