| NET Bible | New Living Translation |
| 1The word of the LORD came to me: | 1Again a message came to me from the LORD: |
| 2"Son of man, turn toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them: | 2“Son of man, turn and face 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. | 3Proclaim this message from the Sovereign LORD against the mountains of Israel. This is what the Sovereign LORD says to the mountains and hills and to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring war upon you, and I will smash your pagan shrines. |
| 4Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols. | 4All your altars will be demolished, and your places of worship will be destroyed. I will kill your people in front of 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. | 5I will lay your corpses in front of your idols and 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 live there will be desolation, and I will destroy your pagan shrines. Your altars will be demolished, your idols will be smashed, your places of worship will be torn down, and all the religious objects you have made will be destroyed. |
| 7The slain will fall among you and then you will know that I am the LORD. | 7The place will be littered with corpses, and you will know that I alone am the LORD. |
| 8"'But I will spare some of you. Some will escape the sword when you are scattered in foreign lands. | 8“But I will let a few of my people escape destruction, and they will be scattered among the nations of the world. |
| 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 when they are exiled among the nations, they will remember me. They will recognize how hurt I am by their unfaithful hearts and lustful eyes that long for their idols. Then at last they will hate themselves for all their detestable sins. |
| 10They will know that I am the LORD; my threats to bring this catastrophe on them were not empty.' | 10They will know that I alone am the LORD and that I was serious when I said I would bring this calamity on 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. | 11“This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Clap your hands in horror, and stamp your feet. Cry out because of all the detestable sins the people of Israel have committed. Now they are going to die from war and famine and disease. |
| 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. | 12Disease will strike down those who are far away in exile. War will destroy those who are nearby. And anyone who survives will be killed by famine. So at last I will spend my fury on 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. | 13They will know that I am the LORD when their dead lie scattered among their idols and altars on every hill and mountain and under every green tree and every great shade tree—the places where they offered sacrifices to 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!" | 14I will crush them and make their cities desolate from the wilderness in the south to Riblah in the north. Then they will know that I am the LORD.” |
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