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Ezekiel 6

6 Yahweh gave me another message. He said, 2 “Mortal human, turn toward the mountains of Israel and speak against them what I tell you to say. 3 You must proclaim, ‘Mountains of Israel, attend to what the Sovereign Yahweh declares! Here is what the Sovereign Yahweh has to say to the high mountains and hilltops, and to the bottoms of the river streams and the low valleys: Pay attention to what I am about to do! I will soon dispatch enemy soldiers with swords against you. They will destroy all the elevated ritual places at which you worship other gods. 4 These warring soldiers will smash and defile all your altars—both those you use for offering meat to the idols of other gods and those you use to offer incense. The soldiers I send against you will kill many Israelite people, and their dead bodies will collapse on the ground in front of the ritual statues they used to worship. 5 I will ensure that the defiling dead bodies of Israelite people lie in the presence of their ritual statues, and I will strew their ritually impure bones all about the altars on which they used to offer meat sacrifices to their false gods. 6 Wherever you live, your towns will lie in ruins. The destruction of the coming war will cause you to abandon the elevated places where you used to worship ritual statues, so that they become deserted wastes. The invading armies will obliterate the altars on which you offered meat to other gods. They will crush your ritual statues and hack the altars on which you offered incense to other gods into splinters. In the end, every way that you once devised to honor other gods will become nothing but a useless pile of ruins. 7 This coming destruction will kill many people, and their dead bodies will drop right in front of you. When all of this occurs, you will finally understand exactly who I am and what I am like—I am Yahweh!

8 However, I will allow a portion of you to remain alive. You who survive the coming destruction will live in other nations like fugitives attempting to escape your armed enemies. Your enemies will forcibly disperse you and relocate you to live among many other empires. 9 When this happens, in the very places in which the other nations forcibly deported you, those of you who remain alive will consider me once again and remember who I am. You will finally realize how much deep sorrow and emotional pain you caused me. Your deepest desires were like an adulterating spouse, and you yearned to leave your relationship with me and belong to other gods! These other gods dominated your attention and devotion, like a woman lusting after a man other than her husband! As a result, you will one day feel shameful disgust toward yourselves when you think about all of the evil things you once did with your disgusting and unacceptable behavior. 10 In the end, you will finally understand exactly who I am and what I am like—I am Yahweh! You will realize that when I said that I would cause these disastrous calamities to happen to you, I would undoubtedly do them!

11 So, here is what I, the Sovereign Yahweh, have to say: Ezekiel, clap your hands together and stamp your feet! Exclaim a wail of lament over every disgustingly wicked thing that the Israelite people do! After all, they are all going to die soon—whether by their enemies’ swords, extreme hunger, or rampant infectious diseases. 12 Those who are far from Jerusalem will fatally suffer rampant infectious diseases, and the swords of Israel’s enemies will murder those who are close to Jerusalem. And those who remain alive after all of that will starve to death in extreme hunger. In this way, I will completely vent my furious anger against them. 13 The dead bodies of those who die from this disaster will lie intermingled with the ritual statues that they used to worship. They will lie together on every side of the altars on which they used to offer meat sacrifices to other gods, and on every elevated hilltop and on every mountain peak, under every verdant tree and sacred oak—at every place at which the Israelite people once burned pleasing aromatic incense to ritual statues to garner the favor of other gods. When you see this, you will finally understand exactly who I am and what I am like—I am Yahweh! 14 Yes, I will powerfully confront the Israelite people by causing the entire region of Israel to become a ruined, deserted wasteland—everywhere they have ever lived, from the desert in the most southern parts of Israel as far as the town of Diblah in the remote north. When they see this, they will finally understand exactly who I am and what I am like—I am Yahweh!”

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