Isaiah 57 · Verse 7

Isaiah 57:7

Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
Isaiah 57:7, King James Version

Isaiah 57:7 in other translations

BSBOn a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.
WEBOn a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed. You also went up there to offer sacrifice.
ASVUpon a high and lofty mountain hast thou set thy bed; thither also wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
YLTOn a mountain, high and exalted, Thou hast set thy couch, Also thither thou hast gone up to make a sacrifice.
DARBYUpon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither didst thou go up to offer sacrifice.
BBEYou have put your bed on a high mountain: there you went up to make your offering.
WebsterUpon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither thou wentest up to offer sacrifice.

What does Isaiah 57:7 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
7. Upon ... high mountain ... bed--image from adultery, open and shameless (Eze 23:7); the "bed" answers to the idolatrous altar, the scene of their spiritual unfaithfulness to their divine husband (Eze 16:16, 25; 23:41).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 57:3-12

The Lord here calls apostates and hypocrites to appear before him. When reproved for their sins, and threatened with judgments, they ridiculed the word of God. The Jews were guilty of idolatry before the captivity; but not after that affliction. Their zeal in the worship of false gods, may shame our indifference in the worship of the true God. The service of sin is disgraceful slavery; those who thus debase…

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Isaiah 57:7 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

עַ֤ל'alonH5921
הַר\־har-a mountainH2022
גָּבֹ֙הַּ֙ga.Vo.ahhighH1364
וְנִשָּׂ֔אve.ni.Sa'and lifted upH5375
שַׂ֖מְתְּsamtyou have setH7760
מִשְׁכָּבֵ֑ךְmish.ka.Vekhbed yourH4904
גַּם\־gam-alsoH1571
שָׁ֥םshamthereH8033
עָלִ֖ית'a.Lityou have gone upH5927
לִזְבֹּ֥חַliz.Bo.achto sacrificeH2076
זָֽבַח\׃Za.vacha sacrificeH2077

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Isaiah 57:7

  • Ezekiel 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.

  • Ezekiel 23:41

    And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.

  • Jeremiah 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.

  • Ezekiel 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.

  • 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.

  • Ezekiel 20:28-29

    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. Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.

  • Jeremiah 3:2

    Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

  • Ezekiel 23:17

    And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.

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Jer 2:20; 3:2; Eze 16:16,25; 20:28,29; 23:17,41

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Context

  • Isaiah 57:6

    Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?

  • Isaiah 57:7

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

  • Isaiah 57:8

    Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.

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Isaiah 57:7 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Sobre el monte alto y empinado pusiste tu cama: allí también subiste á hacer sacrificio.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Tu as placé ta couche sur une montagne haute et élevée: là aussi tu es montée pour sacrifier des sacrifices.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Auf einem hohen und erhabenen Berge schlugest du dein Lager auf; auch stiegest du dort hinauf, um Schlachtopfer zu opfern.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Super montem excelsum et sublimem posuisti cubile tuum, et illuc ascendisti ut immolares hostias.