Isaiah 57:8

"On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed. You also went up there to offer sacrifice."

Key Reflection

This verse depicts the people setting their beds on a high mountain, symbolizing their worship practices that are both public and scandalous. It suggests that their religious rituals, intended as offerings to God, have instead become an act of self-indulgence, losing their sacred purpose.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Behind the doors -In every part of their habitations - behind the doors and posts and beams of their houses, they had erected the memorials of idolatrous worship. Hast thou set up thy remembrance -That is, they had filled their houses with the images of tutelary gods, or with something dedicated to them. The Greeks and Romans had their Lares and Penates - their household or domestic gods - the images of which were in every family. The same was true of the apostate Hebrews. They had filled their houses with the memorials of idol-worship, and there was no part of their dwellings in which such memorials were not to be found.

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