Jeremiah 3:2 BSB — MannaFest

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.

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ASV

Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

KJV

Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah (420)

(Version 2.) Lift up your eyes and see where you have not fallen. On the roads you were sitting, waiting for them like a robber in the wilderness (or like a deserted raven). For it is written in Hebrew, Arabic, and can also mean Arabs, that this people, devoted to robbery, still raids the borders of Palestine today, and they besiege the roads for those descending from Jerusalem to Jericho: of which the Lord also mentions in the Gospel (Luke 10).

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

As the Arabian in the wilderness - They were as fully intent on the practice of their idolatry as the Arab in the desert is in lying in wait to plunder the caravans. Where they have not cover to lie in ambush, they scatter themselves about, and run hither and thither, raising themselves up on their saddles to see if they can discover, by smoke, dust, or other token, the approach of any travelers.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

In . . . ways . . . sat for them--watching for lovers like a prostitute (Ge 38:14, 21; Eze 16:24, 25), and like an Arab who lies in wait for travellers. The Arabs of the desert, east and south of Palestine, are still notorious as robbers.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
שְׂאִֽי־	se.'i-	lift up	H5375 →
עֵינַ֨יִךְ	'ei.Na.yikh	eyes your	H5869 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
שְׁפָיִ֜ם	she.fa.Yim	bare heights	H8205 →
וּרְאִ֗י	u.re.'I	and see	H7200 →
אֵיפֹה֙	'ei.Foh	where?	H375 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
שֻׁכַּ֔בְתְּ	shu.kab.te	have you been lain with	H7901 →
עַל־	'al-	at	H5921 →
דְּרָכִים֙	de.ra.Khim	roads	H1870 →
יָשַׁ֣בְתְּ	ya.Shavt	you sat	H3427 →
לָהֶ֔ם	la.Hem	for <the> them
כַּעֲרָבִ֖י	ka.'a.ra.Vi	like an Arab	H6163 →
בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר	ba.mid.Bar	in the wilderness	H4057 →
וַתַּחֲנִ֣יפִי	va.ta.cha.Ni.fi	and you have polluted	H2610 →
אֶ֔רֶץ	'E.retz	[the] land	H776 →
בִּזְנוּתַ֖יִךְ	biz.nu.Ta.yikh	by prostitution your	H2184 →
וּבְרָעָתֵֽךְ׃	u.ve.ra.'a.Tekh	and by wickedness your	H7451 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 2:7
I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land, and made My inheritance detestable.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 8:7–9
  For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;
- Jeremiah 16:18
  And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”
- Numbers 13:27
  And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!
- Ezekiel 36:17
  “Son of man, when the people of Israel lived in their land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds. Their behavior before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman’s impurity.
Through
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.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 12:2
  Destroy 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 26:13
  I 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…
- Jeremiah 17:2
  Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles by the green trees and on the high hills.
Through
Genesis 38:14
she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah…
leads to
- Genesis 38:26
  Judah recognized the items and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not have relations with her again.

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Jeremiah

Where the connections lead

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Commentary

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Related verses

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About Jeremiah