Yechezkel - Chapter 6

1. The word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2. "Son of man, direct your face toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy to them.

3. And you shall say; 'O mountains of Israel, hearken to the word of the Lord God. So said the Lord God to the mountains and to the hills, to the rivulets and to the valleys: Behold I bring upon you the sword, and I shall destroy your high places.

4. And your altars will become desolate, and your sun gods will be broken, and I shall cast your slain ones before your idols.

5. And I shall lay the corpses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I shall scatter your bones around your altars.

6. In all your dwelling places, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will become desolate, in order that your altars be laid waste and shown to be guilty, and your idols will be broken and abolished and your sun gods will be cut down, and your works will be obliterated.

7. And the slain will fall in your midst, and you will know that I am the Lord.

8. But I shall leave a remnant insofar as you will have people among the nations who will escape the sword, when you are scattered in the lands.

9. And those of you that escape will remember Me among the nations where they were captured, that I yielded to their straying heart which turned away from Me and to their eyes that strayed after their idols, and they will quarrel with themselves about the evils that they did in addition to all their abominations.

10. And they will know that I am the Lord; not for naught have I spoken to do this evil to them.

11. So said the Lord God: Strike with your hand and stamp with your foot, and say, "Ah!" about all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by the sword, through famine, and through pestilence.

12. The one who is far away will die of the pestilence, and the one who is near will fall by the sword, and the one who survives and who is in the siege, will die of hunger, and I shall spend My fury on them.

13. And you will know that I am the Lord when their slain ones will be among their idols, around their altars, upon every hill of height, on all mountaintops and under every leafy tree and under every branchy terebinth, a place where they offered up a satisfying savor to all their idols.

14. I shall extend My hand upon them, and I shall make the land a desolation and an astonishment -[starting] from the desert of Diblah-in all their dwelling places, and they shall know that I am the Lord.' "