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Judgment against Israel’s Mountains
Again a message came to me from the LORD:
Again a message came to me from the LORD:
Judgment on Idolatrous Israel
Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
“Son of man, turn and face the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.
“Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
Proclaim this message from the Sovereign LORD against the mountains of Israel. This is what the Sovereign LORD says to the mountains and hills and to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring war upon you, and I will smash your pagan shrines.
Then your altars shall be desolate, your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
I will lay your corpses in front of your idols and scatter your bones around your altars.
And I will lay the corpses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones all around your altars.
Wherever you live there will be desolation, and I will destroy your pagan shrines. Your altars will be demolished, your idols will be smashed, your places of worship will be torn down, and all the religious objects you have made will be destroyed.
The place will be littered with corpses, and you will know that I alone am the LORD.
The slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
“But I will let a few of my people escape destruction, and they will be scattered among the nations of the world.
“Yet I will leave a remnant, so that you may have some who escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the countries.
Then when they are exiled among the nations, they will remember me. They will recognize how hurt I am by their unfaithful hearts and lustful eyes that long for their idols. Then at last they will hate themselves for all their detestable sins.
Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations where they are carried captive, because I was crushed by their adulterous heart which has departed from Me, and by their eyes which play the harlot after their idols; they will loathe themselves for the evils which they committed in all their abominations.
They will know that I alone am the LORD and that I was serious when I said I would bring this calamity on them.
And they shall know that I am the Lord; I have not said in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them.”
“This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Clap your hands in horror, and stamp your feet. Cry out because of all the detestable sins the people of Israel have committed. Now they are going to die from war and famine and disease.
Disease will strike down those who are far away in exile. War will destroy those who are nearby. And anyone who survives will be killed by famine. So at last I will spend my fury on them.
He who is far off shall die by the pestilence, he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine. Thus will I spend My fury upon them.
They will know that I am the LORD when their dead lie scattered among their idols and altars on every hill and mountain and under every green tree and every great shade tree — the places where they offered sacrifices to their idols.
Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when their slain are among their idols all around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, wherever they offered sweet incense to all their idols.
So I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land desolate, yes, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblah, in all their dwelling places. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.’ ” ’ ”