Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it i
Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.
But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were
When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered
you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square.
She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet
All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the la
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green t
On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.
Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They
Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles by the green trees and on the high hills.
And the LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than unfaithful Judah.