6:1 The word of the LORD came to me:
6:2 “Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel; prophesy against them
6:3 and say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign LORD. This is what the Sovereign LORD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.
6:4 Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will slay your people in front of your idols.
6:5 I will lay the dead bodies of the Israelites in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
6:6 Wherever you live, the towns will be laid waste and the high places demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and devastated, your idols smashed and ruined, your incense altars broken down, and what you have made wiped out.
6:7 Your people will fall slain among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.
6:8 “‘But I will spare some, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the lands and nations.
6:9 Then in the nations where they have been carried captive, those who escape will remember me–how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts, which have turned away from me, and by their eyes, which have lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their detestable practices.
6:10 And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not threaten in vain to bring this calamity on them.
6:11 “‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Strike your hands together and stamp your feet and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked and detestable practices of the house of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine and plague.
6:12 He that is far away will die of the plague, and he that is near will fall by the sword, and he that survives and is spared will die of famine. So will I spend my wrath upon them.
6:13 And they will know that I am the LORD, when their people lie slain among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy oak–places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
6:14 And I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land a desolate waste from the desert to Diblah–wherever they live. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”
6:1 And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
6:2 Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
6:3 And say, Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah. Thus says the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys, I am now bringing a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
6:4 And your altars will be desolated, and your sun images will be broken; and I will make your slain fall before your idols.
6:5 And I will lay the corpses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
6:6 In all the places that you dwell the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be desolated, so that your altars may be laid waste and desolated, and your idols may be broken and brought to an end, and your sun images may be cut down, and your works may be blotted out.
6:7 And the slain will fall in your midst, and you will know that I am Jehovah.
6:8 But I will leave a remnant, in that you will have those who have escaped the sword among the nations, when you are scattered among the countries.
6:9 And those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations to which they are carried away, how I am broken with their heart of harlotry, which turned away from Me, and with their eyes that go as harlots after their idols; and they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils that they have done, for all their abominations.
6:10 And they will know that I am Jehovah; I have not said in vain that I would do this ill to them.
6:11 Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Clap your hands and stamp your foot and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! For they will fall by sword, famine, and pestilence.
6:12 He who is far off will die by the pestilence, and he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who is left remaining and is besieged will die by the famine; thus I will spend My wrath on them.
6:13 Then you will know that I am Jehovah, when their slain are among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy terebinth, the places where they offered a sweet savor to all their idols.
6:14 So I will stretch out My hand against them and will make the land desolate, indeed, more desolate than the wilderness of Diblath, in all the places that they dwell; and they will know that I am Jehovah.