Isaiah 1:29
Indeed, they will be ashamed of the sacred trees you find so desirable; you will be embarrassed because of the sacred orchards where you choose to worship.
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- Isa 57:5 : 5 you who inflame your lusts among the oaks and under every green tree, who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs.
- Isa 65:3 : 3 These people continually and blatantly offend me as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards and burn incense on brick altars.
- Isa 66:17 : 17 “As for those who consecrate and ritually purify themselves so they can follow their leader and worship in the sacred orchards, those who eat the flesh of pigs and other disgusting creatures, like mice– they will all be destroyed together,” says the LORD.
- Hos 4:13 : 13 They sacrifice on the mountaintops, and burn offerings on the hills; they sacrifice under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is so pleasant. As a result, your daughters have become cult prostitutes, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery!
- Hos 14:3 : 3 Assyria cannot save us; we will not ride warhorses. We will never again say,‘Our gods’ to what our own hands have made. For only you will show compassion to Orphan Israel!”
- Hos 14:8 : 8 O Ephraim, I do not want to have anything to do with idols anymore! I will answer him and care for him. I am like a luxuriant cypress tree; your fruitfulness comes from me!
- Rom 6:21 : 21 So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.
- Isa 30:22 : 22 You will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag, saying to them,“Get out!”
- Isa 31:7 : 7 For at that time everyone will get rid of the silver and gold idols your hands sinfully made.
- Isa 45:16 : 16 They will all be ashamed and embarrassed; those who fashion idols will all be humiliated.
- Jer 2:20 : 20 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.
- Jer 3:6 : 6 When Josiah was king of Judah, the LORD said to me,“Jeremiah, you have no doubt seen what wayward Israel has done. You have seen how she went up to every high hill and under every green tree to give herself like a prostitute to other gods.
- Ezek 6:13 : 13 Then you will know that I am the LORD– when their dead lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and all the mountaintops, under every green tree and every leafy oak, the places where they have offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
- Ezek 16:63 : 63 Then you will remember, be ashamed, and remain silent because of your disgrace when I make atonement for all you have done, declares the Sovereign LORD.’”
- Ezek 36:31 : 31 Then you will remember your evil behavior and your deeds which were not good; you will loathe yourselves on account of your sins and your abominable deeds.
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