[1] The word of the LORD came to me: [2] "Son of man, set your face toward
the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, [3] 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.
[4] Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be
broken; and I will cast down your slain before your idols. [5] And I will
lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel before their idols; and I will
scatter your bones round about your altars. [6] Wherever you dwell your
cities shall be waste and your 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. [7] And the slain shall fall in the
midst of you, and you shall know that I am the LORD. [8] "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, [9] then those of
you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried
captive, when I have broken their wanton heart which has departed from me,
and blinded their eyes which turn wantonly after their idols; and they will
be loathsome in their own sight for the evils which they have committed,
for all their abominations. [10] And they shall know that I am the LORD; I
have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them." [11] 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. [12] He that is far off shall die
of pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that is
left and is preserved shall die of famine. Thus I will spend my fury upon
them. [13] And you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie
among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, on all
the mountain tops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak,
wherever they offered pleasing odor to all their idols. [14] And I will
stretch out my hand against them, and make the land desolate and waste,
throughout all their habitations, from the wilderness to Riblah. Then they
will know that I am the LORD."
