KJV King James Version
The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen [that] which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
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Jeremiah 3:6
The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen [that] which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB World English Bible
Moreover, Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.
ASV American Standard Version
Moreover Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Jehovah saith unto me, in the days of Josiah the king, ‘Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? She is going on every high mountain, and unto the place of every green tree, and committeth fornication there.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 3
3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou [art] the guide of my youth?
5 Will he reserve [his anger] for ever? will he keep [it] to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.
6 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen [that] which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
7 And I said after she had done all these [things], Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw [it].
8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
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וַיֹּ֨אמֶרH559 · a.marto sayיְהוָ֜הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDאֵלַ֗יH413 · elto(wards)בִּימֵי֙H3117 · yomdayיֹאשִׁיָּ֣הוּH2977 · yo.shiy.yahJosiahהַמֶּ֔לֶךְH4428 · me.lekhkingהֲֽרָאִ֔יתָH7200 · ra.ahto see: seeאֲשֶׁ֥רH834 · a.sherwhichעָשְׂתָ֖הH6213 · a.sahto make: doמְשֻׁבָ֣הH4878 · me.shu.vahfaithlessnessיִשְׂרָאֵ֑לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelהֹלְכָ֨הH1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentהִ֜יאH1931 · huhe/she/itעַל־H5921 · aluponכָּל־H3605 · kolallהַ֣רH2022 · harmountain: mountגָּבֹ֗הַּH1364 · ga.vo.ahhighוְאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)תַּ֛חַתH8478 · ta.chatunderneath: underכָּל־H3605 · kolallעֵ֥ץH6086 · etstree: woodרַעֲנָ֖ןH7488 · ra.anbe freshוַתִּזְנִי־H2181 · za.nahto fornicateשָֽׁם׃H8033 · shamthere
Cross-references
Jeremiah 2:19-20Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that [it is] an evil [thing] and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear [is] not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.1 Kings 14:23For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.Ezekiel 23:11And when her sister Aholibah saw [this], she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in [her] whoredoms.Ezekiel 16:24-25[That] thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.Ezekiel 16:31In 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;Isaiah 57:7Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.Jeremiah 17:2Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.Jeremiah 3:11-14And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.Jeremiah 3:8And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.Ezekiel 20:28[For] when I had brought them into the land, [for] the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.Jeremiah 7:24But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels [and] in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.2 Kings 17:7-17For [so] it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
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