But as for you, come here, you children of a sorceress, you offspring of an adulterer and a whore.
Isaiah 57:7 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional Upon a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifice. Higit pang mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Upon a lofty and high mountain you have openly and shamelessly set your [idolatrous and adulterous] bed; even there you went up to offer sacrifice [in spiritual unfaithfulness to your divine Husband]. American Standard Version (1901) Upon a high and lofty mountain hast thou set thy bed; thither also wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. Common English Bible On a very high mountain you made your bed. You went up there to offer a sacrifice. Catholic Public Domain Version Upon a high and lofty mountain, you have placed your bed, and you have ascended to that place to immolate victims. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Upon a high and lofty mountain thou hast laid thy bed and hast gone up thither to offer victims. |
But as for you, come here, you children of a sorceress, you offspring of an adulterer and a whore.
their iniquities and their ancestors' iniquities together, says the Lord; because they offered incense on the mountains and reviled me on the hills, I will measure into their laps full payment for their actions.
For long ago you broke your yoke and burst your bonds, and you said, “I will not serve!” On every high hill and under every green tree you sprawled and played the whore.
Look up to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? By the waysides you have sat waiting for lovers, like a nomad in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your whoring and wickedness.
The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and played the whore there?
You took some of your garments, and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore; nothing like this has ever been or ever shall be.
you built yourself a platform and made yourself a lofty place in every square;
at the head of every street you built your lofty place and prostituted your beauty, offering yourself to every passer-by, and multiplying your whoring.
And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their lust; and after she defiled herself with them, she turned from them in disgust.
you sat on a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.
And you shall know that I am the Lord, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountain tops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing odor to all their idols.