Isaiah 57:8

And behind the doors and the posts hast thou set up thy symbol; for thou hast uncovered, and art gone up from Me, thou hast enlarged thy bed, and chosen thee of them whose bed thou lovedst, whose hand thou sawest.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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

7Upon a high and lofty mountain hast thou set thy bed; thither also wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.

9And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thine ambassadors far off, even down to the nether-world.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 8:8Then said He unto me: 'Son of man, dig now in the wall'; and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.

Ezekiel 16:32Thou wife that committest adultery, that takest strangers instead of thy husband —

Ezekiel 23:41and sattest upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon thou didst set Mine incense and Mine oil.

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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