Ezekiel 16:23-25

16:23 “‘After all of your evil – “Woe! Woe to you!” declares the sovereign Lord – 16:24 you built yourself a chamber ¹  and put up a pavilion ²  in every public square. 16:25 At the head of every street you erected your pavilion and you disgraced ³  your beauty when you spread ⁴  your legs to every passerby and multiplied your promiscuity.

[16:24]  ¹ tn The Hebrew גֶּב (gev) may represent more than one word, each rare in the Old Testament. It may refer to a “mound” or to “rafters.” The LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate interpret this as a brothel.

[16:24]  ² tn Or “lofty place” (NRSV). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:229, and B. Lang, Frau Weisheit, 137.

[16:25]  ³ tn Heb “treated as if abominable,” i.e., repudiated.

[16:25]  ⁴ tn The only other occurrence of the Hebrew root is found in Prov 13:3 in reference to the talkative person who habitually “opens wide” his lips.