Lift up thine eyes unto the high places,.... Where idols were set and worshipped; either places naturally high, as hills and mountains, which were chosen for this service; or high places, artificially made and thrown up for this purpose; see2Ki 17:9, Jarchi interprets the wordMypv of "rivulets of water"; and so the Targum, where also idolatry was committed:and see where thou hast not been lien with; see if there is a hill or mountain, or any high place, where thou hast not committed idolatry; the thing was so notorious, and the facts and instances so many, there was no denying it; every hill and mountain witnessed to their idolatry; to which agrees the Targum,"see where thou hast not joined thyself to worship idols:''in the ways hast thou sat for them; for the idolaters, waiting for them, to join with them in their idolatries; as harlots used to sit by the wayside to meet with their lovers, to be picked up by them, or to offer themselves to them as prostitutes, Ge 38:14 which shows that these people were not drawn into idolatry by the temptations and solicitations of others: but they put themselves in the way of it, and solicited it, and others to join with them in it:as the Arabian in the wilderness; who dwelt in tents in the wilderness, and sat by the wayside to trade with those that passed by; or else lay in wait in desert and by places to rob all that passed by them; and so the Vulgate Latin version renders it,in the ways thou didst sit, expecting them as a thief in the wilderness; the Arabians being noted for thieves and robbers.
The Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, render it,as a crow, or raven, of the desert; the same word signifying a "raven" and an "Arabian": see 1Ki 17:4:and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness; the land of Judea, where idolatry was so openly and frequently committed, which brought a load of guilt upon it, and exposed it to the wrath and judgments of God; so the Targum,"thou hast made the land guilty with thine idols and with thy wickedness.'