Ezekiel 6-7

New King James Version

Judgment on Idolatrous Israel

6 Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying: ²“Son of man, ^(A)set your face toward the ^(B)mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, ³and say, ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to the mountains, to the hills, to the ravines, and to the valleys: “Indeed I, even I, will bring a sword against you, and ^(C)I will destroy your ^[a]high places. ⁴Then your altars shall be desolate, your incense altars shall be broken, and ^(D)I will cast down your slain men before your idols. ⁵And I will lay the corpses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones all around your altars. ⁶In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the ^[b]high places shall be desolate, so that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, your idols may be broken and made to cease, your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished. ⁷The slain shall fall in your midst, and ^(E)you shall know that I am the Lord.

⁸^(F)“Yet I will leave a remnant, so that you may have some who escape the sword among the nations, when you are ^(G)scattered through the countries. ⁹Then those of you who escape will ^(H)remember Me among the nations where they are carried captive, because ^(I)I was crushed by their adulterous heart which has departed from Me, and ^(J)by their eyes which play the harlot after their idols; ^(K)they will loathe themselves for the evils which they committed in all their abominations. ¹⁰And they shall know that I am the Lord; I have not said in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them.”

¹¹‘Thus says the Lord God: ^(L)“Pound^[c] your fists and stamp your feet, and say, ‘Alas, for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! ^(M)For they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. ¹²He who is far off shall die by the pestilence, he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine. ^(N)Thus will I spend My fury upon them. ¹³Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when their slain are among their idols all around their altars, ^(O)on every high hill, ^(P)on all the mountaintops, ^(Q)under every green tree, and under every thick oak, wherever they offered sweet incense to all their idols. ¹⁴So I will ^(R)stretch out My hand against them and make the land desolate, yes, more desolate than the wilderness toward ^(S)Diblah, in all their dwelling places. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.’ ” ’ ”

Judgment on Israel Is Near

7 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²“And you, son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel:

^(T)‘An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.
³Now the end has come upon you,
And I will send My anger against you;
I will judge you ^(U)according to your ways,
And I will repay you for all your abominations.
⁴^(V)My eye will not spare you,
Nor will I have pity;
But I will repay your ways,
And your abominations will be in your midst;
^(W)Then you shall know that I am the Lord!’

⁵“Thus says the Lord God:

‘A disaster, a singular ^(X)disaster;
Behold, it has come!
⁶An end has come,
The end has come;
It has dawned for you;
Behold, it has come!
⁷^(Y)Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land;
^(Z)The time has come,
A day of trouble is near,
And not of rejoicing in the mountains.
⁸Now upon you I will soon ^(AA)pour out My fury,
And spend My anger upon you;
I will judge you according to your ways,
And I will repay you for all your abominations.

⁹‘My eye will not spare,
Nor will I have pity;
I will ^[d]repay you according to your ways,
And your abominations will be in your midst.
Then you shall know that I am the Lord who strikes.

¹⁰‘Behold, the day!
Behold, it has come!
^(AB)Doom has gone out;
The rod has blossomed,
Pride has budded.
¹¹^(AC)Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness;
None of them shall remain,
None of their multitude,
None of ^[e]them;
^(AD)Nor shall there be wailing for them.
¹²The time has come,
The day draws near.

‘Let not the buyer ^(AE)rejoice,
Nor the seller ^(AF)mourn,
For wrath is on their whole multitude.
¹³For the seller shall not return to what has been sold,
Though he may still be alive;
For the vision concerns the whole multitude,
And it shall not turn back;
No one will strengthen himself
Who lives in iniquity.

¹⁴‘They have blown the trumpet and made everyone ready,
But no one goes to battle;
For My wrath is on all their multitude.
¹⁵^(AG)The sword is outside,
And the pestilence and famine within.
Whoever is in the field
Will die by the sword;
And whoever is in the city,
Famine and pestilence will devour him.

¹⁶‘Those who ^(AH)survive will escape and be on the mountains
Like doves of the valleys,
All of them mourning,
Each for his iniquity.
¹⁷Every ^(AI)hand will be feeble,
And every knee will be as weak as water.
¹⁸They will also ^(AJ)be girded with sackcloth;
Horror will cover them;
Shame will be on every face,
Baldness on all their heads.

¹⁹‘They will throw their silver into the streets,
And their gold will be like refuse;
Their ^(AK)silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them
In the day of the wrath of the Lord;
They will not satisfy their souls,
Nor fill their stomachs,
Because it became their stumbling block of iniquity.

²⁰‘As for the beauty of his ornaments,
He set it in majesty;
^(AL)But they made from it
The images of their abominations—
Their detestable things;
Therefore I have made it
Like refuse to them.
²¹I will give it as ^(AM)plunder
Into the hands of strangers,
And to the wicked of the earth as spoil;
And they shall defile it.
²²I will turn My face from them,
And they will defile My secret place;
For robbers shall enter it and defile it.

²³‘Make a chain,
For ^(AN)the land is filled with crimes of blood,
And the city is full of violence.
²⁴Therefore I will bring the ^(AO)worst of the Gentiles,
And they will possess their houses;
I will cause the pomp of the strong to cease,
And their holy places shall be ^(AP)defiled.
²⁵^[f]Destruction comes;
They will seek peace, but there shall be none.
²⁶^(AQ)Disaster will come upon disaster,
And rumor will be upon rumor.
^(AR)Then they will seek a vision from a prophet;
But the law will perish from the priest,
And counsel from the elders.

²⁷‘The king will mourn,
The prince will be clothed with desolation,
And the hands of the common people will tremble.
I will do to them according to their way,
And according to what they deserve I will judge them;
Then they shall know that I am the Lord!’ ”