Behind your doors and your doorposts
    you have put your pagan symbols.
Forsaking me, you uncovered your bed,
    you climbed into it and opened it wide;
you made a pact with those whose beds you love,(A)
    and you looked with lust on their naked bodies.(B)

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Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.

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Also behind the doors and their posts
You have set up your remembrance;
For you have uncovered yourself to those other than Me,
And have gone up to them;
You have enlarged your bed
And [a]made a covenant with them;
(A)You have loved their bed,
Where you saw their [b]nudity.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 57:8 Lit. cut
  2. Isaiah 57:8 Lit. hand, a euphemism

Behind the door and the doorpost
    you have set up your memorial;
for, deserting me, (A)you have uncovered your bed,
    you have gone up to it,
    (B)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.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 57:8 Or on a monument (see 56:5); Hebrew on a hand

I know all about Ephraim;
    Israel is not hidden(A) from me.
Ephraim, you have now turned to prostitution;
    Israel is corrupt.(B)

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I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.

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(A)I know Ephraim,
And Israel is not hidden from Me;
For now, O Ephraim, (B)you commit harlotry;
Israel is defiled.

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(A)I know Ephraim,
    and Israel is not hidden from me;
for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore;
    Israel is defiled.

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10 I have seen a horrible(A) thing in Israel:
    There Ephraim is given to prostitution,
    Israel is defiled.(B)

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10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

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10 I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel:
There is the [a]harlotry of Ephraim;
Israel is defiled.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 6:10 Spiritual adultery

10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
    (A)Ephraim's whoredom is there; (B)Israel is defiled.

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