Ezekiel 6:1–9

¹The LORD’s word came to me, saying,↗

²“Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them,↗

³and say, ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! The Lord GOD 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.↗

⁴Your altars will become desolate, and your incense altars will be broken. I will cast down your slain men before your idols.↗

⁵I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols. I will scatter your bones around your altars.↗

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.↗

⁷The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.↗

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.↗

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.↗