Proverbs 7:12

7:12 at one time outside, at another ¹  in the wide plazas,

and by every corner she lies in wait.)

Jeremiah 3:2

3:2 “Look up at the hilltops and consider this. ² 

You have had sex with other gods on every one of them. ³ 

You waited for those gods like a thief lying in wait in the desert. ⁴ 

You defiled the land by your wicked prostitution to other gods. ⁵ 

Ezekiel 16:25

16:25 At the head of every street you erected your pavilion and you disgraced ⁶  your beauty when you spread ⁷  your legs to every passerby and multiplied your promiscuity.

[7:12]  ¹ tn The repetition of the noun “time, step,” usually translated “now, this time,” signifies here “at one time…at another time” (BDB 822 s.v. פַּעַם 3.e).

[3:2]  ² tn Heb “and see.”

[3:2]  ³ tn Heb “Where have you not been ravished?” The rhetorical question expects the answer “nowhere,” which suggests she has engaged in the worship of pagan gods on every one of the hilltops.

[3:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “You sat for them [the lovers, i.e., the foreign gods] beside the road like an Arab in the desert.”

[3:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “by your prostitution and your wickedness.” This is probably an example of hendiadys where, when two nouns are joined by “and,” one expresses the main idea and the other qualifies it.

[16:25]  ⁶ tn Heb “treated as if abominable,” i.e., repudiated.

[16:25]  ⁷ 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.