¹⁵ For the Lord will strike Israel and the people will shake as a reed shakes in water. He will uproot Israel from this good soil that He gave to their ancestors.^(A) He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates^(B) because they made their Asherah poles, provoking the Lord.^(C)

²³ They also built for themselves high places,^(A) sacred pillars,^(B) and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;