Isaiah 57:7

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“On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.”

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BSBPD

“On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Upon a high and lofty mountain hast thou set thy bed; thither also wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“On a mountain, high and exalted, Thou hast set thy couch, Also thither thou hast gone up to make a sacrifice.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 57:7 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Jeremiah 2:20“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
  2. Jeremiah 3:2“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
  3. Jeremiah 3:6Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
  4. Ezekiel 6:13Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
  5. Ezekiel 16:16You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them you prostituted yourself. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred!
  6. Ezekiel 16:25At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by.
  7. Ezekiel 20:28When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up their fragrant incense, and poured out their drink offerings.
  8. Ezekiel 23:17Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. But after she had been defiled by them, she turned away in disgust.
  9. Ezekiel 23:41You sat on a couch of luxury with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil,

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