6. Only a few people will survive.They will be like an olive tree that has been beaten.Only two or three olives are leftat the top of the highest branch,four or five olives on the rest of the branches,”declares the Lord God of Israel.
7. When that day comes, they will look to their maker,and their eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.
8. They won’t look to the altars made by their handsor to the Asherah poles or incense altarswhich their fingers molded.
9. When that day comes, the fortified citieswhich other people abandoned because of the Israeliteswill be like abandoned woods and undergrowth.So it will become a wasteland.
10. You have forgotten the God of your salvation.You haven’t remembered the rock, your stronghold.Instead, you have planted the best plantsand have set out the imported grapevines.