Isaiah 57:7
5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
6 Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?
Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
8 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.
9 And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.
- KJV
- Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
- WEB
- On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed. You also went up there to offer sacrifice.
- ASV
- Upon a high and lofty mountain hast thou set thy bed; thither also wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
- DARBY
- Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither didst thou go up to offer sacrifice.
- BLB
- Upon a mountain high and lifted up you have set your bed; also you went up there to offer sacrifice.
- ÅB
- På høye, mektige fjell redet du ditt leie; også der steg du opp for å ofre slaktoffer.
- OTB
- Du har satt opp ditt hvilested på en høy og opphøyd høyde; der steg du opp for å bære fram dine ofre.
- B1930
- På høie, mektige fjell redet du ditt leie; også der steg du op for å ofre slaktoffer.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 16:16
And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
Read in contextEzekiel 23:41
And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.
Read in contextJeremiah 2:20
For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
Read in contextEzekiel 16:25
Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
Read in contextJeremiah 3:6
The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
Read in contextEzekiel 20:28–29
For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
Read in contextJeremiah 3:2
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.
Read in contextEzekiel 23:17
And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
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