Isaiah 57:5
ContextNET © | you who practice ritual sex 1 under the oaks and every green tree, who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs. 2 |
NIV © | You burn with lust among the oaks and under every spreading tree; you sacrifice your children in the ravines and under the overhanging crags. |
NASB © | Who inflame yourselves among the oaks, Under every luxuriant tree, Who slaughter the children in the ravines, Under the clefts of the crags? |
NLT © | You worship your idols with great passion beneath every green tree. You slaughter your children as human sacrifices down in the valleys, under overhanging rocks. |
MSG © | You satisfy your lust any place you find some shade and fornicate at whim. You kill your children at any convenient spot--any cave or crevasse will do. |
BBE © | You who are burning with evil desire among the oaks, under every green tree; putting children to death in the valleys, under the cracks of the rocks? |
NRSV © | you that burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree; you that slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? |
NKJV © | Inflaming yourselves with gods under every green tree, Slaying the children in the valleys, Under the clefts of the rocks? |
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NET © | you who practice ritual sex 1 under the oaks and every green tree, who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs. 2 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “inflame yourselves”; NRSV “burn with lust.” This verse alludes to the practice of ritual sex that accompanied pagan fertility rites. 2 sn This apparently alludes to the practice of child sacrifice (cf. TEV, CEV, NLT). |