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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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31 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;

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Jerusalem’s Adultery

31 (A)“You erected your shrine at the head of every road, and built your [a]high place in every street. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned (B)payment.

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  1. Ezekiel 16:31 Place for pagan worship

(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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Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.

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“On(A) a lofty and high mountain
You have set (B)your bed;
Even there you went up
To offer sacrifice.

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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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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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20 “For of old I have (A)broken your yoke and burst your bonds;
And (B)you said, ‘I will not [a]transgress,’
When (C)on every high hill and under every green tree
You lay down, (D)playing the harlot.

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  1. Jeremiah 2:20 Kt. serve

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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Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

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“Lift up your eyes to (A)the desolate heights and see:
Where have you not [a]lain with men?
(B)By the road you have sat for them
Like an Arabian in the wilderness;
(C)And you have polluted the land
With your harlotries and your wickedness.

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  1. Jeremiah 3:2 Kt. been violated