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Chapter 6 |
| 1 | And the word
of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| 2 | Son of man, set thy face toward
the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, |
| 3 | And say, Ye
mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to
the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I,
even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
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| 4 | And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and
I will cast down your slain men before your idols. |
| 5 | And I will lay
the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will
scatter your bones round about your altars. |
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6 | In all your
dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be
desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols
may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be
abolished. |
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| And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye
shall know that I am the LORD. |
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8 | Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may
have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be
scattered through the countries. |
| 9 | And they that escape of you
shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives,
because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and
with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe
themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their
abominations. |
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10 | And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I
have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them. |
| 11 | Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say,
Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall
by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. |
| 12 | He that is
far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the
sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will
I accomplish my fury upon them. |
| 13 | Then shall ye know that I am
the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their
altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every
green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet
savour to all their idols. |
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14 | So will I stretch out my hand upon
them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward
Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD. |
