Ezekiel 16:30

Hebrew Bible

29 Then you multiplied your promiscuity to the land of merchants, Babylonia, but you were not satisfied there either. 30 “‘How I am filled with anger against you*, declares the Sovereign Lord, when you perform all these acts, the deeds of a bold prostitute. 31 When you built your chamber at the head of every street and put up your pavilion in every public square, you were not like a prostitute, because you scoffed at payment.

LXX Ezekiel 16:30

Septuagint

29 And you increased your treaties with the land of the Chaldeans, and not even in these things were you satisfied. 30 Why should I make a covenant with your daughter,” says the Lord, “when you have done all these things, the work of a prostitute woman? And you prostituted yourself threefold among your daughters: 31 You built a brothel at every beginning of a way, and you made your high place in every street, and you became like a prostitute gathering her wages.

 Notes and References
"... the ancient versions seem to have exercised some form of censorship on the Hebrew text of Ezekiel. The LXX had three different translators producing a very uneven Greek text that lacks consistency in the treatment of its key terms and message. Moreover, the book being replete with Akkadianisms and Aramaisms it was relatively easy to mistranslate whenever the statements became too dangerous and was deemed that the invective needed to be toned down. An example is the expression māʾ ʾamulâ libbātēk “How filled with anger I am against you,” in Ezekiel 16:30 that none of the versions translated correctly, though the Akkadian-Aramaic idiom (libbāti malû and ךתבל אלמ “filled with anger”) was well-known in the Aramaic of Daniel 3:19 and in Hebrew of Esther 3:5 ..."

Bodi, Daniel "When YHWH's Wife, Jerusalem, Became a Strange Woman: Inversion of Values in Ezekiel 16 in Light of Ištar Cult" in Berlejung, Angelika, and Marianne Grohmann (eds.) Foreign Women - Women in Foreign Lands: Studies on Foreignness and Gender in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East in the First Millennium BCE (pp. 77-108) Mohr Siebeck, 2019

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