1. Jérémie 3:2 (NEG79)
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Why must they lift their eyes to the bare heights?

Jérémie 3:2 (NEG79)

2 Lève tes yeux vers les hauteurs, et regarde! Où ne t'es-tu pas prostituée! Tu te tenais sur les chemins, comme l'Arabe dans le désert, Et tu as souillé le pays par tes prostitutions et par ta méchanceté.

The bare heights is a reference to the many places, normally on hill tops, where the Lord’s people had taken part in the worship of other gods. The Lord is calling on them to consider the overwhelming evidence of their unfaithful behaviour: Where have you not been ravished? The implication of this question is that there seems to be virtually no place in the land where the people have not offered themselves to other gods. As Jeremiah 2:1–37 has made so graphically clear, much of this worship involved sexual immorality. Judah has allowed itself to be ravished by another even while married to the Lord.