THEOSISJeremiah 2:20Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Of old time thou hast broken my yoke, thou hast burst my bands, and thou saidst: I will not serve. For on every high hill, and under every green tree thou didst prostitute thyself.
כִּ֣י מֵעוֹלָ֞ם שָׁבַ֣רְתִּי עֻלֵּ֗ךְ נִתַּ֙קְתִּי֙ מוֹסְרֹתַ֔יִךְ וַתֹּאמְרִ֖י לֹ֣א אעבד אֶעֱב֑וֹר כִּ֣י עַֽל־כָּל־גִּבְעָ֞ה גְּבֹהָ֗ה וְתַ֙חַת֙ כָּל־עֵ֣ץ רַעֲנָ֔ן אַ֖תְּ צֹעָ֥ה זֹנָֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Deut 12:2Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall possess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and under every shady tree:
- Lev 26:13I am the Lord your God: who have brought you out of the land of the Egyptians, that you should not serve them: and who have broken the chains of your necks, that you might go upright.
- Jer 17:2When their children shall remember their altars, and their groves, and their green trees upon the high mountains,
- Jer 30:8And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst his bands: and strangers shall no more rule over him:
- Isa 1:21How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers.
- Hos 3:3And I said to her: Thou shalt wait for me many days: thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt be no man's, and I also will wait for thee.
- Isa 57:5Who seek your comfort in idols under every green tree, sacrificing children in the torrents, under the high rocks?
- Isa 57:7Upon a high and lofty mountain thou hast laid thy bed, and hast gone up thither to offer victims.