Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou hast made thy bed upon high mountains; thou wentest up thither, and there hast thou slain sacrifices.

New American Standard Bible

“Upon a high and lofty mountain
You have made your bed.
You also went up there to offer sacrifice.

King James Version

Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.

Holman Bible

You have placed your bed
on a high and lofty mountain;
you also went up there to offer sacrifice.

International Standard Version

"You have made your bed on a high and lofty mountain, and you went up to offer sacrifice there.

A Conservative Version

Upon a high and lofty mountain thou have set thy bed. Thou also went up there to offer sacrifice.

American Standard Version

Upon a high and lofty mountain hast thou set thy bed; thither also wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.

Amplified


“Upon a high and lofty mountain
You have [openly and shamelessly] made your [idolatrous and adulterous] bed;
Even there you went up to offer sacrifice [to idols, in spiritual unfaithfulness to Me].

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither didst thou go up to offer sacrifice.

Julia Smith Translation

Upon a mountain high and lifted up thou didst set thy bed: also there thou wentest up to sacrifice a sacrifice.

King James 2000

Upon a lofty and high mountain have you set your bed: even there you went up to offer sacrifice.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You have set your bed upon a high and lofty mountain; indeed, you went up there to slaughter sacrifice.

Modern King James verseion

On a lofty and high mountain you have set your bed; even there you went up to offer sacrifice.

NET Bible

On every high, elevated hill you prepare your bed; you go up there to offer sacrifices.

New Heart English Bible

On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed; there also you went up to offer sacrifice.

The Emphasized Bible

On a mountain high and uplifted, hast thou set thy couch, - Even thither, hast thou gone up, to offer sacrifice;

Webster

Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither thou wentest up to offer sacrifice.

World English Bible

On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed; there also you went up to offer sacrifice.

Youngs Literal Translation

On a mountain, high and exalted, Thou hast set thy couch, Also thither thou hast gone up to make a sacrifice.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
גּבוהּ גּבהּ 
Gaboahh 
Usage: 37

and high
נסה נשׂא 
Nasa' 
Usage: 653

הר 
Har 
Usage: 544

hast thou set
שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

משׁכּב 
Mishkab 
Usage: 46

even thither wentest thou up
עלה 
`alah 
Usage: 890

to offer
זבח 
Zabach 
Usage: 134

Context Readings

Idolatry Is Adultery

6 Thy part shall be with the stony rocks by the river: Yea, even these shall be thy part. For there thou hast poured meat and drink offerings unto them. Should I delight in that? 7 Thou hast made thy bed upon high mountains; thou wentest up thither, and there hast thou slain sacrifices. 8 Behind the doors and posts, hast thou set up thy remembrance: When thou hast uncovered thyself to another than me, when thou wentest down and made thy bed wider, when thou didst carve the certain of yonder Idols, and lovedest their couches, where thou sawest them.

Cross References

Ezekiel 16:16

Yea, thou hast taken thy garments of divers colors, and decked thine altars therewith, whereupon thou mightest fulfill thine whoredom, of such a fashion as never was done, nor shall be.

Ezekiel 23:41

Thou sattest upon a goodly bed, and a table spread before thee: whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.

Jeremiah 2:20

"I have ever broken thy yoke of old, and bursten thy bonds: yet sayest thou, 'I will no more serve.' But like a harlot thou runnest about upon all high hills,

Jeremiah 3:2

Lift up thine eyes on every side, and look, if thou be not defiled. Thou hast waited for them in the streets, and as a murderer in the wilderness. through thy whoredoms and shameful blasphemies, is the land defiled.

Jeremiah 3:6

The LORD said also unto me, in the time of Josiah the king, "Hast thou seen what that shrinking Israel hath done? How she hath run up upon all high hills, and among all thick trees, and there played the harlot?

Ezekiel 16:25

Thou hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, thou hast laid out thy legs to every one that came by, and multiplied thine whoredom.

Ezekiel 20:28-29

For after I had brought them into the land that I promised to give them, when they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees: they made there offerings, and provoked me with their oblations, making sweet savours there, and poured out their drink offerings.

Ezekiel 23:17

Now when the Babylonians came to her, they lay with her, and defiled her with their whoredom, and so was she polluted with them. And when her lust was abated from them,

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