2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
2 while their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree and on the high hills,
2 The evidence against them is plain to see: sex-and-religion altars and sacred sex shrines Anywhere there's a grove of trees, anywhere there's an available hill.
2 While their children remember Their altars and their wooden images By the green trees on the high hills.
2 Even their children go to worship at their pagan altars and Asherah poles, beneath every green tree and on every high hill.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Jeremiah 17:2
Commentary on Jeremiah 17:1-4
(Read Jeremiah 17:1-4)
The sins which men commit make little impression on their minds, yet every sin is marked in the book of God; they are all so graven upon the table of the heart, that they will all be remembered by the conscience. That which is graven in the heart will become plain in the life; men's actions show the desires and purposes of their hearts. What need we have to humble ourselves before God, who are so vile in his sight! How should we depend on his mercy and grace, begging of God to search and prove us; not to suffer us to be deceived by our own hearts, but to create in us a clean and holy nature by his Spirit!