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Isaiah 57:7

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You have spread out your beds on the tops of high mountains, where you sacrifice to idols.

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You people are unfaithful! You go to fortune-tellers, and you worship idols. Now pay close attention!

I, the LORD, will make them pay for their sins and for those of their ancestors— they have disgraced me by burning incense on mountains.

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.

Just try to find one hilltop where you haven't gone to worship other gods by having sex. You sat beside the road like a robber in ambush, except you offered yourself to every passer-by. Your sins of unfaithfulness have polluted the land.

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.

You made shrines for yourself and decorated them with some of your clothes. That's where you took your visitors to have sex with them. These things should never have happened!

but you also built places on every street corner

where you disgraced yourself by having sex with anyone who walked by. And you did that more and more every day!

Men from Babylonia came and had sex with her so many times that she got disgusted with them.

They sat on a fine couch, and in front of them was a table for the olive oil and incense that had belonged to me.

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.




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