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Amplified
“Upon a high and lofty mountain
You have [openly and shamelessly] made your [idolatrous and adulterous] bed;
Even there you went up to offer sacrifice [to idols, in spiritual unfaithfulness to Me].
New American Standard Bible
You have
You also went up there to offer sacrifice.
King James Version
Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
Holman Bible
on a high and lofty mountain;
you also went up there to offer sacrifice.
International Standard Version
"You have made your bed on a high and lofty mountain, and you went up to offer sacrifice there.
A Conservative Version
Upon a high and lofty mountain thou have set thy bed. Thou also went up there to offer sacrifice.
American Standard Version
Upon a high and lofty mountain hast thou set thy bed; thither also wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
Bible in Basic English
You have put your bed on a high mountain: there you went up to make your offering.
Darby Translation
Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither didst thou go up to offer sacrifice.
Julia Smith Translation
Upon a mountain high and lifted up thou didst set thy bed: also there thou wentest up to sacrifice a sacrifice.
King James 2000
Upon a lofty and high mountain have you set your bed: even there you went up to offer sacrifice.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You have set your bed upon a high and lofty mountain; indeed, you went up there to slaughter sacrifice.
Modern King James verseion
On a lofty and high mountain you have set your bed; even there you went up to offer sacrifice.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou hast made thy bed upon high mountains; thou wentest up thither, and there hast thou slain sacrifices.
NET Bible
On every high, elevated hill you prepare your bed; you go up there to offer sacrifices.
New Heart English Bible
On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed; there also you went up to offer sacrifice.
The Emphasized Bible
On a mountain high and uplifted, hast thou set thy couch, - Even thither, hast thou gone up, to offer sacrifice;
Webster
Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither thou wentest up to offer sacrifice.
World English Bible
On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed; there also you went up to offer sacrifice.
Youngs Literal Translation
On a mountain, high and exalted, Thou hast set thy couch, Also thither thou hast gone up to make a sacrifice.
Themes
Beds » Illustrative » (made on high,) of carnal security
Profit » What is not profitable
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 57:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Idolatry Is Adultery
6
“Among the smooth stones of the ravine
Is your portion, they (the idols) are your lot;
Even to them you have poured out a drink offering,
You have offered a grain offering.
Should I be quiet concerning these things [leaving them unpunished—bearing them with patience]?
“Upon a high and lofty mountain
You have [openly and shamelessly] made your [idolatrous and adulterous] bed;
Even there you went up to offer sacrifice [to idols, in spiritual unfaithfulness to Me].
“Behind the door and the doorpost
You have set up your [pagan] symbol;
Indeed, far removed from Me, you have uncovered yourself,
And have gone up and made your bed wide.
And you have made a [new] agreement for yourself with the adulterers,
You have loved their bed,
You have looked [with passion] on their
Phrases
Cross References
Ezekiel 16:16
You took some of your clothes and made for yourself [decorated] high places and shrines of various colors and prostituted yourself on them—things which should never have come about and taken place.
Ezekiel 23:41
and you sat on a splendid couch with a table arranged before it on which you had set My incense and My oil.
Jeremiah 2:20
“For long ago you broke your yoke [in deliberate disobedience]
And tore off your bonds [of the law that I gave you];
You said, ‘I will not serve and obey You!’
For on every high hill
And under every green tree
You have lain down [in idolatrous worship] like a [compliant] prostitute.
Jeremiah 3:2
“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see;
Where have you not been violated?
You sat by the road waiting [eagerly] for them [those man-made gods]
Like an Arab [tribesman who waits to attack] in the desert,
And you have desecrated the land
With your [vile] prostitution and your wickedness (disobedience to God).
Jeremiah 3:6
Moreover, the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king [of Judah], “Have you seen what that faithless Israel has done—how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there she was a prostitute?
Ezekiel 16:25
At the beginning of every street you built your high place and made your beauty repulsive; and you offered your body to every passer-by and multiplied your obscene immorality.
Ezekiel 20:28-29
For when I had brought them into the land which I swore to give to them, they saw every high hill and every dark and leafy tree [as a place for idol worship], and there they offered their sacrifices and there they presented their offering that provoked My anger; there also they made their sweet-smelling aroma and there poured out their drink offerings.
Ezekiel 23:17
The Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and they defiled her with their evil desire; and when she had been defiled by them, she (Jerusalem) broke the relationship and pushed them away from her in disgust.