Jeremiah 2:20

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

For long ago I broke your yoke and tore off your bonds, but you said, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    For from of old I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree you wandered, playing the harlot.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    For of old time{H5769} I have broken{H7665} thy yoke,{H5923} and burst{H5423} thy bonds;{H4147} and thou saidst,{H559} I will not serve;{H5674} for upon every high{H1364} hill{H1389} and under every green{H7488} tree{H6086} thou didst bow thyself,{H6808} playing the harlot.{H2181}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For of old time{H5769} I have broken{H7665}{(H8804)} thy yoke{H5923}, and burst{H5423}{(H8765)} thy bands{H4147}; and thou saidst{H559}{(H8799)}, I will not transgress{H5674}{(H8799)}{(H8675)}{H5647}{(H8799)}; when upon every high{H1364} hill{H1389} and under every green{H7488} tree{H6086} thou wanderest{H6808}{(H8802)}, playing the harlot{H2181}{(H8802)}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    I haue euer broken thy yock of olde, & bursten thy bondes: yet saiest thou, I wil nomore serue, but (like an harlot) thou runnest aboute vpon all hie hilles, & amonge all grene trees:

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    For of olde time I haue broken thy yoke, and burst thy bondes, and thou saidest, I will no more transgres, but like an harlot thou runnest about vpon al hie hilles, and vnder all greene trees.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    I haue euer broken thy yoke of olde, and burst thy bondes, yet sayest thou: I wyll no more transgresse: but like an harlot thou runnest about vpon all hye hylles, and among all greene trees.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ 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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not serve; for on every high hill and under every green tree you did bow yourself, playing the prostitute.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    For from of old thou hast broken thy yoke, Drawn away thy bands, and sayest, `I do not serve,' For, on every high height, and under every green tree, Thou art wandering -- a harlot.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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

  • World English Bible (2000)

    "For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, 'I will not serve;' for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    The Lord Expresses His Exasperation at Judah’s Persistent Idolatry“Indeed, long ago you threw off my authority and refused to be subject to me. You said,‘I will not serve you.’ Instead, you gave yourself to other gods on every high hill and under every green tree, like a prostitute sprawls out before her lovers.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 12:2 : 2 Completely destroy all the places where the nations you are dispossessing worshiped their gods—on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
  • Lev 26:13 : 13 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to them; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high.
  • Jer 17:2 : 2 Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles beside the green trees on the high hills.
  • Jer 30:8 : 8 On that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will break the yoke off your neck and tear away your bonds. Foreigners will no longer enslave you.
  • Isa 1:21 : 21 How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness once dwelt in her, but now murderers.
  • Hos 3:3 : 3 And I said to her, "You must stay with me for many days. You shall not engage in prostitution or belong to another man, and I will also remain loyal to you."
  • Nah 1:13 : 13 Now I will break their yoke from your neck and tear your shackles away.
  • Isa 9:4 : 4 Every warrior’s boot used in battle and every garment rolled in blood will be destined for burning, fuel for the fire.
  • Isa 10:27 : 27 On that day, their burden will be lifted from your shoulders, their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be broken because of your strength.
  • Isa 14:25 : 25 I will break Assyria in My land and trample him on My mountains. Then his yoke will be taken off their shoulders, and his burden removed from their necks.
  • Isa 57:5-7 : 5 You burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree; you slaughter children in the valleys, under crags of the cliffs. 6 Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion; they, indeed, are your lot. To them you have poured out drink offerings and presented grain offerings. Should I relent concerning these things? 7 You have placed your bed on a high and lofty mountain; there you went up to offer sacrifices.
  • Jer 3:1-2 : 1 If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, should he take her back again? Wouldn't such a land become completely defiled? You have lived as a prostitute with many lovers—yet you want to return to me? declares the LORD. 2 Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Where have you not been violated? By the roads you sat waiting for lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
  • Jer 3:6-8 : 6 During the reign of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, "Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has prostituted herself there." 7 I thought, 'After she has done all this, she will return to me.' But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it. 8 I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and prostituted herself.
  • Ezek 16:15-16 : 15 But you trusted in your beauty and acted like a prostitute because of your fame. You lavished your acts of prostitution on every passerby, willing to be his. 16 You took your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them, you committed prostitution. Such things should not have happened, nor should they occur.
  • Ezek 16:24-25 : 24 You built yourselves a mound and made high places at every street corner. 25 At the head of every street, you built your high places. You degraded your beauty by spreading your legs to every passerby and multiplied your acts of prostitution.
  • Ezek 16:28 : 28 You prostituted yourself with the Assyrians because you were never satisfied. Even after prostituting yourself with them, you were not satisfied.
  • Ezek 16:31 : 31 When you built your mounds at the head of every road and made your high places in every street, you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.
  • Ezek 16:41 : 41 They will burn down your houses and execute judgment on you in the sight of many women. I will bring an end to your prostitution, and you will no longer pay fees to anyone.
  • Ezek 20:28 : 28 When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them, and they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there, provoked me with their offerings, placed their pleasing aromas, and poured out their drink offerings there.
  • Ezek 23:5 : 5 Oholah was unfaithful to me and lusted after her lovers—the Assyrians, who were near.
  • Hos 2:5 : 5 Otherwise, I will strip her naked, expose her as on the day of her birth. I will make her like a wilderness, turn her into a dry land, and let her die of thirst.
  • Deut 4:20 : 20 But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of His inheritance, as you are today.
  • Deut 4:34 : 34 Or has any god ever tried to take for himself a nation from within another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
  • Deut 5:27 : 27 Go near and listen to all that the LORD our God says. Then you can tell us everything the LORD our God tells you, and we will listen and obey.
  • Exod 3:8 : 8 'So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the place of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.'
  • Exod 19:8 : 8 And all the people answered together, saying, 'We will do everything the LORD has spoken.' Moses brought their words back to the LORD.
  • Exod 24:3 : 3 Moses came and told the people all the LORD's words and laws. The people responded with one voice, saying, "We will do everything the LORD has said."
  • Exod 34:14-16 : 14 For you must not worship any other god, because the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. 15 Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat from their sacrifices. 16 And when you take some of their daughters as wives for your sons, their daughters will lead your sons to prostitute themselves to their gods.
  • Deut 15:15 : 15 Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you. That is why I am giving you this command today.
  • Deut 26:17 : 17 Today you have declared that the LORD will be your God, that you will walk in His ways, keep His statutes, commandments, and judgments, and obey His voice.
  • Josh 1:16 : 16 They answered Joshua, saying, “We will do everything you have commanded us, and we will go wherever you send us.
  • Josh 24:24 : 24 The people said to Joshua, "We will serve the LORD our God and obey His voice.
  • Josh 24:26 : 26 Joshua recorded these words in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak tree near the sanctuary of the LORD.
  • 1 Sam 12:10 : 10 Then they cried out to the LORD, saying, 'We have sinned, for we have abandoned the LORD and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth. But now, deliver us from the hands of our enemies, and we will serve You.'
  • 1 Kgs 12:32 : 32 He instituted a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival held in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. He did this in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves he had made. And there at Bethel he installed priests for the high places he had made.
  • Ps 78:58 : 58 They angered Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their carved images.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Jer 3:6-9
    4 verses
    83%

    6 During the reign of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, "Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has prostituted herself there."

    7 I thought, 'After she has done all this, she will return to me.' But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.

    8 I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and prostituted herself.

    9 Because Israel's immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.

  • Jer 3:1-3
    3 verses
    81%

    1 If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, should he take her back again? Wouldn't such a land become completely defiled? You have lived as a prostitute with many lovers—yet you want to return to me? declares the LORD.

    2 Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Where have you not been violated? By the roads you sat waiting for lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

    3 Therefore, the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen face of a prostitute; you refuse to show any shame.

  • Jer 2:19
    80%

    19 Your own wickedness will discipline you; your backslidings will rebuke you. Consider and see how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of me,” declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty.

  • Jer 2:21
    79%

    21 I planted you as a choice vine, from the very best seed. How then have you turned into wild, degenerate branches of a foreign vine for me?

  • Jer 3:20
    78%

    20 But like a woman unfaithful to her husband, so you, Israel, have been unfaithful to me,' declares the LORD.

  • Jer 5:7
    78%

    7 How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by false gods. I satisfied them, but they committed adultery and gathered at the houses of prostitutes.

  • Jer 3:13-14
    2 verses
    78%

    13 Only acknowledge your guilt—that you have rebelled against the LORD your God, scattered your favors to strangers under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed my voice,' declares the LORD.

    14 Return, faithless children,' declares the LORD, 'for I am your master. I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.

  • Ezek 16:15-17
    3 verses
    78%

    15 But you trusted in your beauty and acted like a prostitute because of your fame. You lavished your acts of prostitution on every passerby, willing to be his.

    16 You took your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them, you committed prostitution. Such things should not have happened, nor should they occur.

    17 You also took the fine jewelry made of gold and silver that I had given you, and you made male idols for yourself and engaged in prostitution with them.

  • Ezek 16:28-31
    4 verses
    78%

    28 You prostituted yourself with the Assyrians because you were never satisfied. Even after prostituting yourself with them, you were not satisfied.

    29 You also multiplied your promiscuity in the land of Canaan and even with the Chaldeans, yet even with this, you were not satisfied.

    30 ‘How weak is your heart,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘that you do all these things, the actions of a brazen prostitute!

    31 When you built your mounds at the head of every road and made your high places in every street, you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

  • Ezek 16:25-26
    2 verses
    77%

    25 At the head of every street, you built your high places. You degraded your beauty by spreading your legs to every passerby and multiplied your acts of prostitution.

    26 You engaged in prostitution with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, and multiplied your acts of prostitution to anger me.

  • Ezek 23:30
    77%

    30 These things will be done to you because you prostituted yourself to the nations, defiling yourself with their idols.

  • Jer 11:15
    77%

    15 What right does my beloved have in my house, when she has done so many wicked schemes? Can consecrated meat remove your evil? Then you would exult!

  • Nah 1:13
    76%

    13 Now I will break their yoke from your neck and tear your shackles away.

  • Ezek 16:35-36
    2 verses
    76%

    35 Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD.

    36 This is what the Lord GOD says: Because you poured out your lust and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers and because of all your detestable idols and the blood of your children you gave to them,

  • Ezek 23:35
    76%

    35 Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: 'Because you have forgotten me and thrust me behind your back, you must also bear the consequences of your lewdness and prostitution.'

  • Jer 2:23
    76%

    23 How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not followed the Baals’? Consider your path in the valley; acknowledge what you have done—like a swift young she-camel running here and there.

  • Ezek 16:58
    76%

    58 You have borne the penalty of your lewdness and abominations, declares the LORD.

  • Hos 4:13
    75%

    13 They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, where the shade is pleasant. Therefore your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.

  • Jer 2:2
    75%

    2 Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: ‘This is what the LORD says: I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

  • Jer 13:27
    75%

    27 Your adulteries, your lustful neighings, your wicked acts of prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable behavior. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How much longer will it be before you are made clean?

  • Isa 57:8
    75%

    8 Behind your doors and doorposts you have set up your pagan symbols. Forsaking me, you uncovered your bed, climbing into it and opening it wide; you made a pact with them, you loved their beds and gazed on their manhood.

  • Hos 2:5-7
    3 verses
    75%

    5 Otherwise, I will strip her naked, expose her as on the day of her birth. I will make her like a wilderness, turn her into a dry land, and let her die of thirst.

    6 I will not show mercy to her children, for they are the children of unfaithfulness.

    7 Their mother has been unfaithful; their conceiver acted shamefully. She said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread, water, wool, flax, oil, and drink.'

  • Ezek 16:43
    75%

    43 Because you did not remember the days of your youth but enraged me with all these things, I will bring your conduct down upon your own head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your other detestable acts?

  • Ezek 16:22
    75%

    22 In all your detestable practices and prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, kicking about in your blood.

  • Hos 5:3
    74%

    3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the harlot; Israel is defiled.

  • Jer 2:7
    74%

    7 I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and its bounty. But you came and defiled my land. You made my inheritance detestable.

  • Hos 2:13
    74%

    13 I will put an end to all her celebrations: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her appointed festivals.

  • Jer 22:21
    74%

    21 I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, 'I will not listen.' This has been your way since your youth; you have not obeyed me.

  • Ezek 16:8
    74%

    8 Then I passed by you again and saw you, and behold, you were at the age for love. So I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness. I made my vow to you, entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord GOD, and you became mine.

  • Hos 4:15
    74%

    15 Though you, Israel, play the harlot, let not Judah become guilty. Do not go to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth Aven, and do not swear, 'As surely as the LORD lives!'

  • Ezek 6:9
    74%

    9 Then your survivors will remember Me among the nations where they are taken captive—how I was grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes which lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their detestable practices.

  • Prov 2:17
    74%

    17 who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;

  • Ezek 23:21
    74%

    21 So you revisited the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians fondled your breasts and caressed your young bosom.

  • Jer 15:6
    73%

    6 'You have rejected Me,' declares the LORD. 'You keep going backward. So I have stretched out My hand against you and destroyed you; I am tired of relenting.'

  • Jer 2:33
    73%

    33 How skilled you are at pursuing love! Even the worst of women you have taught your ways.

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