Isaiah 57:7

You prepared your bed on a high mountain; 1 you also went up there to offer sacrifices. 1

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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 things of the river valley are the things that have been assigned to you. They are the object of your devotion. 1 You pour out your drink offering to them and raise up a grain offering. In these things should I take pleasure? 1

8Behind the door and the doorposts you set up your symbols; 1 you deserted me, made yourselves naked, and went up; you made your bed wide. 1 You made a covenant with them; you loved their beds; you saw their private parts. 1

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Cross References

Jeremiah 3:2Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and look! Is there any place where you have not had illicit sex? 1 By the roadsides you sat waiting for your lovers, as an Arab in the wilderness. 1 You have polluted the land with your prostitution and wickedness. 1

Ezekiel 6:13Then you will know that I am Yahweh, when their dead lie among their idols, around their altars, on every high hill—on all the mountain peaks, and under every flourishing tree and thick oak—the places where they burned incense to all their idols.

Ezekiel 16:25You built your high place at the head of every road and made your beauty a disgrace, and you spread your legs to anyone who passed by, and you multiplied your acts of prostitution.

Ezekiel 23:17Then the Babylonians came to her and to her bed of lust, and they made her unclean with their promiscuousness. By what she had done she was made unclean, so she turned herself away from them in disgust. 1

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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