1 The word of the LORD came to me:
2 "Son of man, turn your face toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.
3 Say, '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: See, I myself am bringing a sword against you, and I will wipe out your high places.
4 Your altars will be laid waste and your incense altars smashed, and I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.
5 I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel in front of their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.
6 Wherever you live, the cities will be ruined and the high places laid waste, so that your altars are ruined and left desolate, your idols smashed and gone, your incense altars hacked down, and what you have made wiped away.
7 The slain will fall among you, and you shall know that I am the LORD.
8 "'But I will leave some of you alive: you will have survivors of the sword among the nations when you are scattered among the lands.
9 Your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are taken captive, how I was crushed by their unfaithful heart that turned from me and by their eyes that played the harlot after their idols. They will be disgusted with themselves for the evil they did in all their abominations.
10 And they shall know that I am the LORD; it was not for nothing that I spoke of bringing this evil on them.'
11 "Thus says the Lord GOD: Clap your hands and stamp your feet and say, 'Alas for all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel!' For by sword, famine and pestilence they will fall.
12 The one far away will die by pestilence, the one nearby will fall by the sword, and the one who remains and is spared will die by famine. So I will vent my wrath on them.
13 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every lofty hill, on every mountain peak, beneath every luxuriant tree and beneath every leafy oak, the places where they presented soothing aromas to all their idols.
14 I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah, in every place they live. Then they shall know that I am the LORD."