2 Your people worship at the altars and the symbols that have been set up for the goddess Asherah by every green tree and on the hilltops
3 and on the mountains in the open country. I will have 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 forever.”
5 The Lord says,“I will condemn thosewho turn away from meand put their trust in human beings,in the strength of mortals.
6 He is like a bush in the desert,which grows in the dry wasteland,on salty ground where nothing else grows.Nothing good ever happens to him.
7 “But I will bless the personwho puts his trust in me.
8 He is like a tree growing near a streamand sending out roots to the water.It is not afraid when hot weather comes,because its leaves stay green;it has no worries when there is no rain;it keeps on bearing fruit.