Jeremiah 2:20 - Modern King James Version

²⁰ For long ago you broke your yoke and tore up your bonds; and you said, I will not transgress, when on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down like a harlot.

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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 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 12:32

And Jeroboam ordered a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah. And he offered on the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built high places for themselves, and images, and Asherahs, on every high hill and under every green tree.

Psalm 107:14

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands in two.

Psalm 2:3

Let us break their bands in two and cast away their cords from us.

Psalm 78:58

For they provoked Him to anger 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 Jehovah has spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people to Jehovah.

Exodus 24:3

And Moses came and told the people all the Words of Jehovah, and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, All the words which Jehovah has said, we will do.

Exodus 3:8

And I am coming down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, to bring them up out of that land, to a good land, a large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites and the Jebusites.

Isaiah 1:21

How has the faithful city become a harlot? It was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers.

Isaiah 10:27

And it shall be, in that day his burden shall be taken away from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

Isaiah 14:25

to break Assyria in My land, and on My mountains, trample him under foot. Then his yoke shall be removed from them, and his burden shall be taken off their shoulders.

Isaiah 9:4

For You have broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his taskmaster, as in the day of Midian.

Jeremiah 13:27

I have seen your adulteries, and your neighings, the wickedness of your fornication, and your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! Will you not be made clean? How long will it still be?

Jeremiah 17:2

while their sons remember their altars and their Asherahs by the green trees on the high hills.

Jeremiah 2:31

O generation, see the Word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of darkness? Why do My people say, We roam freely; we will come no more to You?

Jeremiah 3:13

Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have sinned against Jehovah your God and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice, says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 30:8

For it shall be in that day, says Jehovah of Hosts, I will break his yoke from your neck and will burst your bonds. And strangers shall no longer enslave him,

Jeremiah 5:5

I will go up for myself to the great men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of Jehovah and the judgment of their God. But these have broken the yoke together and have torn off the bonds!

Ezekiel 16:28

You have whored with the Assyrians, without your being satisfied; yea, you whored and yet you were not satisfied.

Ezekiel 16:31

in that you build your mound at the head of every way, and make your high place in every street. Yet you have not been as a harlot, scorning wages.

Ezekiel 16:41

And they shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. And I will make you stop whoring; and also, you shall not give hire again.

Ezekiel 20:28

When I had brought them into the land for which I lifted up My hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered their sacrifices there. And there they offered their provoking gifts. There also they made their sweet aroma, and poured out their drink offerings there.

Ezekiel 23:5

And Oholah whored under Me. And she lusted after her lovers, to her Assyrian neighbors,

Hosea 1:2

The beginning of Jehovah speaking by Hosea. And Jehovah said to Hosea, Go, take to yourself a wife of adultery and children of adultery. For the land has utterly gone lusting away from Jehovah.

Hosea 2:5

For their mother has prostituted herself. She who conceived them has done shamefully. For she said, I will go after my lovers who give my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

Hosea 3:3

And I said to her, You shall abide for me many days. You shall not be a harlot, nor be for a man. And I also will be for you.

Hosea 4:13

They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because its shade is good. So your daughters shall be harlots, and your brides shall commit adultery.

Hosea 9:1

O Israel, rejoice not for joy, like the peoples. For you have gone lusting away from your God; you have loved a reward on every grain floor.

Leviticus 26:13

I am Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from being their bondmen. And I have broken the bonds of your yoke, and made you go upright.

Nahum 1:13

For now I will break his yoke off you, and will burst your bonds apart.

Deuteronomy 12:2

You shall completely destroy all the places in which the nations which you shall possess served their gods, 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 Egypt, and Jehovah your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.

Deuteronomy 26:17

You have today said that Jehovah is your God, and that you would walk in His ways, and keep His statutes and His commandments and His judgments, and listen to His voice.

Deuteronomy 4:20

But Jehovah has taken you and brought you out from the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to Him a people of inheritance, as you are today.

Deuteronomy 4:34

Or has God gone forth to take a nation for Himself from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

Deuteronomy 5:27

You go near and hear all that Jehovah our God shall say. And you speak to us all that Jehovah our God shall speak to you, and we will hear and act.

Joshua 1:16

And they answered Joshua, saying: We will do all that you command us, and wherever you send us we will go.

Joshua 24:24

And the people said to Joshua, We will serve Jehovah our God, and His voice we will obey.

Joshua 24:26

And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the Law of God, and took a great stone and set it up there under an oak by the sanctuary of Jehovah.

Revelation 17:1

And one of the seven angels who had the seven vials came and talked with me, saying to me, Come here, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot sitting on many waters,

Judges 10:6

And the sons of Israel did evil again in the sight of Jehovah, and served the Baals and Ashtoreths, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the sons of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. And they left Jehovah, and did not serve Him.

Judges 2:11

And the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and served Baals.

Judges 2:13

And they forsook Jehovah and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

1 Samuel 12:10

And they cried to Jehovah, and said, We have sinned because we have forsaken Jehovah, and have served the Baals and Ashtoreths. But now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve You.