Ezekiel 6:1-11

Doom for the Mountains of Israel

1 The word of the LORD came to me:
2 “Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel; prophesy against them
3 and say: ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign LORD. This is what the Sovereign LORD 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.
4 Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will slay your people in front of your idols.
5 I will lay the dead bodies of the Israelites in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
6 Wherever you live, the towns will be laid waste and the high places demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and devastated, your idols smashed and ruined, your incense altars broken down, and what you have made wiped out.
7 Your people will fall slain among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.
8 “ ‘But I will spare some, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the lands and nations.
9 Then in the nations where they have been carried captive, those who escape will remember me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts, which have turned away from me, and by their eyes, which have lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their detestable practices.
10 And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not threaten in vain to bring this calamity on them.
11 “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Strike your hands together and stamp your feet and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked and detestable practices of the people of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine and plague.

Cross References 26

  • 1. S Ezekiel 4:7
  • 2. Ezekiel 18:6; Micah 6:1; Ezekiel 36:1
  • 3. ver 13
  • 4. Ezekiel 36:4
  • 5. S Leviticus 26:30
  • 6. S 2 Chronicles 14:5
  • 7. Ezekiel 9:6; Ezekiel 14:3; Ezekiel 20:16
  • 8. S Numbers 19:16; S Psalms 53:5; Jeremiah 8:1-2
  • 9. ver 13; S Leviticus 26:30
  • 10. S Exodus 12:20
  • 11. Hosea 10:8
  • 12. Ezekiel 30:13; Micah 1:7; Zechariah 13:2
  • 13. S Leviticus 26:30
  • 14. S 1 Samuel 5:4; Isaiah 6:11; S Ezekiel 5:14
  • 15. Ezekiel 9:7
  • 16. ver 10,13,14; Ezekiel 11:10-12
  • 17. S Psalms 68:20; S Jeremiah 44:28
  • 18. S Genesis 11:4; S Psalms 44:11; Isaiah 6:13; S Jeremiah 44:14; Ezekiel 7:16; Ezekiel 12:16; Ezekiel 14:22
  • 19. S Psalms 137:6; Zechariah 10:9
  • 20. Psalms 78:40; S Isaiah 7:13; S Jeremiah 8:21
  • 21. S Exodus 22:20; Ezekiel 20:7,24; Micah 5:13
  • 22. S Exodus 32:22
  • 23. S Job 42:6; Ezekiel 20:43; Ezekiel 23:14-16; Ezekiel 36:31
  • 24. S ver 7
  • 25. S Deuteronomy 28:52; Jeremiah 40:2
  • 26. S Jeremiah 42:22; Ezekiel 5:12; Ezekiel 21:14,17; Ezekiel 22:13; Ezekiel 25:6
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