Lexicon :: Strong's H2154 - zimmâ

“You are not to have sexual intercourse with a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sex with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

“Do not debase[fn] your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

“If a man marries[fn] a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned, so that there will be no depravity among you.

“Then I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout Israel’s territory, because they have committed a wicked outrage in Israel.

My days have slipped by;

my plans have been ruined,

even the things dear to my heart.

For that would be a disgrace;

it would be an iniquity deserving punishment.

in whose hands are evil schemes

and whose right hands are filled with bribes.

Those who pursue evil plans[fn] come near;

they are far from your instruction.

As shameful conduct is pleasure for a fool,

so wisdom is for a person of understanding.

The sacrifice of a wicked person is detestable ​—

how much more so

when he brings it with ulterior motives!

A foolish scheme is sin,

and a mocker is detestable to people.

The scoundrel’s weapons are destructive;

he hatches plots to destroy the needy with lies,

even when the poor person says what is right.

Your adulteries and your lustful neighing,

your depraved prostitution

on the hills, in the fields —

I have seen your abhorrent acts.

Woe to you, Jerusalem!

You are unclean —

for how long yet?

“ ‘Therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and reduced your provisions. I gave you over to the desire of those who hate you, the Philistine women, who were embarrassed by your indecent conduct.

“Because you did not remember the days of your youth but enraged me with all these things, I will also bring your conduct down on your own head. This is the declaration of the Lord GOD. Haven’t you committed depravity in addition to all your detestable practices?

“You yourself must bear the consequences of your depravity and detestable practices ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration.

“There are men within you who slander in order to shed blood. People who live in you eat at the mountain shrines;[fn] they commit depraved acts within you.

“One man within you commits a detestable act with his neighbor’s wife; another defiles his daughter-in-law with depravity; and yet another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.

“So you revisited the depravity of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your nipples to enjoy your youthful breasts.

“So I will put an end to your depravity and sexual immorality, which began in the land of Egypt, and you will not look longingly at them or remember Egypt anymore.

“They will treat you with hatred, take all you have worked for, and leave you stark naked, so that the shame of your debauchery will be exposed, both your depravity and promiscuity.

Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: “Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, you must bear the consequences of your indecency and promiscuity.”

“Yet they had sex with her as one does with a prostitute. This is how they had sex with Oholah and Oholibah, those depraved women.

“So I will put an end to depravity in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your depraved behavior.

“Because of the depravity of your uncleanness —

since I tried to purify you,

but you would not be purified from your uncleanness —

you will not be pure again

until I have satisfied my wrath on you.

Like raiders who wait in ambush for someone,

a band of priests murders on the road to Shechem.

They commit atrocities.