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Even their children always think about their altars
    where they worship false gods.
They have put up their Asherah poles
    under the big trees and on the high hills.
They also worship their false gods
    on the mountains and in the fields.
So I will cause enemies to take all your valuable things.
    They will take your riches for themselves.
That will be the price that you pay for your sins.
    You have done evil things everywhere in the land.
I gave you this land to be your home for ever.
    But it will no longer belong to you.
Your enemies will take you to a land that you do not know.
    You will be their slaves.
You have made me very angry,
    like a fire that nobody can stop.’

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Even their children remember
    their altars and Asherah poles[a](A)
beside the spreading trees
    and on the high hills.(B)
My mountain in the land
    and your[b] wealth and all your treasures
I will give away as plunder,(C)
    together with your high places,(D)
    because of sin throughout your country.(E)
Through your own fault you will lose
    the inheritance(F) I gave you.
I will enslave you to your enemies(G)
    in a land(H) you do not know,
for you have kindled my anger,
    and it will burn(I) forever.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 17:2 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah
  2. Jeremiah 17:3 Or hills / and the mountains of the land. / Your