The word of the LORD came to me: “Son of man, set your face
toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, and say,
You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says
the Lord GOD to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the
valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will
destroy your high places. Your altars shall become desolate, and
your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your
slain before your idols. And I will lay the dead bodies of the
people of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones
around your altars. Wherever you dwell, the cities shall be waste
and the high places ruined, so that your altars will be waste and
ruined, your idols broken and destroyed, your incense altars cut
down, and your works wiped out. And the slain shall fall in your
midst, and you shall know that I am the LORD.
“Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the
nations some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered
through the countries, then those of you who escape will remember
me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have
been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and
over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be
loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have
committed, for all their abominations. And they shall know that I
am the LORD. I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to
them.”
Thus says the Lord GOD: “Clap your hands and stamp your foot and
say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of
Israel, for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by
pestilence. He who is far off shall die of pestilence, and he who
is near shall fall by the sword, and he who is left and is
preserved shall die of famine. Thus I will spend my fury upon them.
And you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among
their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the
mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak,
wherever they offered pleasing aroma to all their idols. And I will
stretch out my hand against them and make the land desolate and
waste, in all their dwelling places, from the wilderness to Riblah.
Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
