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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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

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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“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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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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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)

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