Jeremiah 3:2

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Summary

Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

Lift

Jeremiah 2:23

Ezekiel 8:4

Luke 16:23

Unto

In the

Thou hast

Jeremiah 3:1

Jeremiah 2:7

General references

Proverbs 7:12

Isaiah 57:7

Bible References

Lift

How sayest thou, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals? See thy way in the valley, acknowledge what thou hast done a swift dromedary traversing her ways!

And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the appearance that I saw in the valley.

And in hades lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

Unto

For of old thou hast broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not serve. For upon every high hill, and under every green tree, thou bowest down, playing the harlot.

Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall dispossess have served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree;

And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

And of thy garments thou didst take, and madest for thyself high places decked with divers colours, and didst play the harlot thereupon: the like hath not come to pass, and shall be no more.

When I had brought them into the land which I had lifted up my hand to give unto them, then they saw every high hill and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering; and there they placed their sweet savour, and there poured out their drink-offerings.

In the

And she put the garments of her widowhood off from her, and covered herself with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the entry of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given to him as wife.

She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house:

She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men.

that thou didst also build unto thee a place of debauchery, and didst make thee a high place in every street:

Thou hast

They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? Would not that land be utterly polluted? But thou hast committed fornication with many lovers; yet return to me, saith Jehovah.

And I brought you into a fruitful land, to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof; and ye entered and defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

General references

now without, now in the broadways, and she lieth in wait at every corner.

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