Keraia
Major Prophets

Ezekiel 6

Judgment against Idolatry

1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

1And the word of YHWH came to me, saying:

2“Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.

2“Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,

3You are to say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.

3and say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord YHWH! Thus says the Lord YHWH to the mountains, and to the hills, to the ravines, and to the valleys: Behold, I—I am bringing against you a sword, and I will destroy your high places.

4Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols.

4And your altars will be desolate, and your incense altars will be broken; and your slain I will cast down before your idols.

5I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.

5And I will lay the corpses of the sons of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones all around your altars.

6Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.

6In all your dwelling places the cities will be laid waste, and the high places will be made desolate, so that your altars may be destroyed and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and made to cease, and your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be blotted out!

7The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.

7And the slain will fall in your midst, and you will know that I am YHWH.

A Remnant to Be Blessed

8Yet I will leave a remnant, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands.

8And I will leave a remnant, in their being unto you escapees of the sword among the nations, in your being scattered in the lands.

9Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.

9And your escapees will remember Me in the nations to which they are carried captive there, how I was broken by their prostituting heart that turned away from Me, and by their eyes seeking prostitution after their idols; and they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they did by all their abominations.

10And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not declare in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them.

10And they will know that I am YHWH. Not in vain have I spoken that I would bring upon them this evil!

11This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by sword and famine and plague.

11Thus says the Lord YHWH: Strike with your hand, and stomp with your foot, and say, “Ah!” For all the evils of the abominations of the house of Israel! For by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence they will fall!

12He who is far off will die by the plague, he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains will die by famine. So I will vent My fury upon them.

12The one far off will die by the pestilence, and the one near will fall by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged will die by the famine. And I will complete My fury upon them.

13Then you will 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 leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.

13And you will know that I am YHWH, in the coming of their slain into the midst of their idols, all around their altars, at every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak—each place that they gave there a pleasing aroma to all their idols.

14I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

14And I will stretch out My hand against them, and I will make the land a desolation and a wasteland, from the wilderness to Diblah, in all their dwelling places. And they will know that I am YHWH!’”