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.
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