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Isaiah 57:7

On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.

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ASV

Upon a high and lofty mountain hast thou set thy bed; thither also wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.

KJV

Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
עַ֤ל'alonH5921 →
הַר־har-a mountainH2022 →
גָּבֹ֙הַּ֙ga.Vo.ahhighH1364 →
וְנִשָּׂ֔אve.ni.Sa'and lifted upH5375 →
שַׂ֖מְתְּsamtyou have setH7760 →
מִשְׁכָּבֵ֑ךְmish.ka.Vekhbed yourH4904 →
גַּם־gam-alsoH1571 →
שָׁ֥םshamthereH8033 →
עָלִ֖ית'a.Lityou have gone upH5927 →
לִזְבֹּ֥חַliz.Bo.achto sacrificeH2076 →
זָֽבַח׃Za.vacha sacrificeH2077 →

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Isaiah 65:7both for your iniquities and for those of your fathers,” says the LORD. “Because they burned incense on the mountains and scorned Me on the hills, I will measure into their laps full payment for their former deeds.”Ezekiel 16:16You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them you prostituted yourself. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred!Ezekiel 23:41You sat on a couch of luxury with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil,Jeremiah 2:20“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.Ezekiel 16:24you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square.Jeremiah 3:6Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.Ezekiel 20:28–29When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up their fragrant incense, and poured out their drink offerings.Ezekiel 16:25At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by.Jeremiah 3:2“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.Hosea 4:13They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.Jeremiah 13:27Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”Ezekiel 23:17Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. But after she had been defiled by them, she turned away in disgust.Amos 2:8They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.

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The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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