You took some of your clothing and made colourful high places for yourself, and you engaged in prostitution on them. These places should not have been built, and this should never have happened!
For long ago I broke your yoke; I tore off your chains. You insisted, ‘I will not serve! ’ On every high hill and under every green tree you lay down like a prostitute.
You built your elevated place at the head of every street and turned your beauty into a detestable thing. You spread your legs to everyone who passed by and increased your prostitution.
In the days of King Josiah the Lord asked me, ‘Have you seen what unfaithful Israel has done? She has ascended every high hill and gone under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
Look to the barren heights and see. Where have you not been immoral? You sat waiting for them beside the roads like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and defiled her with their lust. But after she was defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.
for your iniquities and the iniquities of your ancestors together,’ says the Lord. ‘Because they burned incense on the mountains and reproached me on the hills, I will reward them fully for their former deeds.’
You will all know that I am the Lord when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and every leafy oak #– #the places where they offered pleasing aromas to all their idols.