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.
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Gill's Exposition
Lift up thine eyes unto the high places,.... Where idols were set and worshipped; either places naturally high, as hills and mountains, which were chosen for this service; or high places, artificially…
Barnes' Notes
These words are not the language of consolation to the conscience-stricken, but of vehement expostulation with hardened sinners. They prove, therefore, the truth of the interpretation put upon the…
These verses some make to belong to the sermon in the foregoing chapter, and they open a door of hope to those who receive the conviction of the reproofs we had there; God wounds that he may heal. Now…
Cambridge Bible
Israel is shameless and wholly given up to idolatrous excesses.
bare heights a favourite word in this Book (Jer 3:3; Jer 4:11 etc.).
an Arabian in the wilderness lit. steppe-dwellers (of N. Arabia).…
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