6Then the Word of GOD came to me:H1697H3068H5592"Son of man, now turn and face the mountains of Israel and preach against themH1121H120H7760H6440H2022H3478H50123: 'O Mountains of Israel, listen to the Message of GOD, the Master. GOD, the Master, speaks to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and the valleys: I'm about to destroy your sacred god and goddess shrines.H559H2022H3478H8085H1697H136H3069H559H136H3069H2022H1389H650H1516H935H2719H6H11164I'll level your altars, bust up your sun-god pillars, and kill your people as they bow down to your no-god idols.H4196H8074H2553H7665H5307H2491H6440H15445I'll stack the dead bodies of Israelites in front of your idols and then scatter your bones around your shrines.H5414H6297H1121H3478H6440H1544H2219H6106H5439H41966Every place where you've lived, the towns will be torn down and the pagan shrines demolished—altars busted up, idols smashed, all your custom-made sun-god pillars in ruins.H4186H5892H2717H1116H3456H4196H2717H816H1544H7665H7673H2553H1438H4639H42297Corpses everywhere you look! Then you'll know that I am GOD.H2491H5307H8432H3045H30688"'But I'll let a few escape the killing as you are scattered through other lands and nations.H3498H6412H2719H1471H2219H7769In the foreign countries where they're taken as prisoners of war, they'll remember me. They'll realize how devastated I was by their betrayals, by their voracious lust for gratifying themselves in their idolatries. They'll be disgusted with their evil ways, disgusting to God in the way they've lived.H6412H2142H1471H7617H7665H2181H3820H5493H5869H2181H310H1544H6962H6440H7451H6213H844110They'll know that I am GOD. They'll know that my judgment against them was no empty threat.H3045H3068H1696H2600H6213H745111"'This is what GOD, the Master, says: Clap your hands, stamp your feet, yell out, "No, no, no!" because of all the evil obscenities rife in Israel. They're going to be killed, dying of hunger, dying of disease—H559H136H3069H5221H3709H7554H7272H559H253H7451H8441H1004H3478H5307H2719H7458H169812death everywhere you look, people dropping like flies, people far away dying, people nearby dying, and whoever's left in the city starving to death. Why? Because I'm angry, furiously angry.H7350H4191H1698H7138H5307H2719H7604H5341H4191H7458H3615H253413They'll realize that I am GOD when they see their people's corpses strewn over and around all their ruined sex-and-religion shrines on the bare hills and in the lush fertility groves, in all the places where they indulged their sensual rites.H3045H3068H2491H8432H1544H5439H4196H7311H1389H7218H2022H7488H6086H5687H424H4725H5414H5207H7381H154414I'll bring my hand down hard on them, demolish the country wherever they live, turn it into wasteland from one end to the other, from the wilderness to Riblah. Then they'll know that I am GOD!'"H5186H3027H5414H776H8077H4923H4057H1689H4186H3045H3068
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