8 They will not look to the altars they have fashioned with their hands or to the Asherahs and incense altars they have made with their fingers. 9 In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation. 10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines—
Isaiah 17:8–10
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