The punishment of Israel for their idolatry: a remnant shall be saved.
6:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
6:2. Son of man set thy face towards the mountains of Israel, and
prophesy against them.
6:3. And say: Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God:
Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the
rocks, and the valleys: Behold, I will bring upon you the sword, and I
will destroy your high places.
6:4. And I will throw down your altars, and your idols shall be broken
in pieces: and I will cast down your slain before your idols.
6:5. And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before
your idols: and I will scatter your bones round about your altars,
6:6. In all your dwelling places. The cities shall be laid waste, and
the high places shall be thrown down, and destroyed, and your altars
shall be abolished, and shall be broken in pieces: and your idols shall
be no more, and your temples shall be destroyed, and your works shall
be defaced.
6:7. And the slain shall fall in the midst of you: and you shall know
that I am the Lord.
6:8. And I will leave in you some that shall escape the sword among the
nations, when I shall have scattered you through the countries.
6:9. And they that are saved of you shall remember me amongst the
nations, to which they are carried captives: because I have broken
their heart that was faithless, and revolted from me: and their eyes
that went a fornicating after their idols: and they shall be displeased
with themselves because of the evils which they have committed in all
their abominations.
6:10. And they shall know that I the Lord have not spoken in vain that
I would do this evil to them.
6:11. Thus saith the Lord God: Strike with thy hand and stamp with thy
foot, and say: Alas, for all the abominations of the evils of the house
of Israel: for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence.
6:12. He that is far off shall die of the pestilence: and he that is
near, shall fall by the sword: and he that remaineth, and is besieged,
shall die by the famine: and I will accomplish my indignation upon
them.
6:13. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when your slain shall be
amongst your idols, round about your altars, in every high hill, and on
all the tops of mountains, and under every woody tree, and under every
thick oak, the place where they burnt sweet smelling frankincense to
all their idols.
6:14. And I will stretch forth my hand upon them: and I will make the
land desolate, and abandoned from the desert of Deblatha in all their
dwelling places: and they shall know that I am the Lord.