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Psalm 106:39
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KJ21
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own schemes.
ASV
Thus were they defiled with their works, And played the harlot in their doings.
AMP
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”].
AMPC
Thus were they defiled by their own works, and they played the harlot and practiced idolatry with their own deeds [of idolatrous rites].
BRG
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
CSB
They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
CSBA
They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
CEB
They made themselves unclean by what they did; they prostituted themselves by their actions.
CJB
Thus they were defiled by their deeds; they prostituted themselves by their actions,
CEV
By doing such gruesome things, they also became filthy.
DARBY
And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings.
DRA
Then they were brought to be few: and they were afflicted through the trouble of evils and sorrow.
ERV
They were unfaithful to him, and they became dirty with the sins of other nations.
EASY
The things that the Lord's people did made them unclean. They were not faithful to the Lord, like a wife who is not faithful to her husband.
EHV
and they made themselves unclean by what they did. They prostituted themselves by their actions.
ESV
Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds.
ESVUK
Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds.
EXB
The people became ·unholy [unclean; C ritually] by their ·sins [L acts]; they ·were unfaithful to God in [prostituted themselves by] what they did.
GNV
Thus were they stained with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
GW
They became filthy because of what they did. They behaved like prostitutes.
GNT
They made themselves impure by their actions and were unfaithful to God.
HCSB
They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
ICB
The people became unholy by their sins. They were unfaithful to God in what they did.
ISV
Therefore, they became unclean because of what they did; they have acted like whores by their evil deeds.
JUB
Thus they were defiled with their own works and went a whoring with their own inventions.
KJV
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
AKJV
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
LSB
Thus they became unclean in their works, And played the harlot in their actions.
LEB
And they became unclean by their works, and were unfaithful in their deeds.
TLB
Their evil deeds defiled them, for their love of idols was adultery in the sight of God.
MSG
They didn’t wipe out those godless cultures as ordered by God; Instead they intermarried with the heathen, and in time became just like them. They worshiped their idols, were caught in the trap of idols. They sacrificed their sons and daughters at the altars of demon gods. They slit the throats of their babies, murdered their infant girls and boys. They offered their babies to Canaan’s gods; the blood of their babies stained the land. Their way of life reeked; they lived like prostitutes.
MEV
Thus were they defiled by their acts and acted like whores with these actions.
NOG
They became filthy because of what they did. They behaved like prostitutes.
NABRE
They defiled themselves by their actions, became adulterers by their conduct.
NASB
So they became unclean in their practices, And were unfaithful in their deeds.
NASB1995
Thus they became unclean in their practices, And played the harlot in their deeds.
NCB
Thus, they defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their conduct.
NCV
The people became unholy by their sins; they were unfaithful to God in what they did.
NET
They were defiled by their deeds, and unfaithful in their actions.
NIRV
The people made themselves impure by what they had done. They weren’t faithful to the Lord.
NIV
They defiled themselves by what they did; by their deeds they prostituted themselves.
NIVUK
They defiled themselves by what they did; by their deeds they prostituted themselves.
NKJV
Thus they were defiled by their own works, And played the harlot by their own deeds.
NLV
They made themselves unclean by what they did. They were not true to God in what they did.
NLT
They defiled themselves by their evil deeds, and their love of idols was adultery in the Lord’s sight.
NRSVA
Thus they became unclean by their acts, and prostituted themselves in their doings.
NRSVACE
Thus they became unclean by their acts, and prostituted themselves in their doings.
NRSVCE
Thus they became unclean by their acts, and prostituted themselves in their doings.
NRSVUE
Thus they became unclean by their acts and prostituted themselves in their doings.
OJB
Thus they made themselves tameh with their own ma’asim, and went awhoring with their own inventions.
RGT
Thus, they were stained with their own works and went a-whoring with their own inventions.
RSV
Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the harlot in their doings.
RSVCE
Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the harlot in their doings.
TLV
So they defiled themselves by their deeds, and prostituted themselves by their practices.
VOICE
They became impure because of their unfaithful works; by their actions, they prostituted themselves to other gods.
WEB
Thus they were defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.
WYC
and was defouled in the works of them; and they did fornication in their findings. (and they were defiled by their works; and they wantonly abandoned God with their deeds.)
YLT
And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.
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