and they forsook the House of יהוה Elohim of their fathers, and served the Ashĕ
Jeremiah 17:2 - The Scriptures 1998 while their children remember their altars and their Ashĕ More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition While their children [earnestly] remember their [heathen] altars and their Asherim [wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah] beside the green trees upon the high hills. American Standard Version (1901) whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills. Common English Bible Their children remember their altars and sacred poles by the lush trees and high hills. Catholic Public Domain Version And their sons make a remembrance of their shrines, and their sacred groves, and their leafy trees on high mountains, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version When their children shall remember their altars and their groves and their green trees upon high mountains, |
and they forsook the House of יהוה Elohim of their fathers, and served the Ashĕ
And his prayer, and his entreaty, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places where he built high places and set up the Ashĕ
For they enraged Him with their high places, And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.
“But break down their altars, and smash their pillars, and cut down their Ashĕ
For they shall be ashamed of the terebinth trees which you have desired. And you shall be embarrassed because of the gardens which you have chosen.
And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands; and he shall not see that which his own fingers made, nor the Ashĕ
“For of old you have broken your yoke and tore of your bonds. And you said, ‘I am not serving You,’ when on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down, a whore.
“Truly, delusion comes from the high hills, the noisy throng on the mountains. Truly, in יהוה our Elohim is the deliverance of Yisra’ĕ
And יהוה said to me in the days of Yoshiyahu the sovereign, “Have you seen what backsliding Yisra’ĕ
“The children are gathering wood, the fathers are lighting the fire, and the women are kneading their dough, to make cakes for the sovereigness of the heavens, and to pour out drink offerings to other mighty ones, to provoke Me.
“When I brought them into the land for which I had lifted My hand in an oath to give them, and they saw all the high hills and all the thick trees, they offered their slaughterings there and provoked Me with their offerings there. And they sent up their sweet fragrance there and poured out their drink offerings there.
“Completely destroy all the places where the nations which you are dispossessing served their mighty ones, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.