CHAPTER 6
You are to say:
‘O mountains
of Israel,
hear
the word
of the Lord
GOD!
This is what
the Lord
GOD
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 cast down
your slain
before
your idols.
I will lay
the corpses
of the Israelites
before
their idols
and scatter
your bones
around
your altars.
Wherever
you live,
the cities
will be laid waste
and the high places
will be demolished,
so that
your altars
will be laid waste
and desecrated,
your idols
smashed
and obliterated,
your incense altars
cut down,
and your works
blotted out.
Yet I will leave a remnant.
For some of you
will escape
the sword
when you are scattered
among the nations
and throughout the lands.
Then in the nations
to which
they have been carried captive,
your survivors
will remember
Me—
how
I have been grieved
by their adulterous
hearts
that
turned away
from Me,
and by
their eyes
that lusted
after
idols.
So they will loathe
themselves
for
the evil
they have done
and for all
their abominations.
And they will know
that
I
am the LORD;
I did not
declare
in
vain
that I would bring
this
calamity
upon them.
This is what
the Lord
GOD
says:
Clap
your hands,
stomp
your feet,
and cry
“Alas”
for
all
the wicked
abominations
of the house
of Israel,
who
will fall
by sword,
famine,
and plague.
He who is far off
will die
by the plague,
he who is near
will fall
by the sword,
and he who remains
will die
of famine.
So I will vent
My fury
upon them.
Then you will know
that
I
am the LORD,
when their slain
lie
among
their idols
around
their altars,
on
every
high
hill,
on all
the mountaintops,
and under
every
green
tree
and
leafy
oak—
the places
where
they offered
fragrant
incense
to all
their idols.
I will stretch out
My hand
against them,
and wherever
they live
I will make
the land
a desolate
waste,
from the wilderness
to Diblah.
Then they will know
that
I
am the LORD.’”