## For I broke your yoke that you had in ancient days; I tore your fetters off you. Still you said, “I will not serve!” ##

AT: "Long ago  I released you from slavery, but still you refused to worship me."  (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

## since you bowed down on every high hill and beneath every leafy tree, you adulterer. ##

"You bowed down to idols and worshipped them like an adulterous wife treats her husband." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

## fetters ##

chains used to restrain a person or an animal

## beneath ##

below

## But I myself had planted you as a choice vine, a completely true seed. ##

AT: " I, Yahweh, started you with a very good beginning."  (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

## planted ##

to place in the ground to grow

## a disloyal one from a foreign vine! ##

AT: "you've become like a rotten, worthless vine."

## disloyal ##

traitorous, faithless

## your iniquity is a stain ##

AT: "you are still guilty of sinning" (See:[[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

## stain ##

in this usage stain represents the constant reminder of Israel's sin

## Lord Yahweh’s declaration. ##

See how you translated this in [Jeremiah 1:7](../01/07.md).