Isaiah 57:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Ezek 16:16 : 16 And you took your robes and made high places for yourself ornamented with every colour, acting like a loose woman on them, without shame or fear.
  • Ezek 23:41 : 41 And she took her seat on a great bed, with a table put ready before it on which she put my perfume and my oil.
  • Jer 2:20 : 20 For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman
  • Jer 3:2 : 2 Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.
  • Jer 3:6 : 6 And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what Israel, turning away from me, has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every branching tree, acting like a loose woman there.
  • Ezek 16:25 : 25 You put up your high places at the top of every street, and made the grace of your form a disgusting thing, opening your feet to everyone who went by, increasing your loose ways.
  • Ezek 20:28-29 : 28 For when I had taken them into the land which I made an oath to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every branching tree and made their offerings there, moving me to wrath by their offerings; and there the sweet smell of their offerings went up and their drink offerings were drained out. 29 Then I said to them, What is this high place where you go to no purpose? And it is named Bamah to this day.
  • Ezek 23:17 : 17 And the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love, and made her unclean with their loose desire, and she became unclean with them, and her soul was turned from them.

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  • Isa 57:8-9
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    8 And on the back of the doors and on the pillars you have put your sign: for you have been false to me with another; you have made your bed wide, and made an agreement with them; you had a desire for their bed where you saw it

    9 And you went to Melech with oil and much perfume, and you sent your representatives far off, and went as low as the underworld.

  • Ezek 23:40-41
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    40 And she even sent for men to come from far away, to whom a servant was sent, and they came: for whom she was washing her body and painting her eyes and making herself fair with ornaments.

    41 And she took her seat on a great bed, with a table put ready before it on which she put my perfume and my oil.

  • Isa 57:5-6
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    77%

    5 You who are burning with evil desire among the oaks, under every green tree; putting children to death in the valleys, under the cracks of the rocks?

    6 Among the smooth stones of the valley is your heritage; they, even they, are your part: even to them have you made a drink offering and a meal offering. Is it possible for such things to be overlooked by me?

  • Ezek 16:24-26
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    75%

    24 That you made for yourself an arched room in every open place.

    25 You put up your high places at the top of every street, and made the grace of your form a disgusting thing, opening your feet to everyone who went by, increasing your loose ways.

    26 And you went with the Egyptians, your neighbours, great of flesh; increasing your loose ways, moving me to wrath.

  • Jer 3:2
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    2 Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.

  • Isa 2:14
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    14 And on all the high mountains, and on all the hills which are lifted up;

  • Ezek 16:31
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    31 For you have made your arched room at the top of every street, and your high place in every open place; though you were not like a loose woman in getting together your payment.

  • Hos 4:13
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    13 They make offerings on the tops of mountains, burning perfumes in high places, under trees of every sort, because their shade is good: and so your daughters are given up to loose ways and your brides are false to their husbands.

  • Jer 17:2-3
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    2 Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.

    3 I will give your wealth and all your stores to be taken away in war without a price, because of your sins in every part of your land.

  • Jer 2:20
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    20 For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman

  • Ezek 16:16-18
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    71%

    16 And you took your robes and made high places for yourself ornamented with every colour, acting like a loose woman on them, without shame or fear.

    17 And you took the fair jewels, my silver and gold which I had given to you, and made for yourself male images, acting like a loose woman with them;

    18 And you took your robes of needlework for their clothing, and put my oil and my perfume before them.

  • 1 Kgs 3:4
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    4 And the king went to Gibeon to make an offering there, because that was the chief high place: it was Solomon's way to make a thousand burned offerings on that altar.

  • Ezek 20:28
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    28 For when I had taken them into the land which I made an oath to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every branching tree and made their offerings there, moving me to wrath by their offerings; and there the sweet smell of their offerings went up and their drink offerings were drained out.

  • Exod 20:25-26
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    25 And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean.

    26 And do not go up by steps to my altar, for fear that your bodies may be seen uncovered.

  • 1 Sam 2:29
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    29 Why then are you looking with envy on my offerings of meat and of meal which were ordered by my word, honouring your sons before me, and making yourselves fat with all the best of the offerings of Israel, my people?

  • Obad 1:3-4
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    3 You have been tricked by the pride of your heart, O you whose living-place is in the cracks of the rock, whose house is high up; who has said in his heart, Who will make me come down to earth?

    4 Though you go up on high like an eagle, though your house is placed among the stars, I will make you come down from there, says the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
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    11 And more than this, he made high places in the mountains of Judah, teaching the people of Jerusalem to go after false gods, and guiding Judah away from the true way.

  • Jer 11:15
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    15 About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way?

  • Ezek 22:9
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    9 In you there are men who say evil of others, causing death; in you they have taken the flesh with the blood for food; in your streets they have put evil designs into effect.

  • Ps 57:5
    69%

    5 O God, be lifted up higher than the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.

  • Jer 5:7
    69%

    7 How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.

  • Ps 68:16
    69%

    16 Why are you looking with envy, you high hills, on the hill desired by God as his resting-place? truly, God will make it his house for ever.

  • Jer 3:6
    69%

    6 And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what Israel, turning away from me, has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every branching tree, acting like a loose woman there.

  • Deut 27:6-7
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    69%

    6 You are to make the altar of the Lord your God of uncut stones; offering on it burned offerings to the Lord your God:

    7 And you are to make your peace-offerings, feasting there with joy before the Lord your God.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11
    69%

    11 Burning their offerings in all the high places, as those nations did whom the Lord sent away from before them; they did evil things, moving the Lord to wrath;

  • Jer 49:16
    69%

    16 ... the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.

  • Ps 139:8
    69%

    8 If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.

  • Isa 37:23-24
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    23 Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? and against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.

    24 You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; and its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods: I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods.

  • Ps 4:5
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    5 Give the offerings of righteousness, and put your faith in the Lord.

  • Ps 51:19
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    19 Then you will have delight in the offerings of righteousness, in burned offerings and offerings of beasts; then they will make offerings of oxen on your altar.

  • Isa 14:13
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    13 For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north.

  • Isa 22:1
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    1 The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?

  • Ps 74:3
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    3 Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place;

  • Prov 7:16-17
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    16 My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt;

    17 I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.

  • Gen 49:4
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    4 But because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not be yours; for you went up to your father's bed, even his bride-bed, and made it unclean.

  • Ps 97:9
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    9 For you, Lord, are most high over the earth; you are lifted up over all other gods.

  • Ezek 16:58
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    58 The reward of your evil designs and your disgusting ways has come on you, says the Lord.