Ezekiel
6
- The word of the LORD came to me:
- "Son of man, set your face against
the mountains of Israel; prophesy against them
- and say: 'O mountains of Israel, hear the
word of the Sovereign LORD. This is what the Sovereign LORD says to the mountains
and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against
you, and I will destroy your high places.
- Your altars will be demolished and your
incense altars will be smashed; and I will slay your people in front of your
idols.
- I will lay the dead bodies of the Israelites
in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
- Wherever you live, the towns will be laid
waste and the high places demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste
and devastated, your idols smashed and ruined, your incense altars broken
down, and what you have made wiped out.
- Your people will fall slain among you, and
you will know that I am the LORD.
- "'But I will spare some, for some of
you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the lands and nations.
- Then in the nations where they have been
carried captive, those who escape will remember me -- how I have been grieved
by their adulterous hearts, which have turned away from me, and by their eyes,
which have lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves for the evil
they have done and for all their detestable practices.
- And they will know that I am the LORD; I
did not threaten in vain to bring this calamity on them.
- "'This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
Strike your hands together and stamp your feet and cry out "Alas!"
because of all the wicked and detestable practices of the house of Israel,
for they will fall by the sword, famine and plague.
- He that is far away will die of the plague,
and he that is near will fall by the sword, and he that survives and is spared
will die of famine. So will I spend my wrath upon them.
- And they will know that I am the LORD, when
their people lie slain among their idols around their altars, on every high
hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy
oak -- places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
- And I will stretch out my hand against them
and make the land a desolate waste from the desert to Diblah -- wherever they
live. Then they will know that I am the LORD.'"
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