Critics allege a botanical error in this verse based on the translation choice of the tree:
> Isaiah 44:14 He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.

The ash does not grow in West Asia, but a pine, as our modern translations show, is what was intended; it was the translators of the King James Version who selected the ash.