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Psalms 106:39
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They defiled themselves by their evil deeds, and their love of idols was adultery in the Lord 's sight.
Thus were they defiled with their works, and went a whoring in their doings.
Thus they were defiled with their works, And prostituted in their doings.
The people became unholy by their sins; they were unfaithful to God in what they did.
They were defiled by their deeds, and unfaithful in their actions.
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went astray with their own inventions.
In this way they became unclean in their practices; They played the prostitute in their own deeds [by giving their worship, which belongs to God alone, to other "gods"].
Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds.
And the erthe was slayn in bloodis, and was defoulid in the werkis of hem; and thei diden fornicacioun in her fyndyngis.
They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
By doing such gruesome things, they also became filthy.
Thus were they defiled with their works, And played the harlot in their doings.
So they became unclean through their works, going after their evil desires.
Thus they were defiled by their deeds; they prostituted themselves by their actions,
And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings.
They were unfaithful to him, and they became dirty with the sins of other nations.
Thus were they defiled with their works, and went astray in their doings.
Thus were they defiled with their owne works: and went a whoring with their owne inuentions.
They made themselves unclean by what they did. They were not true to God in what they did.
Thus they became unclean by their acts, and prostituted themselves in their doings.
Thus were they steined with their owne woorkes, and went a whoring with their owne inuentions.
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went awhoring with their own inventions.
They made themselves impure by their actions and were unfaithful to God.
And they became unclean by their works, and became unchaste in their doings.
(105-39) And was defiled with their works: and they went aside after their own inventions.
Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the harlot in their doings.
Thus were they stayned with their owne workes: and went a whoryng with their owne inuentions.
and was polluted with their works; and they went a whoring with their own devices.
They defiled themselves by their actionsand prostituted themselves by their deeds.
Thus were they defiled with their works, And prostituted themselves in their deeds.
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
And they became unclean by their works, and were unfaithful in their deeds.
And they were unclean with their works, and went whoring in their acts.
And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.
Thus were they stayned wt their owne workes, and wente a whoringe with their owne invencions.
So they became unclean in their practices, And were unfaithful in their deeds.
Thus they were defiled by their own works, And played the harlot by their own deeds.
Thus they became unclean in their practices, And played the harlot in their deeds.
Thus they became unclean in their works,And played the harlot in their actions.
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defiled: Isaiah 24:5, Isaiah 24:6, Isaiah 59:3, Ezekiel 20:18, Ezekiel 20:30, Ezekiel 20:31, Ezekiel 20:43
went: Exodus 34:16, Leviticus 17:7, Leviticus 20:5, Leviticus 20:6, Numbers 15:39, Jeremiah 3:1, Jeremiah 3:2, Jeremiah 3:6-9, Ezekiel 16:15-63, Ezekiel 23:3-49, Hosea 9:1, Revelation 17:1-6
their own: Psalms 106:29
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 31:16 - and go a Judges 2:17 - whoring Judges 8:27 - a whoring 1 Kings 12:33 - in the month 2 Kings 16:10 - the pattern 2 Chronicles 21:11 - fornication Ecclesiastes 7:29 - they Jeremiah 2:7 - ye defiled Ezekiel 23:7 - with all their Hosea 1:2 - for Hosea 11:6 - because Romans 1:30 - inventors
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thus were they defiled with their own works,.... Not the land only, but they themselves also; or "with their works" a, with the works of the Heathen they learned, Psalms 106:35, or rather with their own works, the works of the flesh, especially their shocking idolatries: sin is of a defiling nature; it has defiled all men, it defiles all of men, all the faculties of their souls, and all the members of their bodies; nor can anything truly and thoroughly cleanse from it but the blood of Christ: even men's works of righteousness are as filthy rags and defiling, and much more their evil works.
And went a whoring with their own inventions; after other gods; idolatry is often in Scripture signified by whoredom; the idolatry of Israel and Judah is represented by two harlots and their lewd practices, in Ezekiel 23:1 and hence the apostate church of Rome is compared to a whore, because of her idolatry, Revelation 17:1.
a במעשיהם "operibus earum", Muis; so Ainsworth.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Thus were they defiled with their own works - By their very attempts to deliver themselves from sin. They were corrupt, and the consciousness that they were sinners led them to the commission of even greater enormities in attempting to expiate their guilt, even by the sacrifice of their own sons and daughters. Thus all the religions of the pagan begin in sin, and end in sin. The consciousness of sin only leads to the commission of greater sin; to all the abominations of idol-worship; to the sacrifice - the murder - of the innocent, with the vain hope of thus making expiation for their crimes. Sinners have never yet been able to devise a way by which they may make themselves pure. It is only the great Sacrifice made on the cross which meets the case; which provides expiation; and which saves from future sin.
And went a whoring - Apostacy from God and backsliding are ofen illustrated in the Scriptures by the violation of the marriage compact, as the relation between God and his people is often compared with the relation between a husband and wife. Compare Isaiah 62:5; Jeremiah 3:14; Jeremiah 7:9; Jeremiah 13:27; Ezekiel 16:20, Ezekiel 16:22, Ezekiel 16:25, Ezekiel 16:33-34; Ezekiel 23:17.
With their own inventions - More literally, With their own works. See the notes at Psalms 106:29.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 106:39. And went a whoring. — By fornication, whoredom, and idolatry, the Scripture often expresses idolatry and idolatrous acts. I have given the reason of this in other places. Besides being false to the true God, to whom they are represented as betrothed and married, (and their acts of idolatry were breaches of this solemn engagement,) the worship of idols was frequently accompanied with various acts of impurity.
The translation in the Anglo-Saxon is very remarkable: [A.S.] and they fornicated. In Anglo-Saxon, [A.S.] signifies to fire, to ignite; [A.S.] to commit adultery. So [A.S.] is a prostitute, a whore; and [A.S.] is to go a whoring, to fornicate; probably from [A.S.], or [A.S.] to fire, and [A.S.], to lie, or [A.S.], a glutton; - one who lies with fire, who is ignited by it, who is greedily intent upon the act by which he is inflamed. And do not the words themselves show that in former times whoredom was punished, as it is now, by a disease which produces the sensation of burning in the unhappy prostitutes, whether male or female? And to this meaning the following seems particularly to be applicable.
