Isaiah 57:8

You've placed your pagan signs behind your doors and on your doorposts. Deserting me, you took off your clothes and climbed into bed, committing yourselves to those you love, going to bed with them. You've seen them naked.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

7You have committed adultery by idol worship on every high mountain; you went there to offer pagan sacrifices.

9You went to offer Molech olive oil, covering yourselves with many perfumes. You sent your messengers to distant places; you even went down into the world of the dead.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 8:8“Son of man,” he told me, “pull the wall apart.” So I pulled the wall apart and found a doorway.

Ezekiel 16:32You're a wife that loves adultery! You sleep with strangers instead of your husband!

Ezekiel 23:41You sat on an expensive couch, with my incense and my oil on a table placed in front of it.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 57:4-13

A Charge against the People. ( b. c. 706.) 3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. 4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood, 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… Read the whole commentary →

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