Ezekiel 6
The Prophecy against
the Mountains of Israel |
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And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, set thy face toward the
mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
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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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And your altars shall be desolate, and
your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
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And I will lay the dead carcasses of the
children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones
round about your altars.
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In all your dwelling places 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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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.
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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 loathe themselves for the evils which
they have committed in all their abominations.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 savor to all
their idols.
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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.
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