| Christian Standard Bible | Berean Study Bible |
| 1The word of the LORD came to me: | 1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, |
| 2"Son of man, face the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them. | 2“Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them. |
| 3You are to say: Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places. | 3You are to say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places. |
| 4Your altars will be desolated and your shrines smashed. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols. | 4Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols. |
| 5I will lay the corpses of the Israelites in front of their idols and scatter your bones around your altars. | 5I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars. |
| 6Wherever you live the cities will be in ruins and the high places will be desolate, so that your altars will lie in ruins and be desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your shrines cut down, and what you have made wiped out. | 6Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out. |
| 7The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD. | 7The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD. |
| 8"Yet I will leave a remnant when you are scattered among the nations, for throughout the countries there will be some of you who will escape the sword. | 8Yet I will leave a remnant, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands. |
| 9Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are taken captive, how I was crushed by their promiscuous hearts that turned away from me and by their eyes that lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves because of the evil things they did, their detestable actions of every kind. | 9Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations. |
| 10And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not threaten to bring this disaster on them without a reason. | 10And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not declare in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them. |
| 11"This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stamp your feet, and cry out over all the evil and detestable practices of the house of Israel, who will fall by the sword, famine, and plague. | 11This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by sword and famine and plague. |
| 12The one who is far off will die by plague; the one who is near will fall by the sword; and the one who remains and is spared will die of famine. In this way I will exhaust my wrath on them. | 12He who is far off will die by the plague, he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains will die by famine. So I will vent My fury upon them. |
| 13You will all know that I am the LORD when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and every leafy oak--the places where they offered pleasing aromas to all their idols. | 13Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols. |
| 14I will stretch out my hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD." | 14I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’ ” |
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