Catholic Public Domain Version
"And their sons make a remembrance of their shrines, and their sacred groves, and their leafy trees on high mountains, "
— Jeremiah 17:2, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.”
“whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills. ”
“while their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees on the high hills.”
“Their children are always thinking about their altars and their sacred poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, set up beside the green trees on the high hills”
“When their children shall remember their altars, and their groves, and their green trees upon the high mountains,”
“Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.”
“Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.”
“The sin of Judah has been written with a pen of iron and a point of diamond. It has been engraved upon the breadth of their heart and upon the horns of their shrines.
And their sons make a remembrance of their shrines, and their sacred groves, and their leafy trees on high mountains,
by sacrificing in the field. And so, I will give over your strength and all your treasures to be despoiled, along with your exalted places of sin, within all your borders.
And you will be left behind without your inheritance, which I gave to you. And I will cause you to serve your enemies in a land that you do not know. For you have kindled a fire in my fury; it shall burn, even unto eternity.”
Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is a man who trusts in man, and who establishes what is flesh as his right arm, and whose heart withdraws from the Lord.