Isaiah 57:7
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Upon a high and lofty mountain thou hast laid thy bed, and hast gone up thither to offer victims.

Jeremiah 2:20 Of old time thou hast broken my yoke, thou hast burst my bands, and thou saidst: I will not serve. For on every high hill, and under every green tree thou didst prostitute thyself.

Jeremiah 3:2 Lift up thy eyes on high: and see where thou hast not prostituted thyself: thou didst sit in the ways, waiting for them as a robber in the wilderness: and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications, and with thy wickedness.

Ezekiel 16:16,25 And taking of thy garments thou hast made thee high places sewed together on each side: and hast played the harlot upon them, as hath not been done before, nor shall be hereafter. . . .

Ezekiel 20:28,29 And I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my hand to give it them: they saw every high hill, and every shady tree, and there they sacrificed their victims: and there they presented the provocation of their offerings, and there they set their sweet odours, and poured forth their libations. . . .

Ezekiel 23:17,41 And when the sons of Babylon were come to her to the bed of love, they defiled her with their fornications, and she was polluted by them, and her soul was glutted with them. . . .

Context
God Condemns Idolatry
6In the parts of the torrent is thy portion, this is thy lot: and thou hast poured out libations to them, thou hast offered sacrifice. Shall I not be angry at these things? 7Upon a high and lofty mountain thou hast laid thy bed, and hast gone up thither to offer victims.8And behind the door, and behind the post thou hast set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself near me, and hast received an adulterer: thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made a covenant with them: thou hast loved their bed with open hand.…
Cross References
Isaiah 57:3
But draw near hither, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer, and of the harlot.

Isaiah 65:7
Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, who have sacrificed upon the mountains, and have reproached me upon the hills; and I will measure back their first work in their bosom.

Jeremiah 2:20
Of old time thou hast broken my yoke, thou hast burst my bands, and thou saidst: I will not serve. For on every high hill, and under every green tree thou didst prostitute thyself.

Jeremiah 3:6
And the Lord said to me in the days of king Josias: Hast thou seen what rebellious Israel hath done? she hath gone of herself upon every high mountain, and under every green tree, and hath played the harlot there.

Ezekiel 16:16
And taking of thy garments thou hast made thee high places sewed together on each side: and hast played the harlot upon them, as hath not been done before, nor shall be hereafter.

Ezekiel 16:24
That thou didst also build thee a common stew, and madest thee a brothel house in every street.

Ezekiel 23:41
Thou sattest on a very fine bed, and a table was decked before thee: whereupon thou didst set my incense, and my ointment.

Lexicon
On
עַ֤ל (‘al)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

a high
גָּבֹ֙הַּ֙ (gā·ḇō·ah)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1364: Elevated, powerful, arrogant

and lofty
וְנִשָּׂ֔א (wə·niś·śā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5375: To lift, carry, take

hill
הַר־ (har-)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country

you have made
שַׂ֖מְתְּ (śamt)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

your bed,
מִשְׁכָּבֵ֑ךְ (miš·kā·ḇêḵ)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4904: Place of lying, a couch, act of lying

and
גַּם־ (gam-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

there
שָׁ֥ם (šām)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 8033: There, then, thither

you went up
עָלִ֖ית (‘ā·lîṯ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5927: To ascend, in, actively

to offer
לִזְבֹּ֥חַ (liz·bō·aḥ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 2076: To slaughter for sacrifice

sacrifices.
זָֽבַח׃ (zā·ḇaḥ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2077: A slaughter, the flesh of an animal, a sacrifice


Additional Translations
On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.On a lofty and high mountain have you set your bed: even thither went you up to offer sacrifice.

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

On a lofty and high mountain, there is thy bed, and thither thou carriedst up thy meat-offerings:

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

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

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

On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed; there also you went up to offer sacrifice.

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