Parallel Verses

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.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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 Is your portion among the smooth stones of the stream? They indeed are your lot! Even to them you have poured a drink offering. You have offered a grain offering. Should this give me comfort? 7 “Upon a high and lofty mountain
You have made your bed.
You also went up there to offer sacrifice.
8 You ordained your memorial behind the doors and their posts. You revealed (uncovered) yourself to those other than me. You went to them. You enlarged your bed and made a covenant with them. You have loved their bed, where you saw their naked manhood.

Cross References

Ezekiel 16:16

You took some of your clothes and made your worship sites colorful. This is where you acted like a prostitute. Such things should not happen. They should not occur.

Ezekiel 23:41

You sat on a splendid couch with a table arranged before it on which you had set my incense and my oil.

Jeremiah 2:20

Long ago you broke off your yoke, tore off your bonds, and said that you would not be a slave. You lay down and acted like a prostitute on every high hill and under every large tree.

Jeremiah 3:2

Lift up your eyes to the bare hills and see. You have had sex with men in every place. You sat by the roadside waiting for them like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled (corrupted) (profaned) the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

Jeremiah 3:6

During the reign of King Josiah, Jehovah asked me: Did you see what unfaithful Israel did? She went up every high mountain and under every large tree, and she acted like a prostitute there.

Ezekiel 16:25

You dragged your beauty through the mud. You offered yourself to everyone who came by, and you were more of a prostitute every day.

Ezekiel 20:28-29

I brought them to the land I had promised to give them. When they saw the high hills and green trees, they offered sacrifices at all of them. They made me angry by the sacrifices they burned and by the wine they brought as offerings.

Ezekiel 23:17

The Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and defiled her with their acts of prostitution. When they had defiled her, she became disgusted with them.

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