8. They will not look to the altars they made with their hands or to the Asherahs and incense altars they made with their fingers.
9. On that day their strong cities will belike the abandoned woods and mountaintops that were abandoned because of the Israelites;there will be desolation.
10. For you have forgotten the God of your salvation,and you have failed to rememberthe rock of your strength; therefore you will plant beautiful plantsand set out cuttings from exotic vines.
11. On the day that you plant,you will help them to grow,and in the morningyou will help your seed to sprout,but the harvest will vanishon the day of disease and incurable pain.
12. Ah! The roar of many peoples —they roar like the roaring of the seas.The raging of the nations —they rage like the raging of mighty waters.
13. The nations rage like the raging of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills and like tumbleweeds before a gale.
14. In the evening — sudden terror!Before morning — it is gone!This is the fate of those who plunder usand the lot of those who ravage us.