Isaiah 57:5

Contemporary English Version 1995

All you think about is sex under those green trees where idols are worshiped. You sacrifice your children on altars built in valleys under rocky slopes.

Cross References

Ezekiel 16:20

But you did something even worse than that—you sacrificed your own children to those idols!

Isaiah 1:29

You will be made ashamed of those groves of trees where you worshiped idols.

Jeremiah 7:31

At Topheth in Hinnom Valley you have built altars where you kill your children and burn them as sacrifices to other gods. I would never think of telling you to do this.

Jeremiah 3:13

Just admit that you rebelled and worshiped foreign gods under large trees everywhere.

Jeremiah 2:20

Long ago you left me and broke all ties between us, refusing to be my servant. Now you worship other gods by having sex on hilltops or in the shade of large trees.

2 Kings 23:10

Josiah sent some men to Hinnom Valley just outside Jerusalem with orders to make the altar there unfit for worship. That way, people could no longer use it for sacrificing their children to the god Molech.

Leviticus 18:21

Don't sacrifice your children on the altar fires to the god Molech. I am the Lord your God, and that would disgrace me.

Revelation 18:3

Babylon's evil and immoral wine has made all nations drunk. Every king on earth has slept with her, and every merchant on earth is rich because of her evil desires.”

Ezekiel 20:31

by worshiping idols and by sacrificing their own children as offerings. They commit these sins and still think they can ask me for a message. As surely as I am the living Lord God, I will give them no answer.

Ezekiel 20:26

and I let them offer me unacceptable sacrifices, including their first-born sons. I did this to horrify them and to let them know that I, the Lord, was punishing them.

Ezekiel 6:13

These people used to offer incense to idols at altars built on hills and mountaintops and in the shade of large oak trees. But when they see dead bodies lying around those altars, they will know that I am the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:7

Babylon was my golden cup, filled with the wine of my anger. The nations of the world got drunk on this wine and went insane.

Jeremiah 50:38

Your rivers and canals will dry up. All of this will happen, because your land is full of idols, and they have made fools of you.

Jeremiah 32:35

And they led Judah into sin by building places to worship Baal in Hinnom Valley, where they also sacrificed their sons and daughters to the god Molech. I have never even imagined they would commit such disgusting sins.

Jeremiah 17:2

One generation after another has set up pagan altars and worshiped the goddess Asherah everywhere in your country— on hills and mountains, and under large trees.

Jeremiah 3:6

When Josiah was king, the Lord said: Jeremiah, the kingdom of Israel was like an unfaithful wife who became a prostitute on the hilltops and in the shade of large trees.

2 Chronicles 28:3

and he offered sacrifices in Hinnom Valley. Worst of all, Ahaz sacrificed his own sons, which was a disgusting custom of the nations that the Lord had forced out of Israel.

2 Kings 17:10

They also built stone images of foreign gods and set up sacred poles for the worship of Asherah on every hill and under every shady tree.

1 Kings 14:23

They also built their own local shrines and stone images of foreign gods, and they set up sacred poles for worshiping the goddess Asherah on every hill and in the shade of large trees.

Deuteronomy 12:2

But the nations that live there worship other gods. So after you capture the land, you must completely destroy their places of worship—on mountains and hills or in the shade of large trees.

Numbers 25:6

Later, Moses and the people were at the sacred tent, crying, when one of the Israelite men brought a Midianite woman to meet his family.

Exodus 32:6

The people got up early the next morning and killed some animals to be used for sacrifices and others to be eaten. Then everyone ate and drank so much that they began to carry on like wild people.

Ezekiel 20:28

by offering sacrifices, incense, and wine to gods on every hill and under every large tree. I was very angry, because they did these things in the land I had given them!

2 Kings 17:7

All of this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had rescued them from Egypt, where they had been slaves. They worshiped foreign gods,