Ezek 6
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And the word of YHWH came to me, saying,
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Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them,
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and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord YHWH: Thus says the Lord
YHWH to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: Behold,
I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
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And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I
will cast down your slain men before your idols.
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And I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I
will scatter your bones round about your altars.
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In all your dwelling-places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall
be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols
may be broken and cease, and your sun-images may be hewn down, and your works may
be abolished.
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And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know that I am YHWH.
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Yet will I leave a remnant, in that you shall have some that escape the sword among
the nations, when you shall be scattered through the countries.
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And those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations where they shall
be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed
from me, and with they eyes, which play the harlot after their idols: and they shall
loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all
their abominations.
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And they shall know that I am YHWH: I have not said in vain that I would do this evil
to them.
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Thus says the Lord YHWH: Smite with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say,
Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for they shall
fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
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He who is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he who is near shall fall by the
sword; and he who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish
my anger upon them.
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And you shall know that I am YHWH, when their slain men shall be among their idols
round about their altars, upon every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains,
and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered
sweet savor to all their idols.
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And I will stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate and waste, from
the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations: and they shall know
that I am YHWH.