¹⁵ For the Lord will strike Israel so that they will^[a] 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, angering 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;