You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you are going to dispossess serve their gods, on the (A)high mountains, on the hills, and under every leafy tree.

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Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains,(A) on the hills and under every spreading tree,(B) where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods.

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Who inflame yourselves among the (A)oaks,
(B)Under every luxuriant tree,
Who (C)slaughter the children in the [a]ravines,
Under the clefts of the rocks?

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 57:5 Or wadis

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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On a (A)high and lofty mountain
You have (B)made your bed.
You also went up there to offer sacrifice.

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You have made your bed on a high and lofty hill;(A)
    there you went up to offer your sacrifices.(B)

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“Raise your eyes to the (A)bare heights and see;
Where have you not been violated?
You have (B)sat for them by the roads
Like an Arab in the desert,
And you have (C)defiled a land
With your prostitution and your wickedness.

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“Look up to the barren heights(A) and see.
    Is there any place where you have not been ravished?
By the roadside(B) you sat waiting for lovers,
    sat like a nomad in the desert.
You have defiled the land(C)
    with your prostitution(D) and wickedness.

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Faithless Israel

Then the Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah, “Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She (A)went up on every high hill and under every leafy tree, and she prostituted herself there.

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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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As they remember their (A)children,
So they remember their altars and their [a](B)Asherim
By (C)green trees on the high hills.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 17:2 I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah)

Even their children remember
    their altars and Asherah poles[a](A)
beside the spreading trees
    and on the high hills.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 17:2 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah