they set up for themselves pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree;
Micah 5:14 - Revised Standard Version and I will root out your Asherim from among you and destroy your cities. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
they set up for themselves pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree;
to execute on them the judgment written! This is glory for all his faithful ones. Praise the Lord!
You shall tear down their altars, and break their pillars, and cut down their Asherim
they will not have regard for the altars, the work of their hands, and they will not look to what their own fingers have made, either the Asherim or the altars of incense.
Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be expiated, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altars like chalkstones crushed to pieces, no Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, says the Lord.”
The Lord has destroyed without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought down to the ground in dishonor the kingdom and its rulers.
The Lord has given commandment about you: “No more shall your name be perpetuated; from the house of your gods I will cut off the graven image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.”