Isaiah 1:29
Good News Translation
You will be sorry that you ever worshiped trees and planted sacred gardens.

New Revised Standard Version
For you shall be ashamed of the oaks in which you delighted; and you shall blush for the gardens that you have chosen.

Contemporary English Version
You will be made ashamed of those groves of trees where you worshiped idols.

New American Bible
You shall be ashamed of the terebinths which you desired, and blush on account of the gardens which you chose.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens which you have chosen.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens which you have chosen.

ashamed

Isaiah 30:22 And thou shalt defile the plates of thy graven things of silver, and the garment of thy molten things of gold, and shalt cast them away as the uncleanness of a menstruous woman. Thou shalt say to it: Get thee hence.

Isaiah 31:7 For in that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your hands have made for you to sin.

Isaiah 45:16 They are all confounded and ashamed: the forgers of errors are gone together into confusion.

Ezekiel 16:63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and mayest no more open thy mouth because of thy confusion, when I shall be pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.

Ezekiel 36:31 And you shall remember your wicked ways, and your doings that were not good: and your iniquities, and your wicked deeds shall displease you.

Hosea 14:3,8 Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more: The works of our hands are our gods: for thou wilt have mercy on the fatherless that is in thee. . . .

Romans 6:21 What fruit therefore had you then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.

the oaks

Isaiah 57:5 Who seek your comfort in idols under every green tree, sacrificing children in the torrents, under the high rocks?

Ezekiel 6:13 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when your slain shall be amongst your idols, round about your altars, in every high hill, and on all the tops of mountains, and under every woody tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they burnt sweet smelling frankincense to all their idols.

Hosea 4:13 They offered sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burnt incense upon the hills: under the oak, and the poplar, and the turpentine tree, because the shadow thereof was good: therefore shall your daughters commit fornication, and your spouses shall be adulteresses.

the gardens

Isaiah 65:3 A people that continually provoke me to anger before my face, that immolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks.

Isaiah 66:17 They that were sanctified, thought themselves clean in the gardens behind the gate within, they that did eat swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse: they shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 2:20 Of old time thou hast broken my yoke, thou hast burst my bands, and thou saidst: I will not serve. For on every high hill, and under every green tree thou didst prostitute thyself.

Jeremiah 3:6 And the Lord said to me in the days of king Josias: Hast thou seen what rebellious Israel hath done? she hath gone of herself upon every high mountain, and under every green tree, and hath played the harlot there.

Context
The Corruption of Zion
28And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and they that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed. 29For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens which you have chosen.30When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling off, and as a garden without water.…
Cross References
Isaiah 42:17
They are turned back: let them be greatly confounded, that trust in a graven thing, that say to a molten thing: You are our god.

Isaiah 57:5
Who seek your comfort in idols under every green tree, sacrificing children in the torrents, under the high rocks?

Isaiah 65:3
A people that continually provoke me to anger before my face, that immolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks.

Isaiah 66:17
They that were sanctified, thought themselves clean in the gardens behind the gate within, they that did eat swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse: they shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.

Hosea 4:13
They offered sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burnt incense upon the hills: under the oak, and the poplar, and the turpentine tree, because the shadow thereof was good: therefore shall your daughters commit fornication, and your spouses shall be adulteresses.

Isaiah 1:28
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