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You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the (A)high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

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Who inflame yourselves among the [a](A)oaks,
(B)Under every green tree,
Who (C)slaughter the children in the [b]ravines,
Under the clefts of the cliffs?

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 57:5 Or terebinths
  2. Isaiah 57:5 Or wadis

Upon a mountain (A)lofty and lifted up
You have (B)made your bed.
You also went up there to offer sacrifice.

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“Lift up your eyes to the (A)bare heights and see;
Where have you not been ravished?
By the roads you have (B)sat for them
Like [a]an Arab in the wilderness,
And you have (C)polluted a land
With your harlotry and with your evil.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 3:2 Or a nomad

Faithless Israel Called to Repentance

Then Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She (A)went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she was a harlot there.

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As they remember their (A)children,
So they remember their altars and their [a](B)Asherim
By (C)green trees on the high hills.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 17:2 Wooden symbols of a female deity