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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.

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ASV

For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bonds; and thou saidst, I will not serve; for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou didst bow thyself, playing the harlot.

KJV

For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
כִּ֣יkithatH3588 →
מֵעוֹלָ֞םme.'o.Lamfrom long agoH5769 →
שָׁבַ֣רְתִּיsha.Var.tiI broke offH7665 →
עֻלֵּ֗ךְ'u.Lekhyoke yourH5923 →
נִתַּ֙קְתִּי֙ni.Tak.tiI tore offH5423 →
מוֹסְרֹתַ֔יִךְmos.ro.Ta.yikhfetters yourH4147 →
וַתֹּאמְרִ֖יva.tom.Riand you saidH559 →
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808 →
אֶעֱב֑וֹר'e.'e.vodI will transgressH5674 →
כִּ֣יkiforH3588 →
עַֽל־'al-onH5921 →
כָּל־kol-everyH3605 →
גִּבְעָ֞הgiv.'AhhillH1389 →
גְּבֹהָ֗הge.vo.HahhighH1364 →
וְתַ֙חַת֙ve.Ta.chatand underH8478 →
כָּל־kol-everyH3605 →
עֵ֣ץ'etztreeH6086 →
רַעֲנָ֔ןra.'a.NanluxuriantH7488 →
אַ֖תְּ'atyouH859 →
צֹעָ֥הtzo.'Ah[have been] lying downH6808 →
זֹנָֽה׃zo.Naha prostituteH2181 →

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Deuteronomy 12:2Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.Leviticus 26:13I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk in uprightness.Revelation 17:1Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.Ezekiel 16:15But because of your fame, you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot. You lavished your favors on everyone who passed by, and your beauty was theirs for the asking.Jeremiah 17:2Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles by the green trees and on the high hills.Ezekiel 16:24you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square.Ezekiel 6:13Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.Jeremiah 5:5I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.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.Jeremiah 3:1“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.Isaiah 57:7On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.Jeremiah 30:8On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will break the yoke off their necks and tear off their bonds, and no longer will strangers enslave them.Isaiah 1:21See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!Hosea 3:3Then I said to her, “You must live with me for many days; you must not be promiscuous or belong to another, and I will do the same for you.”Isaiah 57:5who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?Ezekiel 34:27The trees of the field will give their fruit, and the land will yield its produce; My flock will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bars of their yoke and delivered them from the hands that enslaved them.Jeremiah 3:13Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD.Exodus 34:14–16For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

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