Ezekiel 6

¹ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² Son of man, set thy face against the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them; ³ and thou shalt say,

Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord; thus saith the Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the valleys, and to the forests; Behold, I bring a sword upon you, and your high places shall be utterly destroyed. ⁴ And your altars shall be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. ⁵ And I will scatter your bones round about your altars, ⁶ and in all your habitations: the cities shall be made desolate, and the high places utterly laid waste; that your altars may be destroyed, and your idols be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats be abolished. ⁷ And slain men shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

⁸ When there are some of you escaping from the sword among the Gentiles, and when ye are scattered in the countries; ⁹ then they of you that escape among the nations whither they were carried captive shall remember me (I have sworn an oath against their heart that goeth a-whoring from me, and their eyes that go a-whoring after their practices); and they shall mourn over ^[1]themselves for all their abominations. ¹⁰ ^[2]And they shall know that I the Lord have not said in vain that I would do all this evil to them.

¹¹ Thus saith the Lord; ^[3]Clap with thy hand, and stamp with thy foot and say, ^[4]Aha, aha! for all the abominations of the house of Israel: they shall fall by the sword, and by pestilence, and by famine. ¹² He that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that is far off shall die by the pestilence; and he that is in the siege shall be consumed with famine: and I will accomplish mine anger upon them.

¹³ Then ye shall know that I am the Lord, when your slain are in the midst of your idols round about your altars, on every high hill, and under every shady tree, where they offered a sweet savour to all their idols. ¹⁴ And I will stretch out my hand against them, and I will make the land desolate and ruined from the wilderness of Deblatha, in all their habitations: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

Notes

6:9 themselves for all their abominations: Gr. their faces, or, persons ↩
6:10 And they shall know that I the Lord have not said in vain that I would do all this evil to them: Heb. agrees. Vat. And they shall know that I the Lord have spoken ↩
6:11 Clap with thy hand: or, make a noise ↩
6:11 Aha, aha: see Ps. 34:21 ↩