23 They also built for themselves high places,(A) sacred pillars,(B) and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;

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23 They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones(A) and Asherah poles(B) on every high hill and under every spreading tree.(C)

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He sacrificed and burned incense(A) on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.(B)

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He offered sacrifices and burned incense(A) at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.(B)

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10 They set up for themselves sacred pillars(A) and Asherah poles(B) on every high hill and under every green tree.(C)

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10 They set up sacred stones(A) and Asherah poles(B) on every high hill and under every spreading tree.(C)

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He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places,(A) on the hills, and under every green tree.

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He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.

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who burn with lust among the oaks,
under every green tree,(A)
who slaughter children in the wadis
below the clefts of the rocks?(B)

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You burn with lust among the oaks(A)
    and under every spreading tree;(B)
you sacrifice your children(C) in the ravines
    and under the overhanging crags.

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20 For long ago I[a] broke your yoke;(A)
I[b] tore off your chains.
You insisted, “I will not serve!”
On every high hill
and under every green tree(B)
you lay down like a prostitute.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:20 LXX reads you
  2. 2:20 LXX reads you

20 “Long ago you broke off your yoke(A)
    and tore off your bonds;(B)
    you said, ‘I will not serve you!’(C)
Indeed, on every high hill(D)
    and under every spreading tree(E)
    you lay down as a prostitute.(F)

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Unfaithful Israel, Treacherous Judah

In the days of King Josiah the Lord asked me, “Have you seen what unfaithful Israel has done? She has ascended every high hill and gone under every green tree to prostitute herself there.(A)

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Unfaithful Israel

During the reign of King Josiah,(A) the Lord said to me, “Have you seen what faithless(B) Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree(C) and has committed adultery(D) there.

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13 Only acknowledge your guilt(A)
you have rebelled against the Lord your God.(B)
You have scattered your favors to strangers
under every green tree(C)
and have not obeyed me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

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13 Only acknowledge(A) your guilt—
    you have rebelled against the Lord your God,
you have scattered your favors to foreign gods(B)
    under every spreading tree,(C)
    and have not obeyed(D) me,’”
declares the Lord.

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13 You will all know that I am the Lord when their slain lie among their idols around their altars,(A) on every high hill,(B) on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and every leafy oak—the places where they offered pleasing aromas to all their idols.

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13 And they will know that I am the Lord, when their people lie slain among their idols(A) around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy oak(B)—places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.(C)

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