¹⁵ “For the Lord will strike Israel, just as a reed sways in the water; and ^(A)He will uproot Israel from ^(B)this good land which He gave to their fathers, and ^(C)will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, ^(D)because they have made their ^[a]Asherim, provoking the Lord to anger.

²³ For they, too, built for themselves ^(A)high places, ^(B)memorial stones, and ^[a](C)Asherim on every high hill and ^(D)under every luxuriant tree.