Isaiah 57:7

Upon a lofty and high har 1 hast thou set up thy mishkav (bed i.e., fertility rites); 1 there wentest thou up to offer zevach. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6Among the smooth stones of the wadi is thy chelek; 1 they are thy goral; 1 even to them + 57:6 the stone idols; see Jer 3:9 hast thou poured nesekh, 1 thou hast offered minchah. 1 For these [provocations], should I relent? 1

8Behind the delet also and the mezuzah (doorpost) 1 hast thou set up thy zikron ([pornographic and idolatrous] memorial); 1 deserting Me, thou hast uncovered thyself, and art gone up; 1 thou hast enlarged thy mishkav (bed) 1 and cut + 57:8 a Brit for thee with them [a Brit]; 1 thou lovedst their mishkav (bed) 1 where thou hast looked on their yad. + 57:8 i.e., phallus 1

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Cross References

Jeremiah 3:2Lift up thine eyes unto the hilltops, and see! 1 Where hast thou not been lain with? 1 In the drakhim (ways, roads) hast thou sat [waiting] for them, 1 as the nomad in the midbar; 1 and thou hast defiled the eretz 1 with thy zenut (whoredom, prostitution) and with thy ra'ah (wickedness). 1

Ezekiel 6:13Then shall ye know that I am Hashem, when their slain shall be among their gillulim all around their mizbechot, upon every givah ramah (high hill), in all the tops of the harim, and under every spreading tree, and under every leafy elah (oak tree), the makom (place) where they did offer rei'ach nicho'ach to all their gillulim.

Ezekiel 16:25Thou hast built thy ramah at rosh derech (crossroad), and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast spread open thy raglayim to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy zonah harlotry.

Ezekiel 23:17And the Bnei Bavel came to her into the mishkav dodim (bed of love), and they made her tameh with their zenut (whoredom), and she was defiled by them, and her nefesh turned away from them in disgust.

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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