Destroy completely all the places where the nations that you are driving out worship their gods(A)—on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.

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He sacrificed and burned incense(A) on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.(B)

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He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places,(A) on the hills, and under every green tree.

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who burn with lust among the oaks,
under every green tree,(A)
who slaughter children in the wadis
below the clefts of the rocks?(B)

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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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Footnotes

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

Unfaithful Israel, Treacherous Judah

In the days of King Josiah the Lord asked me, “Have you seen what unfaithful Israel has done? She has ascended every high hill and gone under every green tree to prostitute herself there.(A)

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13 Only acknowledge your guilt(A)
you have rebelled against the Lord your God.(B)
You have scattered your favors to strangers
under every green tree(C)
and have not obeyed My voice.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

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47 and say to the forest there: Hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Lord God says: I am about to ignite a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree and every dry tree in you. The blazing flame will not be extinguished, and every face from the south to the north will be scorched by it.

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