Isaiah 57:8

And behind the door, and the post, || You have set up your memorial, || For you have removed from Me, and go up, || You have enlarged your bed, || And cut [a covenant] with them, || You have loved their bed, the station you saw,

Literal Standard Version

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

7On a mountain, high and exalted, || You have set your bed, || You have also gone up there to make a sacrifice.

9And go joyfully to the king in ointment, || And multiply your perfumes, || And send your ambassadors far off, || And humble yourself to Sheol.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 8:8and He says to me, “Son of man, now dig through the wall”; and I dig through the wall, and behold, an opening.

Ezekiel 16:32The wife who commits adultery—Under her husband—receives strangers.

Ezekiel 23:41And you have sat on a couch of honor, || And a table arrayed before it, || And placed My incense and My oil on 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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