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Isaiah 57:7

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

KJV

Super montem excelsum et sublimem posuisti cubile tuum, et illuc ascendisti ut immolares hostias.

Vulgate

ἐπ’ ὄρος ὑψηλὸν καὶ μετέωρον, ἐκεῖ σου ἡ κοίτη, καὶ ἐκεὶ ἀνεβίβασας θυσίας·

LXX

Upon a high and lofty mountain hast thou set thy bed; thither also wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.

ASV

עַ֤ל הַר גָּבֹ֨הַּ֙ וְ/נִשָּׂ֔א שַׂ֖מְתְּ מִשְׁכָּבֵ֑/ךְ גַּם שָׁ֥ם עָלִ֖ית לִ/זְבֹּ֥חַ זָֽבַח

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

גְבֹהָ֔ה
gbhh
adjective · 37×
גַּם
gm
adverb · 764×
ה
h
adverb · 827×
הַ֣ר
hr
noun · 544×
וֹ
v
noun · 45×
זֶ֣בַח
zbch
noun · 160×
יִּשְׂא֥וּ
ysh'v
verb · 652×
יַּ֥עַל
y'l
verb · 885×
יָּ֥שֶׂם
yshm
verb · 581×
מְזַבְּחִ֥ים
mzbchym
verb · 132×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Does religion regard only our relation to God? Is religion a virtue? Is religion one virtue? Is religion a special virtue? Is religion a theological virtue? Should religion be preferred to the other moral virtues? Does religion have any external actions? Is religion the same as holiness? Article 1. Whether religion directs man to God alone? Objection 1. It would seem that relig…

Cross-references

  • Ezek 16:16 — And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
  • Ezek 16:24 — That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
  • Ezek 16:25 — Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
  • Ezek 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
  • Ezek 23:41 — And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.
  • Ezek 23:41 — And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.
  • Isa 65:7 — Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work
  • Jer 2:20 — 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.
  • Jer 2:33 — Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
  • Jer 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 pl
  • Prov 7:17 — I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.