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Isaiah 57:7

What does Isaiah 57:7 mean?

A plain-English look at Isaiah 57:7 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Upon a high and lofty mountain hast thou set thy bed; thither also wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Upon a high and lofty mountain hast thou set thy bed; thither also wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

You have put your bed on a high mountain: there you went up to make your offering.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

On a mountain, high and exalted, Thou hast set thy couch, Also thither thou hast gone up to make a sacrifice.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Upon a high and lofty mountain thou hast laid thy bed, and hast gone up thither to offer victims.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither didst thou go up to offer sacrifice.

Context

v.6Among the smooth stones of the valley is thy portion; they, they are thy lot; even to them hast thou poured a drink-offering, thou hast offered an oblation. Shall I be appeased for these things?

v.7This passage

v.8And behind the doors and the posts hast thou set up thy memorial: for thou hast uncovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them: thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ezekiel 16:16

    And thou didst take of thy garments, and madest for thee high places decked with divers colors, and playedst the harlot upon them: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.

  • Jeremiah 3:2

    Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

  • Ezekiel 23:41

    and sit upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon thou didst set mine incense and mine oil.

  • Ezekiel 20:28

    For when I had brought them into the land, which I sware to give unto them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there also they made their sweet savor, and they poured out there their drink-offerings.

  • Jeremiah 3:6

    Moreover Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

  • Ezekiel 16:25

    Thou hast built thy lofty place at the head of every way, and hast made thy beauty an abomination, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredom.

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