Isaiah 1:29

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Summary

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

Ashamed

Romans 6:21

The oaks

Isaiah 57:5

Hosea 4:13

The gardens

Bible References

Ashamed

And defile ye the thin covering of the carved images of thy silver, and the overlaying of the molten things of thy gold: thou shalt scatter them as a menstruous cloth, thou shalt say to it, Go forth.

For in that day they shall reject a man the vanities of his silver, and the vanities of his gold which your hands made for you to sin.

They were ashamed and also disgraced, all of them: together they went in shame the workmen of images.

So that thou shalt remember, and thou wert ashamed, and there shall no more be to thee an opening of the mouth from the face of thy shame in my expiating for thee for all which thou didst, says the Lord Jehovah.

And ye remembered your evil ways and your doings which not being good, and ye loathed with your faces for your iniquities and for your abominations.

Assur will not save us; we will not ride upon a horse, and we will no more say, Our God, to the work of our hands, for in thee the orphan shall be compassionated.

Therefore what fruit had ye then of what ye are now ashamed? for the end of these, death.

The oaks

Being comforted with gods under every green tree, slaughtering the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

Upon the heads of the mountains they will sacrifice, and upon the hills they will burn incense, under the oak and the white poplar and the terebinth, because its shadow was good: for this your daughters will commit fornication, and your brides shall commit adultery.

The gardens

The people irritating me to my face continually; sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense upon bricks;

They consecrating themselves and cleansing themselves in the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse; together shall they perish, says Jehovah

For from of old I broke thy yoke, I burst thy bonds; and thou wilt say, I will not serve; for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou turnest one side, committing fornication:

And Jehovah will say to me in the days of Josiah the king, Sawest thou what Israel turning back, did? She went up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and she will commit fornication there.