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Is there any place where you have not been ravished? By the roadside you sat waiting for lovers, sat like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness. <a href="/nlt/jeremiah/3.htm">New Living Translation</a> “Look at the shrines on every hilltop. Is there any place you have not been defiled by your adultery with other gods? You sit like a prostitute beside the road waiting for a customer. You sit alone like a nomad in the desert. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and your wickedness. <a href="/esv/jeremiah/3.htm">English Standard Version</a> Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been ravished? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile whoredom. <a href="/bsb/jeremiah/3.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> “Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness. <a href="/kjv/jeremiah/3.htm">King James Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nkjv/jeremiah/3.htm">New King James Version</a> “Lift up your eyes to the desolate heights and see: Where have you not lain with men? By the road you have sat for them Like an Arabian in the wilderness; And you have polluted the land With your harlotries and your wickedness. <a href="/nasb_/jeremiah/3.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> “Raise your eyes to the bare heights and see; Where have you not been violated? You have sat for them by the roads Like an Arab in the desert, And you have defiled a land With your prostitution and your wickedness. <a href="/nasb/jeremiah/3.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see; Where have you not been violated? By the roads you have sat for them Like an Arab in the desert, And you have polluted a land With your harlotry and with your wickedness. <a href="/nasb77/jeremiah/3.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see; Where have you not been violated? By the roads you have sat for them Like an Arab in the desert, And you have polluted a land With your harlotry and with your wickedness. <a href="/lsb/jeremiah/3.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> “Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see; Where have you not been ravished? By the roads you have sat for them Like an Arab in the wilderness, And you have polluted a land With your harlotry and with your evil. <a href="/amp/jeremiah/3.htm">Amplified Bible</a> “Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see; Where have you not been violated? You sat by the road waiting [eagerly] for them [those man-made gods] Like an Arab [tribesman who waits to attack] in the desert, And you have desecrated the land With your [vile] prostitution and your wickedness (disobedience to God). <a href="/csb/jeremiah/3.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Look to the barren heights and see. Where have you not been immoral? You sat waiting for them beside the highways like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness. <a href="/hcsb/jeremiah/3.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Look to the barren heights and see. Where have you not been immoral? You sat waiting for them beside the highways like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness. <a href="/asv/jeremiah/3.htm">American Standard Version</a> Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness. <a href="/cev/jeremiah/3.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Just try to find one hilltop where you haven't gone to worship other gods by having sex. You sat beside the road like a robber in ambush, except you offered yourself to every passerby. Your sins of unfaithfulness have polluted the land. <a href="/erv/jeremiah/3.htm">English Revised Version</a> Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness. <a href="/gwt/jeremiah/3.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> "Look at the bare hills, and see. You have had sex with men in every place. You sat by the roadside waiting for them like a nomad in the desert. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and wickedness. <a href="/gnt/jeremiah/3.htm">Good News Translation</a> Look up at the hilltops. Is there any place where you have not acted like a prostitute? You waited for lovers along the roadside, as an Arab waits for victims in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution. <a href="/isv/jeremiah/3.htm">International Standard Version</a> "Look up to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been ravished? You have sat beside the road, waiting for them like a nomad in the desert. And you have polluted the land with your fornication and your wickedness. <a href="/net/jeremiah/3.htm">NET Bible</a> "Look up at the hilltops and consider this. You have had sex with other gods on every one of them. You waited for those gods like a thief lying in wait in the desert. You defiled the land by your wicked prostitution to other gods. <a href="/nheb/jeremiah/3.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> "Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see. Where have you not been lain with? You have sat for them by the ways, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness. <a href="/wbt/jeremiah/3.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Lift up thy eyes to the high places, and see where thou hast not been lain with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy acts of lewdness, and with thy wickedness.<div class="vheading2">Majority Text Translations</div><a href="/msb/jeremiah/3.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> “Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness. <a href="/web/jeremiah/3.htm">World English Bible</a> “Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat waiting for them by the road, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/jeremiah/3.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> “Lift your eyes to the high places, and see, "" Where have you not been lain with? You have sat for them on the ways, "" As an Arab in a wilderness, "" And you defile the land, "" By your fornications, and by your wickedness. <a href="/ylt/jeremiah/3.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> Lift thine eyes to the high places, and see, Where hast thou not been lain with? On the ways thou hast sat for them, As an Arab in a wilderness, And thou defilest the land, By thy fornications, and by thy wickedness. <a href="/slt/jeremiah/3.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> Lift up thine eyes upon the naked hills and see where thou wert not lain with. Upon the ways thou didst sit for them as the ravens in the desert; and thou wilt defile the land with thy fornications and with thine evil.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/jeremiah/3.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Lift up thy eyes on high: and see where thou hast not prostuted thyself: Thou didst sit in the ways, waiting for them as a robber in the wilderness: and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications, and with thy wickedness. <a href="/cpdv/jeremiah/3.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> Lift your eyes straight up, and see where you did not debase yourself. You were sitting in the roadways, waiting for them, like a robber in the wilderness. And you have polluted the land by your fornications and by your wickedness. <a href="/nabre/jeremiah/3.htm">New American Bible</a> Raise your eyes to the heights, and look, where have men not lain with you? Along the roadways you waited for them like an Arabian in the wilderness. You defiled the land by your wicked prostitution. <a href="/nrsvce/jeremiah/3.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Look up to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? By the waysides you have sat waiting for lovers, like a nomad in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your whoring and wickedness.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/jeremiah/3.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Lift up your eyes to the highways, and see if there is a place where you have not defiled yourself. In the roads you have sat waiting for them, like an ostrich in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your whoredom. <a href="/hpbt/jeremiah/3.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> Lift up your eyes on the streets and see where you have not defiled yourselves on the streets. You sat on them like a raven in the wilderness, and you defiled the land with your prostitution and with your evil<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/jeremiah/3.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> Lift up thine eyes unto the high hills, and see: Where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, As an Arabian in the wilderness; And thou hast polluted the land With thy harlotries and with thy wickedness. <a href="/sep/jeremiah/3.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> Lift up thine eyes to look straight forward, and see where thou hast not been utterly defiled. Thou hast sat for them by the wayside as a deserted crow, and hast defiled the land with thy fornications and thy wickedness. <a href="/parallel/jeremiah/3-2.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5k55c51ZGhs?start=668" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/3.htm">The Wages of the Harlot</a> 1“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD. 2<a href="/hebrew/5375.htm" title="5375: śə·’î- (V-Qal-Imp-fs) -- Or nacah ('abad); a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. And rel.">“Lift up</a> <a href="/hebrew/5869.htm" title="5869: ‘ê·na·yiḵ (N-cdc:: 2fs) -- An eye. Probably a primitive word; an eye; by analogy, a fountain.">your eyes</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">to</a> <a href="/hebrew/8205.htm" title="8205: šə·p̄ā·yim (N-mp) -- Bareness, a smooth or bare height. From shaphah; bareness; concretely, a bare hill or plain.">the barren heights</a> <a href="/hebrew/7200.htm" title="7200: ū·rə·’î (Conj-w:: V-Qal-Imp-fs) -- To see. A primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively.">and see.</a> <a href="/hebrew/375.htm" title="375: ’ê·p̄ōh (Interrog) -- Where?. From 'ay and poh; what place?; also when?; or how?.">Is there any place where</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">you have not</a> <a href="/hebrew/7693.htm" title="7693: šug·galt (V-Pual-Perf-2fs) -- To violate, ravish. A primitive root; to copulate with.">been violated?</a> <a href="/hebrew/3427.htm" title="3427: yā·šaḇt (V-Qal-Perf-2fs) -- A primitive root; properly, to sit down; by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry.">You sat</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">beside</a> <a href="/hebrew/1870.htm" title="1870: də·rā·ḵîm (N-cp) -- Way, road, distance, journey, manner. From darak; a road; figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb.">the highways</a> <a href="/hebrew/lā·hem (Prep:: 3mp) -- ">waiting for your lovers,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6163.htm" title="6163: ka·‘ă·rā·ḇî (Prep-k:: N-proper-ms) -- Arabian -- inhabitant of Arabia. Or marbiy; patrial from Arab; an Arabian or inhabitant of Arab.">like a nomad</a> <a href="/hebrew/4057.htm" title="4057: bam·miḏ·bār (Prep-b, Art:: N-ms) -- A pasture, a desert, speech. From dabar in the sense of driving; a pasture; by implication, a desert; also speech.">in the desert.</a> <a href="/hebrew/2610.htm" title="2610: wat·ta·ḥă·nî·p̄î (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConsecImperf-2fs) -- To be polluted or profane. A primitive root; to soil, especially in a moral sense.">You have defiled</a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: ’e·reṣ (N-fs) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">the land</a> <a href="/hebrew/2184.htm" title="2184: biz·nū·ṯa·yiḵ (Prep-b:: N-fpc:: 2fs) -- Fornication. From zanah; adultery, i.e. infidelity, idolatry.">with your prostitution</a> <a href="/hebrew/7451.htm" title="7451: ū·ḇə·rā·‘ā·ṯêḵ (Conj-w, Prep-b:: N-fsc:: 2fs) -- Bad, evil. From ra'a'; bad or evil.">and wickedness.</a> 3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/hosea/4-13.htm">Hosea 4:13</a> They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery. <a href="/ezekiel/16-25.htm">Ezekiel 16:25</a> At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by. <a href="/isaiah/57-7.htm">Isaiah 57:7-8</a> On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices. / Behind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; you climbed up and opened it wide. And you have made a pact with those whose bed you have loved; you have gazed upon their nakedness. <a href="/deuteronomy/12-2.htm">Deuteronomy 12:2</a> Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree. <a href="/2_kings/17-10.htm">2 Kings 17:10</a> They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. <a href="/ezekiel/23-3.htm">Ezekiel 23:3</a> and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed. <a href="/hosea/2-5.htm">Hosea 2:5</a> For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’ <a href="/isaiah/1-21.htm">Isaiah 1:21</a> See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers! <a href="/ezekiel/6-13.htm">Ezekiel 6:13</a> Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols. <a href="/hosea/9-1.htm">Hosea 9:1</a> Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor. <a href="/matthew/5-32.htm">Matthew 5:32</a> But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, brings adultery upon her. And he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery. <a href="/james/4-4.htm">James 4:4</a> You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God. <a href="/revelation/17-1.htm">Revelation 17:1-2</a> Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. / The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.” <a href="/1_corinthians/6-15.htm">1 Corinthians 6:15-16</a> Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! / Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” <a href="/romans/1-24.htm">Romans 1:24-25</a> Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. / They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Lift up your eyes to the high places, and see where you have not been lien with. In the ways have you sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your prostitutions and with your wickedness.lift<a href="/jeremiah/2-23.htm">Jeremiah 2:23</a> How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;<a href="/ezekiel/8-4.htm">Ezekiel 8:4-6</a> And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain… <a href="/luke/16-23.htm">Luke 16:23</a> And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.unto<a href="/jeremiah/2-20.htm">Jeremiah 2:20</a> 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.<a href="/deuteronomy/12-2.htm">Deuteronomy 12:2</a> Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:<a href="/1_kings/11-3.htm">1 Kings 11:3</a> And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.in the<a href="/genesis/38-14.htm">Genesis 38:14</a> And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.<a href="/proverbs/7-11.htm">Proverbs 7:11</a> (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:<a href="/proverbs/23-28.htm">Proverbs 23:28</a> She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.thou hast<a href="/jeremiah/3-1.htm">Jeremiah 3:1,9</a> They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD… <a href="/jeremiah/2-7.htm">Jeremiah 2:7</a> And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/64-6.htm">Acts</a> <a href="/isaiah/13-20.htm">Arab</a> <a href="/isaiah/13-20.htm">Arabian</a> <a href="/jude/1-21.htm">Awaiting</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-25.htm">Bare</a> <a href="/isaiah/54-1.htm">Barren</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-24.htm">Desert</a> <a href="/isaiah/66-4.htm">Eyes</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-22.htm">Harlotries</a> <a href="/isaiah/58-14.htm">Heights</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-20.htm">High</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-7.htm">Hills</a> <a href="/isaiah/40-4.htm">Hilltops</a> <a href="/judges/20-6.htm">Lewdness</a> <a href="/isaiah/62-10.htm">Lift</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-31.htm">Loose</a> <a href="/isaiah/64-1.htm">Open</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-4.htm">Places</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-1.htm">Polluted</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-22.htm">Prostitution</a> <a href="/isaiah/13-16.htm">Ravished</a> <a href="/isaiah/59-8.htm">Roads</a> <a href="/job/31-32.htm">Roadside</a> <a href="/isaiah/16-5.htm">Sat</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-4.htm">Seated</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-23.htm">Unclean</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-36.htm">Vile</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-5.htm">Violated</a> <a href="/isaiah/64-3.htm">Waiting</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-24.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-36.htm">Ways</a> <a href="/psalms/140-5.htm">Wayside</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/21-13.htm">Whoredoms</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-33.htm">Wickedness</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-31.htm">Wilderness</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/13-27.htm">Acts</a> <a href="/joshua/15-52.htm">Arab</a> <a href="/nehemiah/2-19.htm">Arabian</a> <a href="/luke/1-21.htm">Awaiting</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-21.htm">Bare</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-21.htm">Barren</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-11.htm">Desert</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-30.htm">Eyes</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-27.htm">Harlotries</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-21.htm">Heights</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-6.htm">High</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-21.htm">Hills</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-21.htm">Hilltops</a> <a href="/jeremiah/11-15.htm">Lewdness</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-6.htm">Lift</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-7.htm">Loose</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-21.htm">Open</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-21.htm">Places</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-9.htm">Polluted</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-9.htm">Prostitution</a> <a href="/lamentations/5-11.htm">Ravished</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-16.htm">Roads</a> <a href="/matthew/13-4.htm">Roadside</a> <a href="/jeremiah/15-17.htm">Sat</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-18.htm">Seated</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-9.htm">Unclean</a> <a href="/jeremiah/11-15.htm">Vile</a> <a href="/jeremiah/34-18.htm">Violated</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-6.htm">Waiting</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-7.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-13.htm">Ways</a> <a href="/hosea/13-7.htm">Wayside</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-15.htm">Whoredoms</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-14.htm">Wickedness</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-11.htm">Wilderness</a><div class="vheading2">Jeremiah 3</div>1. <a href="/jeremiah/3-1.htm">God's great mercy to Judah the polluted land</a> 6. <a href="/jeremiah/3-6.htm">Judah is worse than Israel</a> 12. <a href="/jeremiah/3-12.htm">The promises of the gospel to the penitent</a> 20. <a href="/jeremiah/3-20.htm">Israel reproved, and called by God, makes a solemn confession of their sins</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The "barren heights" refer to the high places where idolatrous worship often occurred in ancient Israel. These locations were typically elevated areas where altars to foreign gods were erected. The call to "lift up your eyes" is an invitation to recognize the spiritual desolation and unfaithfulness of the people. In biblical context, the high places were frequently condemned by prophets as sites of apostasy (<a href="/1_kings/14-23.htm">1 Kings 14:23</a>, <a href="/2_kings/17-10.htm">2 Kings 17:10-11</a>).Is there any place where you have not been violated? This rhetorical question underscores the pervasive nature of Israel's unfaithfulness. The term "violated" suggests spiritual adultery, as Israel is often depicted as the unfaithful spouse of God (Hosea 1-3). The imagery implies that idolatry has permeated every part of the land, leaving no place untouched by sin.You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, This phrase paints a picture of Israel actively seeking out alliances and relationships with foreign nations and their gods, akin to a prostitute waiting for clients. The highways symbolize the paths of trade and communication, indicating that Israel's unfaithfulness was not hidden but public and deliberate. This behavior is reminiscent of the warnings against forming alliances with pagan nations (<a href="/deuteronomy/7.htm">Deuteronomy 7:1-4</a>).like a nomad in the desert. The comparison to a nomad suggests restlessness and a lack of spiritual home or stability. Nomads in the ancient Near East were often seen as outsiders, and this imagery highlights Israel's estrangement from God. The desert is a place of barrenness and desolation, symbolizing the spiritual emptiness resulting from Israel's idolatry.You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness. The land, which was meant to be holy and set apart for God, has been polluted by Israel's actions. "Prostitution" here is a metaphor for idolatry, and "wickedness" encompasses the broader moral and ethical corruption that accompanies turning away from God. This defilement of the land is a recurring theme in the prophets, who often link the people's sin with the land's suffering (<a href="/leviticus/18-24.htm">Leviticus 18:24-28</a>, <a href="/isaiah/24-5.htm">Isaiah 24:5</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/j/jeremiah.htm">Jeremiah</a> A prophet called by God to deliver messages of warning and hope to the people of Judah. His ministry spanned the reigns of several kings and was marked by themes of repentance and restoration. 2. <a href="/topical/b/barren_heights.htm">Barren Heights</a> High places often used for idol worship in ancient Israel. These locations were significant in the context of Israel's spiritual adultery and idolatry. 3. <a href="/topical/h/highways.htm">Highways</a> Symbolic of the paths taken by the Israelites in their pursuit of foreign alliances and idolatrous practices, representing their unfaithfulness to God. 4. <a href="/topical/n/nomad_in_the_desert.htm">Nomad in the Desert</a> A metaphor for Israel's restless and unfaithful pursuit of other gods, akin to a wanderer without a home or anchor. 5. <a href="/topical/p/prostitution_and_wickedness.htm">Prostitution and Wickedness</a> Metaphors for Israel's spiritual unfaithfulness and idolatry, which defiled the land and broke their covenant with God.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_adultery.htm">Spiritual Adultery</a> Just as Israel was unfaithful to God by pursuing idols, Christians today must guard against allowing anything to take the place of God in their hearts. <a href="/topical/c/consequences_of_unfaithfulness.htm">Consequences of Unfaithfulness</a> The defilement of the land serves as a reminder that sin has consequences, not only for individuals but for communities and nations. <a href="/topical/c/call_to_repentance.htm">Call to Repentance</a> Jeremiah's message is ultimately one of repentance. Believers are called to examine their lives, turn away from sin, and return to God. <a href="/topical/v/vigilance_against_idolatry.htm">Vigilance Against Idolatry</a> Modern idolatry may not involve physical idols, but anything that takes precedence over God in our lives can become an idol. <a href="/topical/g/god's_faithfulness.htm">God's Faithfulness</a> Despite Israel's unfaithfulness, God remains faithful and offers forgiveness and restoration to those who repent.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_jeremiah_3.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Jeremiah 3</a> <a href="/q/why_does_jer._3_2_say_idolatry_'polluted'.htm">Why does Jeremiah 3:2 claim the land is “polluted” by idolatry when archaeological records provide no definitive evidence of such ecological devastation? </a> <a href="/q/how_does_jer._3_12-14_show_limitless_mercy.htm">How does Jeremiah 3:12-14 depict limitless mercy when texts like 2 Kings 17:6-23 suggest God's patience eventually ran out?</a> <a href="/q/why_did_god_say_zedekiah_won't_die_by_sword.htm">Jeremiah 34:3 - How could God promise Zedekiah would not die by the sword if 2 Kings 25:7 says Nebuchadnezzar blinded him and took him captive?</a> <a href="/q/evidence_for_drought_in_jeremiah_14_1-6.htm">Jeremiah 14:1-6: Does any historical or archeological evidence confirm or challenge the account of a severe drought at that time?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/jeremiah/3.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(2) Lift up thine eyes.--The consciousness of guilt was, however, the only foundation of repentance, and the prophet's work, therefore, in very tenderness, is to paint that guilt in the darkest colours possible. Still keeping to the parable of the faithless wife, he bids Israel, as such, to look to the "high places" that have witnessed her adulteries with those other lords for whom she had forsaken Jehovah. Like the harlots of the east, she had sat by the wayside, as Tamar had done (<a href="/genesis/38-14.htm" title="And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given to him to wife.">Genesis 38:14</a>; comp. also <a href="/proverbs/7-12.htm" title="Now is she without, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.)">Proverbs 7:12</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/16-31.htm" title="In that you build your eminent place in the head of every way, and make your high place in every street; and have not been as an harlot, in that you scorn hire;">Ezekiel 16:31</a>), not so much courted by her paramours as courting them.As the Arabian in the wilderness.--The Arabian is chosen as the representative of the lawless predatory tribes of the desert. As they, like the modern Bedouins, lay in ambush, waiting eagerly for their victims, so had the harlot Israel laid wait for her lovers, and so the land had been polluted.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/jeremiah/3.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 2. - Lift up thine eyes, etc. No superficial reformation can be called "returning to Jehovah." The prophet, therefore, holds up the mirror to the sinful practices which a sincere repentance must extinguish. The high places; rather, the bare hills (comp. on Jeremiah 2:20). In the ways hast thou sat for them. By the roadside (comp. <a href="/genesis/38-14.htm">Genesis 38:14</a>; <a href="/proverbs/7-12.htm">Proverbs 7:12</a>). As the Arabian in the wilderness. So early was the reputation of the Bedouin already won (comp. <a href="/judges/6.htm">Judges 6</a>.). Jerome ad loc. remarks, "Quae gens latrociniis dedita usque hodie incursat terminos Palaestinae." <a href="/commentaries/jeremiah/3-2.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>“Lift up שְׂאִֽי־ (śə·’î-) Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5375.htm">Strong's 5375: </a> To lift, carry, take your eyes עֵינַ֨יִךְ (‘ê·na·yiḵ) Noun - cdc | second person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5869.htm">Strong's 5869: </a> An eye, a fountain to עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against the barren heights שְׁפָיִ֜ם (šə·p̄ā·yim) Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8205.htm">Strong's 8205: </a> Bareness, a smooth or bare height and see. וּרְאִ֗י (ū·rə·’î) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7200.htm">Strong's 7200: </a> To see Is there any place where אֵיפֹה֙ (’ê·p̄ōh) Interrogative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_375.htm">Strong's 375: </a> What place?, when?, how? you have not לֹ֣א (lō) Adverb - Negative particle <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> Not, no been violated? שֻׁכַּ֔בְתְּ (šuk·kab·bət) Verb - Pual - Perfect - second person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7693.htm">Strong's 7693: </a> To violate, ravish You sat waiting יָשַׁ֣בְתְּ (yā·šaḇt) Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3427.htm">Strong's 3427: </a> To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry for [your lovers] לָהֶ֔ם (lā·hem) Preposition | third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> beside עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against the highways, דְּרָכִים֙ (də·rā·ḵîm) Noun - common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1870.htm">Strong's 1870: </a> A road, a course of life, mode of action like a nomad כַּעֲרָבִ֖י (ka·‘ă·rā·ḇî) Preposition-k | Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6163.htm">Strong's 6163: </a> Arabian -- inhabitant of Arabia in the desert. בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר (bam·miḏ·bār) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4057.htm">Strong's 4057: </a> A pasture, a desert, speech You have defiled וַתַּחֲנִ֣יפִי (wat·ta·ḥă·nî·p̄î) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - second person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2610.htm">Strong's 2610: </a> To be polluted or profane the land אֶ֔רֶץ (’e·reṣ) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> Earth, land with your prostitution בִּזְנוּתַ֖יִךְ (biz·nū·ṯa·yiḵ) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct | second person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2184.htm">Strong's 2184: </a> Adultery, infidelity, idolatry and wickedness. וּבְרָעָתֵֽךְ׃ (ū·ḇə·rā·‘ā·ṯêḵ) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7451.htm">Strong's 7451: </a> Bad, evil <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/3-2.htm">Jeremiah 3:2 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/jeremiah/3-2.htm">Jeremiah 3:2 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/jeremiah/3-2.htm">Jeremiah 3:2 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/jeremiah/3-2.htm">Jeremiah 3:2 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/jeremiah/3-2.htm">Jeremiah 3:2 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/3-2.htm">Jeremiah 3:2 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/3-2.htm">Jeremiah 3:2 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/3-2.htm">Jeremiah 3:2 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/jeremiah/3-2.htm">Jeremiah 3:2 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/jeremiah/3-2.htm">Jeremiah 3:2 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-2.htm">OT Prophets: Jeremiah 3:2 Lift up your eyes to the bare (Jer.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/jeremiah/3-1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 3:1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 3:1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/jeremiah/3-3.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 3:3"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 3:3" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>