Ezekiel 6
1 The word of the LORD came to me:
2 “Son of man, turn your face toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.
3 Say: ‘Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, the ravines and valleys: «I am about to bring the sword against you and destroy your shrines on the mountains.
4 Your altars will be laid waste, and your incense altars will be broken; I will make your dead fall before your repulsive images.
5 I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their repulsive images, and scatter your bones around your altars.
6 Everywhere you live, the cities will lie in ruins and the shrines on the mountains will be laid waste, so that your altars lie in ruins and bear the guilt; your repulsive images will be broken and wiped out, your incense altars will be torn down, and your works will be erased.
7 The dead will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.
8 But I will leave a remnant: some of you will escape the sword among the nations when you are scattered through the lands.
9 Those who escape will remember me among the nations where they have been taken captive, when I break their adulterous hearts, which turned away from me, and their eyes, which prostituted themselves after their repulsive images. They will loathe themselves for the evils they have done, for all their abominations.
10 And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not speak in vain when I said I would bring this calamity on them.»’”
11 This is what the Lord GOD says: “Clap your hands, stamp your feet, and cry, ‘Alas!’ because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine, and plague.
12 Those far away will die of plague, those nearby will fall by the sword, and those who remain and are under siege will die of famine. In this way I will pour out my fury on them.
13 And you will know that I am the LORD when their dead lie among their repulsive images, around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountain peaks, beneath every green tree and every leafy oak, in the places where they offered a pleasing aroma to all their repulsive images.
14 I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land desolate and deserted, from the wilderness to Diblah, everywhere they live; and they will know that I am the LORD.”
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