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Ezekiel 6
New International Version

### Doom for the Mountains of Israel

6 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, set your face(A) against the mountains(B) of Israel; prophesy against them(C) 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:(D) I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.(E) 4 Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars(F) will be smashed; and I will slay your people in front of your idols.(G) 5 I will lay the dead bodies of the Israelites in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones(H) around your altars.(I) 6 Wherever you live,(J) the towns will be laid waste and the high places(K) demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and devastated, your idols(L) smashed and ruined, your incense altars(M) broken down, and what you have made wiped out.(N) 7 Your people will fall slain(O) among you, and you will know that I am the Lord.(P)

8 “‘But I will spare some, for some of you will escape(Q) the sword when you are scattered among the lands and nations.(R) 9 Then in the nations where they have been carried captive, those who escape will remember(S) me—how I have been grieved(T) by their adulterous hearts, which have turned away from me, and by their eyes, which have lusted after their idols.(U) They will loathe themselves for the evil(V) they have done and for all their detestable practices.(W) 10 And they will know that I am the Lord;(X) I did not threaten in vain to bring this calamity on them.(Y)

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.(Z) 12 One who is far away will die of the plague, and one who is near will fall by the sword, and anyone who survives and is spared will die of famine. So will I pour out my wrath(AA) on them.(AB) 13 And they will know that I am the Lord, when their people lie slain among their idols(AC) around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy oak(AD)—places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.(AE) 14 And I will stretch out my hand(AF) against them and make the land a desolate waste from the desert to Diblah[a]—wherever they live. Then they will know that I am the Lord.(AG)’”

#### Footnotes

1. Ezekiel 6:14 Most Hebrew manuscripts; a few Hebrew manuscripts Riblah

#### Cross references

1. Ezekiel 6:2 : S Eze 4:7
2. Ezekiel 6:2 : Eze 18:6; Mic 6:1
3. Ezekiel 6:2 : ver 13
4. Ezekiel 6:3 : Eze 36:4
5. Ezekiel 6:3 : S Lev 26:30
6. Ezekiel 6:4 : S 2Ch 14:5
7. Ezekiel 6:4 : Eze 9:6; 14:3; 20:16
8. Ezekiel 6:5 : S Nu 19:16; S Ps 53:5; Jer 8:1-2
9. Ezekiel 6:5 : ver 13; S Lev 26:30
10. Ezekiel 6:6 : S Ex 12:20
11. Ezekiel 6:6 : Hos 10:8
12. Ezekiel 6:6 : Eze 30:13; Mic 1:7; Zec 13:2
13. Ezekiel 6:6 : S Lev 26:30
14. Ezekiel 6:6 : S 1Sa 5:4; Isa 6:11; S Eze 5:14
15. Ezekiel 6:7 : Eze 9:7
16. Ezekiel 6:7 : ver 10, 13, 14; Eze 11:10-12
17. Ezekiel 6:8 : S Ps 68:20; S Jer 44:28
18. Ezekiel 6:8 : S Ge 11:4; S Ps 44:11; Isa 6:13; S Jer 44:14; Eze 7:16; 12:16; 14:22
19. Ezekiel 6:9 : S Ps 137:6; Zec 10:9
20. Ezekiel 6:9 : S Isa 7:13; S Jer 8:21
21. Ezekiel 6:9 : S Ex 22:20; Eze 20:7, 24; Mic 5:13
22. Ezekiel 6:9 : S Ex 32:22
23. Ezekiel 6:9 : S Job 42:6; Eze 20:43; 23:14-16; 36:31
24. Ezekiel 6:10 : S ver 7
25. Ezekiel 6:10 : S Dt 28:52; Jer 40:2
26. Ezekiel 6:11 : S Jer 42:22; Eze 21:14, 17; 22:13; 25:6
27. Ezekiel 6:12 : S Job 20:23
28. Ezekiel 6:12 : S Eze 5:12; 7:15
29. Ezekiel 6:13 : S Lev 26:30
30. Ezekiel 6:13 : S Isa 1:29
31. Ezekiel 6:13 : S 1Ki 14:23; S Jer 2:20; Eze 18:6; 20:28; Hos 4:13
32. Ezekiel 6:14 : S Ex 7:5; S Job 30:21; S Jer 6:12; 51:25; Eze 20:34
33. Ezekiel 6:14 : Eze 12:19; 14:13

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