Prophecy against Israel’s Idolatry
1The word of the Lord came to me:
3You are to say: Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! This is what the Lord God says to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.6:3–4 Lv 26:30
4Your altars will be desolated and your shrines6:4 Or incense altars, also in v. 6 smashed. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.
5I will lay the corpses of the Israelites in front of their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.
6Wherever you live the cities will be in ruins and the high places will be desolate, so that your altars will lie in ruins and be desecrated,6:6 Hb obscure your idols smashed and obliterated, your shrines cut down, and what you have made wiped out.
7The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the Lord.
8“Yet I will leave a remnant when you are scattered among the nations, for throughout the countries there will be some of you who will escape the sword.6:8 Jr 44:14,28; Ezk 7:16
9Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are taken captive,6:9 Dt 4:29 how I was crushed by their promiscuous hearts that turned away from me and by their eyes that lusted after their idols.6:9 Ps 78:40 They will loathe themselves because of the evil things they did,6:9 Ezk 20:43; 36:31 their detestable actions of every kind.
10And they will know that I am the Lord; I did not threaten to bring this disaster on them without a reason.
Lament over the Fall of Jerusalem
11“This is what the Lord God says: Clap your hands, stamp your feet,6:11 Ezk 21:14,17; 25:6 and cry out over all the evil and detestable practices of the house of Israel, who will fall by the sword, famine, and plague.6:11 Ezk 5:12
12The one who is far off will die by plague; the one who is near will fall by the sword; and the one who remains and is spared6:12 Or besieged will die of famine. In this way I will exhaust my wrath on them.6:12 Ezk 5:13
13You will all know that I am the Lord when their slain lie among their idols around their altars,6:13 Ezk 6:4–7 on every high hill,6:13 Is 57:5–7; Jr 2:20; Ezk 20:28; Hs 4:13 on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and every leafy oak — the places where they offered pleasing aromas to all their idols.
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