Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Who
Under the clefts of the crags?
King James Version
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
Holman Bible
under every green tree,
who slaughter children in the wadis
below the clefts of the rocks?
International Standard Version
you who burn with lust among the oaks, under every spreading tree, who slaughter your children in the ravines, under the clefts of the rocks?
A Conservative Version
ye who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree, who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
American Standard Version
ye that inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; that slay the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
Amplified
Who inflame yourselves [with lust in pagan rites] among the oaks (terebinth trees),
Under every green and leafy tree,
Who slaughter the children [in sacrifice] in the ravines
Under the clefts of the rocks?
Bible in Basic English
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?
Darby Translation
inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?
Julia Smith Translation
Being comforted with gods under every green tree, slaughtering the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
King James 2000
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?
Lexham Expanded Bible
who burn with lust among the oaks, under every leafy tree, who slaughter children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
Modern King James verseion
being inflamed with idols under every green tree, killing the little sons in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Ye take your pleasure under the oaks, and under all green trees. And ye offer children in the valleys, and dens of stone.
NET Bible
you who practice ritual sex under the oaks and every green tree, who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs.
New Heart English Bible
you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
The Emphasized Bible
Who inflame yourselves With the terebinths, Under every green tree - Slaying the children, In the torrent-valleys, Under the clefts of the crags:
Webster
Inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the cliffs of the rocks?
World English Bible
you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
Youngs Literal Translation
Who are inflamed among oaks, under every green tree, Slaughtering the children in valleys, Under clefts of the rocks.
Themes
Drink offering » Idolatrous jews » Reproved for offering, to idols
Idolatry » Objects of, worshipped » Under trees
Idolatry » They who practice » Inflame themselves
Jews, the » National character of » Prone to idolatry
Molech » Children sacrificed to
Oak Trees » The ancients often » Performed idolatrous rites under
Offerings » Human sacrifices » israelites
Profit » What is not profitable
Rocks » Used as » Places for idolatrous worship
Sacrifice » Those that sacrifice their children
Sacrifice » Those that sacrifice to idols
Sacrifices » Human beings offered as
Scorning and mocking » Idolaters addicted to
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 57:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Idolatry Is Adultery
4
Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open your mouth wide and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of deceit,
5
Who
Under the clefts of the crags?
Cross References
2 Kings 16:3-4
but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering,according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
Isaiah 1:29
For they shall be ashamed of the oaks that you desired; and you shall blush for the gardens that you have chosen.
Ezekiel 16:20
And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter
Leviticus 18:21
You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.
2 Kings 23:10
And he defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to Molech.
Jeremiah 2:20
"For long ago I broke your yoke and burst your bonds; but you said, 'I will not serve.' Yes, on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down like a whore.
Jeremiah 3:13
Only acknowledge your guilt, that you rebelled against the LORD your God and scattered your favors among foreigners under every green tree, and that you have not obeyed my voice, declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 7:31
And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.
Exodus 32:6
And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.
Leviticus 20:2-5
"Say to the people of Israel, Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.
Numbers 25:1-2
While Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab.
Numbers 25:6
And behold, one of the people of Israel came and brought a Midianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the people of Israel, while they were weeping in the entrance of the tent of meeting.
Deuteronomy 12:2
You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
1 Kings 14:23
For they also built for themselves high places and pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,
2 Kings 17:10
They set up for themselves pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,
2 Chronicles 28:3
and he made offerings in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
Psalm 106:37-38
They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons;
Jeremiah 3:6
The LORD said to me in the days of King Josiah: "Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the whore?
Jeremiah 17:2
while their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree and on the high hills,
Jeremiah 32:35
They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Jeremiah 50:38
A drought against her waters, that they may be dried up! For it is a land of images, and they are mad over idols.
Jeremiah 51:7
Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD's hand, making all the earth drunken; the nations drank of her wine; therefore the nations went mad.
Ezekiel 6:13
And you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing aroma to all their idols.
Ezekiel 20:26
and I defiled them through their very gifts in their offering up all their firstborn, that I might devastate them. I did it that they might know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 20:31
When you present your gifts and offer up your children in fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.
Hosea 4:11-13
whoredom, wine, and new wine, which take away the understanding.
Hosea 7:4-7
They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven whose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
Amos 2:7-8
those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and turn aside the way of the afflicted; a man and his father go in to the same girl, so that my holy name is profaned;
Revelation 17:1-5
Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters,
Revelation 18:3
For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living."