| New American Standard Bible 1995 | English Standard Version |
| 1And the word of the LORD came to me saying, | 1The word of the LORD came to me: |
| 2"Son of man, set your face 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, |
| 3and say, 'Mountains of Israel, listen to the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, the hills, the ravines and the valleys: "Behold, I Myself am going to bring a sword on 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. |
| 4"So your altars will become desolate and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will make your slain fall 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. |
| 5"I will also lay the dead bodies of the sons 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. |
| 6"In all your dwellings, cities will become waste and the high places will be desolate, that your altars may become waste and desolate, your idols may be broken and brought to an end, your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be blotted 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. |
| 7"The slain will fall among you, and 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"However, I will leave a remnant, for you will have those who escaped the sword among the nations when you are scattered among the countries. | 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, |
| 9"Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations to which they will be carried captive, how I have been hurt by their adulterous hearts which turned away from Me, and by their eyes which played the harlot after their idols; and they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed, for all their abominations. | 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. |
| 10"Then they will know that I am the LORD; I have not said in vain that I would inflict this disaster on them."' | 10And they shall know that I am the LORD. I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them.” |
| 11"Thus says the Lord GOD, 'Clap your hand, stamp your foot and say, "Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, which will fall by sword, famine and plague! | 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. |
| 12"He who is far off will die by the plague, and he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged will die by the famine. Thus will I spend My wrath on 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. |
| 13"Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain are among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every green tree and under every leafy oak-- the places where they offered soothing aroma 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. |
| 14"So throughout all their habitations I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land more desolate and waste than the wilderness toward Diblah; thus 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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