and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree:
Micah 5:14 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 and I will pluck up thine Asherim out of the midst of thee: and I will destroy thy cities. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And I will root out your Asherim [symbols of the goddess Asherah] and I will destroy your cities [the seats of false worship]. [Deut. 16:21.] American Standard Version (1901) and I will pluck up thine Asherim out of the midst of thee; and I will destroy thy cities. Common English Bible I will tear down your sacred poles in your midst; I will destroy your cities! Catholic Public Domain Version And I will exact vengeance, in fury and in indignation, among all the nations which have not listened. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I will execute vengeance in wrath and in indignation among all the nations that have not given ear. |
and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree:
To execute vengeance upon the nations, And punishments upon the peoples;
To execute upon them the judgement written: This honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.
but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim:
And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall he have respect to that which his fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.
Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.
But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, saith the LORD.
The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied; he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.
And the LORD hath given commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image; I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.