Psalms 106:39 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.

English ASV

Thus were they defiled with their works, And played the harlot in their doings.

English Amplified

Thus were they defiled by their own works, and they played the harlot and practiced idolatry with their own deeds [of idolatrous rites].

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

Thus were they defiled by their own works, and they played the harlot and practiced idolatry with their own deeds [of idolatrous rites].

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings.

English EASY 2024

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.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

They were unfaithful to him, and they became dirty with the sins of other nations.

Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

They made themselves impure by their actions and were unfaithful to God.

English God's Word - GW 1995

They became filthy because of what they did. They behaved like prostitutes.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

English KJV 1611

Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

English LSB

Thus they became unclean in their works, And played the harlot in their actions.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

Thus were they defiled by their works and played the whore by their deeds.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

Thus they became unclean in their practices, And played the harlot in their deeds.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

They defiled themselves by their actions, became adulterers by their conduct.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

They were defiled by their deeds, and unfaithful in their actions.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

The people polluted themselves by what they had done. They weren't faithful to the Lord.

English NIV

They defiled themselves by what they did; by their deeds they prostituted themselves.

English NKJ 1982

Thus they were defiled by their own works, And played the harlot by their own deeds.

English NLT

They defiled themselves by their evil deeds, and their love of idols was adultery in the LORD's sight.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

Thus they became unclean by their acts, and prostituted themselves in their doings.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the harlot in their doings.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

Their evil deeds defiled them, for their love of idols was adultery in the sight of God.

English Tyndale 1537

Thus were they stained with their own works, and went awhoring with their own inventions.

Psalms 106:39 — Compare Translations