The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars. They will tell the mountains, "Cover us!" and the hills, "Fall on us!"
The thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars — Owing to the uncultivated and unfrequented state of the land, and of their places of idol worship, the people being all carried away into captivity. 