And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart {is} snares and nets, {and} her hands {as} bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. {whoso...: Heb. he that is good before God}

Now {is she} without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

The mouth of strange women {is} a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; {straightway: Heb. suddenly}

Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

To deliver thee from the strange woman, {even} from the stranger {which} flattereth with her words;

And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:

But he knoweth not that the dead {are} there; {and that} her guests {are} in the depths of hell.

And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name {was} Delilah. {in...: or, by the brook}

Now {is she} without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.