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Search for Books & Bibles: Idolatrous Worship Denounced 1 And the word of the LORD came to me saying, 2 "Son of man, set your face toward the mountains R143 of Israel, and prophesy against them 3 and say, `Mountains of Israel, listen to the word of the Lord GOD F59 ! Thus says the Lord GOD F59 to the mountains, the hills, the ravines and the valleys: "Behold, I Myself am going to bring a sword on you, and I R144 will destroy your high places. 4 "So your altars R145 will become desolate and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will make your slain fall in front of your idols. 5 "I will also lay the dead bodies of the sons of Israel in front of their idols; and I will scatter your bones R146 around your altars. 6 "In all your dwellings, cities R147 will become waste and the high places will be desolate, that your altars may become waste and desolate, F60 your idols R148 may be broken and brought to an end, your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be blotted out. 7 "The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD. 8 "However, I will leave a remnant, R149 for you will have those who escaped R150 the sword among the nations when you are scattered among the countries. 9 "Then those of you who escape will remember R151 Me among the nations to which they will be carried captive, how I have been R152 F61 hurt by their adulterous hearts which turned away from Me, and by their eyes which played the harlot after their idols; and they will loathe R153 themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed, for all their abominations. 10 "Then they will know that I am the LORD; I have not said in vain that F62 I would inflict this disaster on them."' 11 "Thus says the Lord GOD F63 , `Clap your hand, stamp R154 your foot and say, "Alas, R155 because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, which will fall by sword, R156 famine and plague! 12 "He who is far R157 off will die by the plague, and he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged will die by the famine. Thus will I spend R158 My wrath on them. 13 "Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain R159 are among their idols around their altars, on every R160 high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every green tree and under every leafy oak--the places where they offered soothing aroma to all their idols. 14 "So throughout all their habitations I will stretch R161 out My hand against them and make the land more desolate and waste than the wilderness toward Diblah; thus they will know that I am the LORD.""'
FOOTNOTES: F59: Hebrew YHWH, usually rendered L\ORD/ F60: So some ancient versions; Hebrew bear their guilt F61: Lit been broken, or, broken for Myself their F62: Lit to do this evil to F63: Hebrew YHWH, usually rendered L\ORD/
CROSS REFERENCES: R143: Ezekiel 36:1 R144: Leviticus 26:30 R145: Leviticus 26:30; 2 Chronicles 14:5; Isaiah 27:9; Ezekiel 6:6 R146: 2 Kings 23:14,16,20; Jeremiah 8:1,2 R147: Leviticus 26:31; Isaiah 6:11; Ezekiel 5:14 R148: Ezekiel 6:4; Micah 1:7; Zechariah 13:2 R149: Isaiah 6:13; Jeremiah 30:11 R150: Jeremiah 44:14,28; Ezekiel 7:16; 14:22 R151: Deuteronomy 4:29; 30:2; Jeremiah 51:50 R152: Psalms 78:40; Isaiah 7:13; 43:24; Hosea 11:8 R153: Job 42:6; Ezekiel 20:43; 36:31 R154: Ezekiel 25:6 R155: Ezekiel 9:4 R156: Ezekiel 5:12; 7:15 R157: Daniel 9:7 R158: Lamentations 4:11,22; Ezekiel 5:13 R159: Ezekiel 6:4-7 R160: 1 Kings 14:23; 2 Kings 16:4; Isaiah 57:5-7; Ezekiel 20:28; Hosea 4:13 R161: Isaiah 5:25; 9:12; Ezekiel 14:13; 20:33,34

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