2 Your people worship at the altars and the symbols that have been set up for the goddess Asherah by every green tree, on the hilltops
3 and on the mountains in the open country. I will make your enemies take away your wealth and your treasures because of all the sins you have committed throughout your land.
4 You will have to give up the land I gave you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land you know nothing about, because my anger is like a fire, and it will burn for ever.”
5 The Lord says,“I will condemn thosewho turn away from meand put their trust in human beings,in the strength of mortals.
6 They are like bushes in the desert,which grow in the dry wilderness,on salty ground where nothing else grows.Nothing good ever happens to them.
7 “But I will bless thosewho put their trust in me.
8 They are like trees growing near a streamand sending out roots to the water.They are not afraid when hot weather comes,because their leaves stay green;they have no worries when there is no rain;they keep on bearing fruit.