Verse 8
Isaiah 57:8
World English Bible, British Edition
8
You have set up your memorial behind the doors and the posts,
for you have exposed yourself to someone besides me,
and have gone up.
You have enlarged your bed
and made you a covenant with them.
You loved what you saw on their bed.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/אַחַ֤ר הַ/דֶּ֨לֶת֙ וְ/הַ/מְּזוּזָ֔ה שַׂ֖מְתְּ זִכְרוֹנֵ֑/ךְ כִּ֣י מֵ/אִתִּ֞/י גִּלִּ֣ית וַֽ/תַּעֲלִ֗י הִרְחַ֤בְתְּ מִשְׁכָּבֵ/ךְ֙ וַ/תִּכְרָת לָ֣/ךְ מֵ/הֶ֔ם אָהַ֥בְתְּ מִשְׁכָּבָ֖/ם יָ֥ד חָזִֽית
English Translation
And after the door and the mezuzah, you set your remembrance, because from me you revealed and you ascended, you expanded your bed, and you created for yourself from them, you loved their bed, strong hand.
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Chapter 57 Context
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and no one considers...
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2
He enters into peace.
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each one who walks in his uprightness.
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3
“But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress,
you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.
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4
Whom do you mock?
Against whom do you make a wide mouth
and stick out your tongue?
Aren’t you childr...
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5
you who inflame yourselves amongst the oaks,
under every green tree;
who kill the children in the va...
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6
Amongst the smooth stones of the valley is your portion.
They, they are your lot.
You have even pour...
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7
On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed.
You also went up there to offer sacrifice.
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8
You have set up your memorial behind the doors and the posts,
for you have exposed yourself to someo...
9
You went to the king with oil,
increased your perfumes,
sent your ambassadors far off,
and degraded...
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10
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11
“Whom have you dreaded and feared,
so that you lie,
and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your...
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12
I will declare your righteousness;
and as for your works, they will not benefit you.
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13
When you cry,
let those whom you have gathered deliver you,
but the wind will take them.
A breath wi...
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14
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Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my p...
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15
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16
For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry;
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17
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I will lead him also,
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I create the fruit of the lips:
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20
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21
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