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Judgment Against Idolatry

¹ The word of the Lord came to me: ^2 (a)"Son of man, ^(b)set your face toward ^(c)the mountains of Israel, and ^(d)prophesy against them, ³ and say, ^(e)You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to ^(f)the mountains and ^(g)the hills, to ^(h)the ravines and the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, ⁽ⁱ⁾and I will destroy your high places. ^4 (j)Your altars shall become desolate, and your ^(k)incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain before your idols. ^5 (l)And I will lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel before their idols, ^(m)and I will scatter your bones around your altars. ⁶ Wherever you dwell, ⁽ⁿ⁾the cities shall be waste and ^(o)the high places ruined, so that your altars will be waste and ruined,^[a] your idols broken and destroyed, your ^(p)incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out. ⁷ And the slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

^8 (q)"Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations ^(r)some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries, ⁹ then those of you who escape ^(s)will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how ^(t)I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes ^(u)that go whoring after their idols. ^(v)And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations. ¹⁰ And they shall know that I am the Lord. ^(w)I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them."

¹¹ Thus says the Lord God: ^(x)"Clap your hands ^(y)and stamp your foot and say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, ^(z)for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. ^12 (aa)He who is far off shall die of pestilence, and he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who is left and is preserved shall die of famine. ^(ab)Thus I will spend my fury upon them. ¹³ And you shall know that I am the Lord, ^(ac)when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, ^(ad)on every high hill, ^(ae)on all the mountaintops, ^(af)under every green tree, and under ^(ag)every leafy oak, wherever ^(ah)they offered pleasing aroma to all their idols. ¹⁴ And ^(ai)I will stretch out my hand against them and ^(aj)make the land desolate and waste, ^(ak)in all their dwelling places, from the wilderness to ^(al)Riblah.^[b] Then ^(am)they will know that I am the Lord."