| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 7 | And the
slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD. |
| 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. |
|
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. |
| 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. |
