Ezekiel 6

1Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

2“Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them,Cross-references: Josh 11:21 · Ezek 4:7 · Ezek 13:17 · Ezek 19:9 · Ezek 20:46 · Ezek 21:2 · +8 more

3and say, ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh! The Lord Yahweh says to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: “Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places.Cross-references: Lev 26:30 · Isa 27:9 · Jer 2:20 · Jer 3:6 · Jer 3:23 · Jer 22:29 · +3 more

4Your altars will become desolate, and your incense altars will be broken. I will cast down your slain men before your idols.Cross-references: Lev 26:30 · 1Ki 13:2 · 2Ki 23:14 · 2Ki 23:16 · 2Chr 14:5 · 2Chr 34:4 · +4 more

5I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols. I will scatter your bones around your altars.Cross-references: 2Ki 23:14 · 2Ki 23:16 · Jer 8:1

6In all your dwelling places, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be desolate, so that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.Cross-references: Lev 26:30 · Ps 115:8 · Isa 1:31 · Isa 2:18 · Isa 2:20 · Isa 6:11 · +24 more

7The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am Yahweh.Cross-references: Ex 7:5 · Ex 14:4 · Ex 14:18 · 2Ki 19:19 · Ps 83:17 · Jer 14:18 · +31 more

8“‘“Yet I will leave a remnant, in that you will have some that escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the countries.Cross-references: Isa 6:13 · Isa 27:7 · Jer 30:11 · Jer 44:14 · Jer 44:28 · Jer 46:28 · +7 more

9Those of you that escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols. Then they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.Cross-references: Lev 26:39 · Num 15:39 · Deut 4:29 · Deut 30:1 · 2Ki 16:10 · Job 42:6 · +26 more

10They will know that I am Yahweh. I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them.”’Cross-references: Jer 5:12 · Jer 44:28 · Ezek 6:7 · Ezek 14:22 · Dan 9:12 · Zech 1:6

11“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Strike with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, “Alas!”, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for they will fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.Cross-references: Num 24:10 · Isa 58:1 · Jer 9:1 · Jer 9:10 · Jer 15:2 · Jer 16:4 · +11 more

12He who is far off will die of the pestilence. He who is near will fall by the sword. He who remains and is besieged will die by the famine. Thus I will accomplish my wrath on them.Cross-references: Isa 40:2 · Lam 4:11 · Lam 4:22 · Ezek 5:13 · Dan 9:7

13You will know that I am Yahweh when their slain men are among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every green tree, and under every thick oak—the places where they offered pleasant aroma to all their idols.Cross-references: 1Ki 14:23 · 2Ki 16:4 · Isa 1:29 · Isa 37:20 · Isa 37:36 · Isa 57:5 · +7 more

14I will stretch out my hand on them and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”Cross-references: Num 33:46 · Isa 5:25 · Isa 9:12 · Isa 9:17 · Isa 9:21 · Isa 10:4 · +5 more