Ezekiel 6
1 And the word of the Lord came to me,
saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face
against the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them;
3 and thou shalt say,
Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord; thus saith the Lord to the
mountains, and to the hills, and to the valleys, and to the forests; Behold, I
bring a sword upon you, and your high places shall be utterly destroyed.
4 And your altars shall be broken to
pieces, and your consecrated plats; and I will cast down your slain
men before your idols.
5 And I will scatter your bones round
about your altars, 6 and in all your
habitations: the cities shall be made desolate, and the high places utterly
laid waste; that your altars may be destroyed, and your idols be broken to
pieces, and your consecrated plats be abolished.
7 And slain
men shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know
that I am the Lord.
8 When there are
some of you escaping from the sword among the
Gentiles, and when ye are scattered in the countries;
9 then they of you that escape among
the nations whither they were carried captive shall remember me; (I have sworn
an oath against their heart that goes a-whoring from
me, and their eyes that go a-whoring after their practices;) and they shall
mourn over themselves for all their abominations.
10 And they shall know that I the
Lord have spoken.
11 Thus saith the Lord; Clap with
thy hand, and stamp with
thy foot and say, Aha, aha! for all the abominations
of the house of Israel: they shall fall by the sword, and by pestilence, and
by famine. 12 He that is near shall
fall by the sword; and he that is far off shall die by the pestilence; and he
that is in the siege shall be consumed with famine: and I will accomplish mine
anger upon them.
13 Then ye shall know that I am the
Lord, when your slain are in the midst of your idols round about your altars,
on every high hill, and under every shady tree, where
they offered a sweet savour to all their idols.
14 And I will stretch out my hand
against them, and I will make the land desolate and ruined from the wilderness
of Deblatha, in all their habitations: and ye shall
know that I am the Lord.