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Ezekiel 6

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1 The word of the LORD came to me:
2 “Son of man, face the mountains of Israel ⓙ and prophesy against them.
3 You 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. ⓚ
4 Your altars will be desolated and your shrines [1] smashed. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.
5 I will lay the corpses of the Israelites in front of their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.
6 Wherever 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, [2] your idols smashed and obliterated, your shrines cut down, and what you have made wiped out.
7 The 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. ⓛ
9 Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are taken captive, ⓜ how I was crushed by their promiscuous hearts that turned away from me and by their eyes that lusted after their idols. ⓝ They will loathe themselves because of the evil things they did, ⓐ their detestable actions of every kind.
10 And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not threaten to bring this disaster on them without a reason.
11 “This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stamp your feet, ⓑ and cry out over all the evil and detestable practices of the house of Israel, who will fall by the sword, famine, and plague. ⓒ
12 The 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 spared [3] will die of famine. In this way I will exhaust my wrath on them. ⓓ
13 You will all know that I am the LORD when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, ⓔ on every high hill, ⓕ on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and every leafy oak — the places where they offered pleasing aromas to all their idols.
14 I will stretch out my hand against them, ⓖ and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. [4] Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Footnotes & Cross-References
Footnotes
Ezekiel 6:12 [12] Or among the chariots of Amminadab; or among the chariots of the people of the prince
Ezekiel 6:13 [13] In Hebrew texts this verse (6:13) is numbered 7:1.