| NET Bible | English Standard Version |
| 1The word of the LORD came to me: | 1The word of the LORD came to me: |
| 2"Son of man, turn toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them: | 2“Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, |
| 3Say, 'Mountains of Israel, Hear the word of the sovereign LORD! This is what the sovereign LORD says to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: I am bringing a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places. | 3and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places. |
| 4Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols. | 4Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain before your idols. |
| 5I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars. | 5And I will lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars. |
| 6In all your dwellings, the cities will be laid waste and the high places ruined so that your altars will be laid waste and ruined, your idols will be shattered and demolished, your incense altars will be broken down, and your works wiped out. | 6Wherever you dwell, the cities shall be waste and the high places ruined, so that your altars will be waste and ruined, your idols broken and destroyed, your incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out. |
| 7The slain will fall among you and then you will know that I am the LORD. | 7And the slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the LORD. |
| 8"'But I will spare some of you. Some will escape the sword when you are scattered in foreign lands. | 8“Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries, |
| 9Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are exiled. They will realize how I was crushed by their unfaithful heart which turned from me and by their eyes which lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves because of the evil they have done and because of all their abominable practices. | 9then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations. |
| 10They will know that I am the LORD; my threats to bring this catastrophe on them were not empty.' | 10And they shall know that I am the LORD. I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them.” |
| 11"'This is what the sovereign LORD says: Clap your hands, stamp your feet, and say, "Ah!" because of all the evil, abominable practices of the house of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine, and pestilence. | 11Thus says the Lord GOD: “Clap your hands and stamp your foot and say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. |
| 12The one far away will die by pestilence, the one close by will fall by the sword, and whoever is left and has escaped these will die by famine. I will fully vent my rage against them. | 12He who is far off shall die of pestilence, and he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who is left and is preserved shall die of famine. Thus I will spend my fury upon them. |
| 13Then you will know that I am the LORD--when their dead lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and all the mountaintops, under every green tree and every leafy oak, the places where they have offered fragrant incense to all their idols. | 13And you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing aroma to all their idols. |
| 14I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah, in all the places where they live. Then they will know that I am the LORD!" | 14And I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land desolate and waste, in all their dwelling places, from the wilderness to Riblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.” |
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