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31 building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, (A)because you scorned payment.

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31 When you built your mounds at every street corner and made your lofty shrines(A) in every public square, you were unlike a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

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(A)On a high and lofty mountain
    you have set your bed,
    and there you went up to offer sacrifice.

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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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20 “For long ago I (A)broke your yoke
    and burst your bonds;
    but you said, (B)‘I will not serve.’
Yes, (C)on every high hill
    and under every green tree
    you bowed down (D)like a whore.

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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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Lift up your eyes to (A)the bare heights, and see!
    Where have you not been ravished?
(B)By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers
    like an Arab in the wilderness.
(C)You have polluted the land
    with your vile whoredom.

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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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