Jeremiah 3:2

“Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see: where have you not been lain with? By the roads you sat for them like an Arab in the wilderness, and you defiled the land with your prostitutions and with your evil.”

Jeremiah 3:2 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Jeremiah 3:2, word by word

Lift upשְׂאִיsei

lift up

To direct the eyes upward, make the voice loud, or put up the hand.

Where else “sei” appears
your eyesעֵינַיִenayi

eye

The organ with which one sees; so "lift the eyes" means to look.

Where else “enayi” appears
to the bare heightsשְׁפָיִםshefayim

bare height

Bare hill, a height without trees.

Where else “shefayim” appears
and seeרְאִיrei

see

To see with one's eyes.

Where else “rei” appears
whereאֵיפֹהefo

where?

Where? From what place?

Where else “efo” appears
been lain withשֻׁכַּבְתְּshukavt

lie with

To lie with someone, have relations.

Where else “shukavt” appears
By the roadsדְּרָכִיםderachim

road

The track or route by which one goes from one place to another.

Where else “derachim” appears
you satיָשַׁבְתְּyashavt

sit

To sit; or sit on the throne to reign.

Where else “yashavt” appears
like an Arabעֲרָבִיaravi

Arab

Arab: an inhabitant of Arabia, the desert lands south and east of Israel.

Where else “aravi” appears
in the wildernessמִּדְבָּרmidbar

wilderness

Dry, unfarmed land where flocks graze.

Where else “midbar” appears
and you defiledתַּחֲנִיפִיtachanifi

defile

To stain the land with blood or idols.

Where else “tachanifi” appears
the landאֶרֶץerets

land

A region or nation, above all Israel's.

Where else “erets” appears
with your prostitutionsזְנוּתַיִzenutayi

prostitution, unfaithfulness

Prostitution; figuratively, unfaithfulness to God.

Where else “zenutayi” appears
and with your evilרָעָתֵraate

evil

What is evil, the opposite of good.

Where else “raate” appears

Translation note

“Been lain with” is what is read; what is written uses a cruder word.

The context

1Saying, “Look, if a man sends away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s, will he return to her again? Would not that land be utterly defiled? But you have prostituted yourself with many companions; and would you return to me? declares YHWH.

2 · This verse (above)

3And the showers have been withheld, and there has been no late rain; yet the forehead of a prostitute woman you have had; you refused to be ashamed.

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