You have set up your memorial
behind the door and doorpost.
For away from Me, you stripped,
went up, and made your bed wide,(A)
and you have made a bargain[a] for yourself with them.
You have loved their bed;
you have gazed on their genitals.[b][c]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 57:8 Lit you cut
  2. Isaiah 57:8 Lit hand
  3. Isaiah 57:8 In Hb, the word hand is probably a euphemism for “genitals.”

Behind your doors and your doorposts
    you have put your pagan symbols.
Forsaking me, you uncovered your bed,
    you climbed into it and opened it wide;
you made a pact with those whose beds you love,(A)
    and you looked with lust on their naked bodies.(B)

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Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.

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20 For long ago I[a] broke your yoke;(A)
I[b] tore off your chains.
You insisted, “I will not serve!”
On every high hill
and under every green tree(B)
you lie down like a prostitute.(C)

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  1. Jeremiah 2:20 LXX reads you
  2. Jeremiah 2:20 LXX reads you

20 “Long ago you broke off your yoke(A)
    and tore off your bonds;(B)
    you said, ‘I will not serve you!’(C)
Indeed, on every high hill(D)
    and under every spreading tree(E)
    you lay down as a prostitute.(F)

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20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

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