“Let’s tear off their chains
and throw their ropes off of us.”(A)

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“Let us break their chains(A)
    and throw off their shackles.”(B)

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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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