Isaiah 57:8

Behind 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

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 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

9And thou wentest to Melech; + 57:9 i.e., the pagan g-d Molech, the deity of sacrificed offspring and abortions 1 with shemen thou didst increase thy perfumes, 1 and didst send thy + 57:9 political envoys far, 1 even down unto Sheol. 1

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Cross References

Ezekiel 8:8Then said He unto me, Ben adam, dig now in the kir (wall); and when I had dug in the kir (wall), hinei, a petach (entrance).

Ezekiel 16:32But as the isha (wife) the mena'efet (one that commiteth adultery), which taketh zarim instead of her ish!

Ezekiel 23:41And satest upon a glorious mittah (couch), and a shulchan spread before it, whereupon thou hast set Mine ketoret and Mine shemen.

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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