20 (A)You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,

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20 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates,(A)

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20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:

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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

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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