8He will not have regard for the altars, the work of his hands,
         Nor will he look to that which his fingers have made,
         Even the Asherim and incense stands.

9In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken places in the forest,
         Or like branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel;
         And the land will be a desolation.

10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation
         And have not remembered the rock of your refuge.
         Therefore you plant delightful plants
         And set them with vine slips of a strange god.

11In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,
         And in the morning you bring your seed to blossom;
         But the harvest will be a heap
         In a day of sickliness and incurable pain.

12Alas, the uproar of many peoples
         Who roar like the roaring of the seas,
         And the rumbling of nations
         Who rush on like the rumbling of mighty waters!

13The nations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters,
         But He will rebuke them and they will flee far away,
         And be chased like chaff in the mountains before the wind,
         Or like whirling dust before a gale.

14At evening time, behold, there is terror!
         Before morning they are no more.
         Such will be the portion of those who plunder us
         And the lot of those who pillage us.

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