King James Version (KJV)
Jeremiah 17:2
“Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 17
1
The sin of Judah [is] written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond: [it is] graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
2
Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
3
O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance [and] all thy treasures to the spoil, [and] thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
4
And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, [which] shall burn for ever.
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