Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains,(A) on the hills and under every spreading tree,(B) where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods.

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You burn with lust among the oaks(A)
    and under every spreading tree;(B)
you sacrifice your children(C) in the ravines
    and under the overhanging crags.

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You have made your bed on a high and lofty hill;(A)
    there you went up to offer your sacrifices.(B)

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“Look up to the barren heights(A) and see.
    Is there any place where you have not been ravished?
By the roadside(B) you sat waiting for lovers,
    sat like a nomad in the desert.
You have defiled the land(C)
    with your prostitution(D) and wickedness.

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Unfaithful Israel

During the reign of King Josiah,(A) the Lord said to me, “Have you seen what faithless(B) Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree(C) and has committed adultery(D) there.

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Even their children remember
    their altars and Asherah poles[a](A)
beside the spreading trees
    and on the high hills.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 17:2 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah

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