Ezekiel 6

Judgment Against Idolatry

1 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 *See ch. 2:1"Son of man, *ch. 13:17;20:46;21:2;25:2;28:21;29:2;35:2;38:2;[Luke 9:51] set your face toward *ch. 19:9;33:28;34:13,14;35:12;36:1,4,8;37:22;38:8;39:2,4,17the mountains of Israel, and *ch. 37:4,9;38:2prophesy against them, 3 and say, *ch. 36:1,4You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to *ch. 36:4,6the mountains and *[ver. 13] the hills, to *[ch. 31:12;Isa. 57:5,6] the ravines and the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, *Lev. 26:30and I will destroy your high places. 4 *[See ver. 3above] Your altars shall become desolate, and your *See 2 Chr. 14:5incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain before your idols. 5 *[See ver. 3above] And I will lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel before their idols, *[2 Kgs. 23:14,16]and I will scatter your bones around your altars. 6 Wherever you dwell, *ch. 12:20;[Isa. 27:10] the cities shall be waste and *[ver. 3, 4] the high places ruined, so that your altars will be waste and ruined,*6:6 Or and punished your idols broken and destroyed, your *[See ver. 4above]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 *ch. 12:16;14:22"Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations *ch. 7:16some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries, 9 then those of you who escape *ch. 16:61;20:43;36:31;Lev. 26:39,40will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how *[Jer. 23:9] I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes *See Ex. 34:15that go whoring after their idols. *ch. 16:61;20:43;36:31;Lev. 26:39,40And 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. *[Num. 23:19]I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them."

11 Thus says the Lord God: *[ch. 21:14,17] "Clap your hands *[ch. 25:6] and stamp your foot and say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, *See ch. 5:12for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. 12 *[ch. 7:15] 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. *See ch. 5:13Thus I will spend my fury upon them. 13 And you shall know that I am the Lord, *[ver. 4, 5] when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, *[ch. 20:28] on every high hill, *Hos. 4:13on all the mountaintops, *Jer. 2:20under every green tree, and under *Isa. 1:29every leafy oak, wherever *ch. 16:19;20:28;Gen. 8:21they offered pleasing aroma to all their idols. 14 And *ch. 25:7,13,16;35:3;Isa. 5:25I will stretch out my hand against them and *ch. 33:28make the land desolate and waste, *[ver. 6] in all their dwelling places, from the wilderness to *[Num. 34:11] Riblah.*6:14 Some Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts Diblah Then *See ver. 7they will know that I am the Lord."