Dual PanelGod's judgement on the land
1THIS word of the LORD came to me:
2“O man, face towards the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them
3and say: Mountains of Israel, listen to the word of the Lord GOD. He says this to the mountains and hills, the ravines and valleys: I am bringing a sword against you, and I shall destroy your shrines.
4Your altars will be devastated, your incense-altars shattered, and I shall throw down your slain in front of your idols.
5I shall lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.
6In all your settlements the blood-spattered altars will be laid waste and the shrines devastated. Your altars will be laid waste and devastated, your idols shattered and brought to an end, your incense-altars hewn down, and the gods you have made will be wiped out.
7As the slain fall all about you, you will know that I am the LORD.
8But among the nations there will be some of you that have survived the sword, and are scattered in foreign lands.
9They will remember me in exile among the nations, when I destroy their wanton and wayward hearts and their eyes which rove wantonly after their idols. Then they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done with all their abominations.
10Then they will know that I, the LORD, was uttering no vain threat when I said that I would inflict this evil on them.
11“The Lord GOD says: Beat your hands together, stamp your feet, bemoan all your vile abominations, people of Israel, who will fall by sword, famine, and pestilence.
12Those far away will die by pestilence; those nearer home will fall by the sword; any who survive or are spared will die by famine, and so at last my anger at them will be spent.
13You will know that I am the LORD when their slain fall among the idols round their altars, on every high hill or mountaintop, under every spreading tree or leafy terebinth, wherever they have offered sweet-smelling sacrifices to appease all their idols.
14I shall stretch out my hand over them and reduce the land in all their settlements to a desolate waste, more desolate than the desert of Riblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”