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29 You will be sorry that you ever worshiped trees and planted sacred gardens.[a] 30 You will wither like a dying oak, like a garden that no one waters. 31 Just as straw is set on fire by a spark, so powerful people will be destroyed by their own evil deeds, and no one will be able to stop the destruction.

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  1. Isaiah 1:29 People believed that dedicating a garden to a fertility god would cause him to bless their crops.

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