Proverbs 7:12
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
Context
This verse from Proverbs Chapter 7 connects to 10 cross-references. Another extended warning against the adulteress, narrated as the father observing a naive young man enticed by a crafty woman in the twilight. She seizes and kisses him, speaks of her peace offerings and adorned bed, and lures him as …
Other Translations
Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.)
Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) --
Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.
Cross References
For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; …
Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast …
Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways …
That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, …
In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every …
For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth …