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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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while (A)their children remember their altars and their (B)Asherim, (C)beside every green tree and on the high hills,

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Even their children remember
    their altars and Asherah poles[a](A)
beside the spreading trees
    and on the high hills.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 17:2 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah