[1] The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, [2] Son of man, set your face
toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them, [3] and say, You
mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord
Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the
valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will destroy
your high places. [4] Your altars shall become desolate, and your
sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your
idols. [5] I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before
their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. [6] In
all your dwelling-places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high
places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made
desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your sun-images may
be hewn down, and your works may be abolished. [7] The slain shall fall in
the midst of you, and you shall know that I am Yahweh. [8] Yet will I leave
a remnant, in that you shall have some that escape the sword among the
nations, when you shall be scattered through the countries. [9] Those of
you that escape shall remember me among the nations where they shall be
carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which
has departed from me, and with they eyes, which play the prostitute after
their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the
evils which they have committed in all their abominations. [10] They shall
know that I am Yahweh: I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to
them. [11] Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Smite with your hand, and stamp with
your foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the house
of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence. [12] He who is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he who
is near shall fall by the sword; and he who remains and is besieged shall
die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my wrath on them. [13] You shall
know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men shall be among their idols
round about their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the
mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the
places where they offered sweet savor to all their idols. [14] I will
stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the
wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations: and they shall
know that I am Yahweh.
