23 For they, too, built for themselves (A)high places, (B)memorial stones, and [a](C)Asherim on every high hill and (D)under every luxuriant tree.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 14:23 I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah)

23 They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones(A) and Asherah poles(B) on every high hill and under every spreading tree.(C)

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58 For they (A)provoked Him with their (B)high places
And (C)moved Him to jealousy with their (D)carved images.

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58 They angered him(A) with their high places;(B)
    they aroused his jealousy with their idols.(C)

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Who inflame yourselves among the (A)oaks,
(B)Under every luxuriant tree,
Who (C)slaughter the children in the [a]ravines,
Under the clefts of the rocks?
Among the [b](D)smooth stones of the [c]ravine
Is your portion, [d]they are your lot;
Even to them you have (E)poured out a drink offering,
You have made a grain offering.
Should I [e](F)relent of these things?
On a (G)high and lofty mountain
You have (H)made your bed.
You also went up there to offer sacrifice.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 57:5 Or wadis
  2. Isaiah 57:6 I.e., symbols of fertility gods
  3. Isaiah 57:6 Or wadi
  4. Isaiah 57:6 Lit they, they
  5. Isaiah 57:6 Or repent

You burn with lust among the oaks(A)
    and under every spreading tree;(B)
you sacrifice your children(C) in the ravines
    and under the overhanging crags.
The idols(D) among the smooth stones of the ravines are your portion;
    indeed, they are your lot.
Yes, to them you have poured out drink offerings(E)
    and offered grain offerings.
    In view of all this, should I relent?(F)
You have made your bed on a high and lofty hill;(G)
    there you went up to offer your sacrifices.(H)

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Faithless Israel

Then the Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah, “Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She (A)went up on every high hill and under every leafy tree, and she prostituted herself there.

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Unfaithful Israel

During the reign of King Josiah,(A) the Lord said to me, “Have you seen what faithless(B) Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree(C) and has committed adultery(D) there.

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13 Then you will know that I am the Lord, when their (A)dead are among their idols around their altars, on (B)every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every leafy tree and under every massive oak with thick branches—the places where they offered a soothing aroma to all their idols.

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13 And they will know that I am the Lord, when their people lie slain among their idols(A) around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy oak(B)—places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.(C)

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