1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2“Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.[ † ]Ezekiel 20:46Ezekiel 21:2Ezekiel 25:2Ezekiel 36:1
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.[ † ]Leviticus 26:30 4Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols.[ † ]Leviticus 26:30 5I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones 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. 7The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the Lord.[ † ]Ezekiel 7:4-9
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.[ † ]Jeremiah 44:28Ezekiel 5:2-12Ezekiel 12:16Ezekiel 14:22Ezekiel 5:12
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.[ † ]Deuteronomy 4:29Psalms 137Jeremiah 51:50Psalms 78:40Isaiah 7:13Isaiah 43:24Hosea 11:8Numbers 15:39Ezekiel 20:7-24Leviticus 26:39Job 42:6Ezekiel 20:43Ezekiel 36:31 10And they will know that I am the Lord; I did not declare in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them.
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.[ † ]Ezekiel 21:14Ezekiel 5:12 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.[ † ]Lamentations 4:11-22Ezekiel 5:13
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.[ † ]Jeremiah 2:20Jeremiah 3:61 Kings 14:232 Kings 16:4Ezekiel 20:28Hosea 4:13Isaiah 57:5 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.’”[ † ]Isaiah 5:25Ezekiel 14:13Ezekiel 20:33-34Numbers 33:46