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On that day, mankind will look to its maker,
    and its eyes will look to the holy one of Israel;
it will not look to the altars,
    the work of its hands,
and it will not see what its fingers made
    and the poles of Asherah worship and the incense altars.

On that day, its fortified cities[a] will be like the abandonment of the wooded place and the summit,[b] which they deserted because of the children of Israel; and there will be desolation.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 17:9 Literally “the cities of his fortress”
  2. Isaiah 17:9 Perhaps this difficult phrase originally read “abandonment of the wooded heights of the Amorites”