Jeremiah 2:20 - The Scriptures 1998

²⁰ “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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ For long ago [in Egypt] I broke your yoke and burst your bonds [not that you might be free, but that you might serve Me] and long ago you shattered the yoke and snapped the bonds [of My law which I put upon you]; you said, I will not serve and obey You! For upon every high hill and under every green tree you [eagerly] prostrated yourself [in idolatrous worship], playing the harlot.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bonds; and thou saidst, I will not serve; for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou didst bow thyself, playing the harlot.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Long ago I broke your yoke; I shattered your chains. But even then you said, “I won’t serve you.” On every high hill and under every lush tree, you have acted like a prostitute.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ From ancient times, you have broken my yoke; you have torn apart my bonds, and you have said, 'I will not serve.' For on every high hill, and under every leafy tree, you have been debased, O harlot.

Jeremiah 2:20 Cross References

1 Kings 12:32

And Yaroḇ

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built for themselves high places, and pillars, and Ashĕ

Psalm 107:14

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And He broke their chains in pieces.

Psalm 2:3

“Let us tear apart Their bonds, And throw away Their ropes from us.”

Psalm 78:58

For they enraged Him with their high places, And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.

Exodus 19:8

And all the people answered together and said, “All that יהוה  has spoken we shall do.” So Mosheh brought back the words of the people to יהוה.

Exodus 24:3

And Mosheh came and related to the people all the Words of יהוה  and all the right-rulings. And all the people answered with one voice and said, “All the Words which יהוה  has spoken we shall do.”

Exodus 3:8

“And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Mitsrites, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Kenaʽ

Isaiah 1:21

How the steadfast city has become a whore! I have filled it with right-ruling; righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers.

Isaiah 10:27

And in that day it shall be that his burden is removed from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.

Isaiah 14:25

“To break Ashshur in My land, and tread him down on My mountains. And his yoke shall be removed from them, and his burden removed from their shoulders.

Isaiah 9:4

For You shall break the yoke of his burden and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Miḏ

Jeremiah 13:27

your adulteries and your neighings, the wickedness of your whoring! I have seen your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Yerushalayim! How long before you would be made clean?”

Jeremiah 17:2

while their children remember their altars and their Ashĕ

Jeremiah 2:31

“O generation, see the word of יהוה! Have I been a wilderness to Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 3:13

‘Only, acknowledge your crookedness, because you have transgressed against יהוה  your Elohim, and have scattered your ways to strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice,’ declares יהוה.

Jeremiah 30:8

‘And it shall be in that day,’ declares יהוה  of hosts, ‘that I break his yoke from your neck, and tear off your bonds, and foreigners no more enslave them.

Jeremiah 5:5

“Let me go to the great men and speak to them, for they have known the way of יהוה, the right-ruling of their Elohim.” But these have altogether broken the yoke and torn off the bonds.

Ezekiel 16:28

“And you whored with the sons of Ashshur, without being satisfied. And you whored with them and still were not satisfied.

Ezekiel 16:31

“You built your arched place at the head of every way, and built your high place in every street. Yet you were unlike a whore, you scorned payment!

Ezekiel 16:41

and burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you before the eyes of many women. And I shall make you stop whoring, and no longer give gifts.

Ezekiel 20:28

“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.

Ezekiel 23:5

“And Oholah whored while she was Mine. And she lusted for her lovers, the neighbouring Ashshurians,

Hosea 1:2

The beginning of the word of יהוה  with Hoshĕ

Hosea 2:5

“For their mother has whored, she who conceived them has acted shamelessly. For she said, ‘I go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my drink.’

Hosea 3:3

And I said to her, “You are to remain with me many days, you are not to whore, nor become any man’s, and so I shall also be towards you.”

Hosea 4:13

“They slaughter on the mountaintops, and burn incense on the hills, under oak and poplars and terebinth, because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters commit whoring, and your brides commit adultery.

Hosea 9:1

O Yisra’ĕ

Leviticus 26:13

‘I am יהוה  your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, from being their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk upright.

Nahum 1:13

“So now I break his yoke from you, and tear off your shackles.”

Deuteronomy 12:2

“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.

Deuteronomy 15:15

“And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Mitsrayim, and יהוה  your Elohim redeemed you. Therefore I am commanding you this word today.

Deuteronomy 26:17

“You have today caused יהוה  to proclaim to be your Elohim, and to walk in His ways and guard His laws, and His commands, and His right-rulings, and to obey His voice.

Deuteronomy 4:20

“But יהוה  has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Mitsrayim, to be His people, an inheritance, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 4:34

“Or has Elohim tried to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of a nation by trials, and by signs, and by wonders, and by battle, and by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great fearsome deeds, according to all that יהוה  your Elohim did for you in Mitsrayim before your eyes?

Deuteronomy 5:27

‘You go near and hear all that יהוה  our Elohim says, and speak to us all that יהוה  our Elohim says to you, and we shall hear and do it.’

Joshua 1:16

And they answered Yehoshua, saying, “All that you have commanded us we do, and wherever you send us we go.

Joshua 24:24

And the people said to Yehoshua, “יהוה  our Elohim we serve, and His voice we obey.”

Joshua 24:26

Then Yehoshua wrote these words in the Book of the Torah of Elohim. And he took a large stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the set-apart place of יהוה.

Revelation 17:1

And one of the seven messengers who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying to me, “Come, I shall show you the judgment of the great whore sitting on many waters,

Judges 10:6

And the children of Yisra’ĕ

Judges 2:11

Then the children of Yisra’ĕ

Judges 2:13

So they forsook יהוה  and served Baʽ

1 Samuel 12:10

“And they cried out to יהוה, and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken יהוה  and served the Baʽ