Ezekiel 6

New American Standard Bible

Idolatrous Worship Denounced

6 Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²“Son of man, set your face toward the ^(A)mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them ³and say, ‘Mountains of Israel, listen to the word of the Lord ^[a]God! This is what the Lord ^[b]God says to the mountains, the hills, the ravines, and the valleys: “Behold, I Myself am going to bring a sword against you, and ^(B)I will destroy your high places. ⁴So your ^(C)altars will become deserted and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will make your slain fall in front of your idols. ⁵I will also lay the dead bodies of the sons of Israel in front of their idols; and I will scatter your ^(D)bones around your altars. ⁶^[c]Everywhere you live, ^(E)cities will be in ruins and the high places will be deserted, so that your altars will be in ruins and ^[d]deserted, your ^(F)idols will be broken and brought to an end, your incense altars will be cut down, and your works wiped out. ⁷The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the Lord.

⁸“However, I will leave a ^(G)remnant, in that you will have those who ^(H)escaped the sword among the nations when you are scattered among the countries. ⁹Then those of you who escape will ^(I)remember Me among the nations to which they will be taken captive, how I have ^[e]^(J)been hurt by their adulterous hearts which turned away from Me, and by their eyes which committed infidelity with their idols; and they will ^(K)loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed, for all their abominations. ¹⁰Then they will know that I am the Lord; I have not said in vain that I would inflict this disaster on them.”’

¹¹“This is what the Lord ^[f]God says: ‘Clap your hands, ^(L)stamp your foot and say, “^(M)Woe, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, which will fall by the ^(N)sword, famine, and plague! ¹²Anyone who is ^(O)far away will die by the plague, anyone who is near will fall by the sword, and anyone who remains and is spared from these will die by the famine. So I will ^(P)expend My wrath on them. ¹³Then you will know that I am the Lord, when their ^(Q)dead are among their idols around their altars, on ^(R)every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every leafy tree and under every massive oak with thick branches—the places where they offered a soothing aroma to all their idols. ¹⁴So through all their dwelling places I will ^(S)stretch out My hand against them and make the land more desolate and waste than the wilderness toward Diblah; so they will know that I am the Lord.”’”

Footnotes

Ezekiel 6:3 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
Ezekiel 6:3 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
Ezekiel 6:6 Lit In all your dwellings
Ezekiel 6:6 As in some ancient versions; MT suffer for their guilt
Ezekiel 6:9 Lit been broken; another reading is broken their (but unlikely)
Ezekiel 6:11 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord

Psalm 44

New American Standard Bible

Former Times of Help and Present Troubles.

For the music director. A ^[a]Maskil of the sons of Korah.

44 God, we have heard with our ears,
Our ^(A)fathers have told us
The ^(B)work that You did in their days,
In the ^(C)days of old.
²You with Your own hand ^(D)drove out the nations;
Then You ^(E)planted them;
You ^(F)afflicted the peoples,
Then You ^(G)let them go free.
³For by their own sword they ^(H)did not possess the land,
And their own arm did not save them,
But Your right hand and Your ^(I)arm and the ^(J)light of Your presence,
For You ^(K)favored them.

⁴You are ^(L)my King, God;
^(M)Command ^[b]victories for Jacob.
⁵Through You we will ^(N)push back our adversaries;
Through Your name we will ^(O)trample down those who rise up against us.
⁶For I will ^(P)not trust in my bow,
Nor will my sword save me.
⁷But You ^(Q)have saved us from our adversaries,
And You have ^(R)put to shame those who hate us.
⁸In God we have ^(S)boasted all day long,
And we will ^(T)give thanks to Your name forever. Selah

⁹Yet You ^(U)have rejected us and brought us to ^(V)dishonor,
And ^(W)do not go out with our armies.
¹⁰You cause us to ^(X)turn back from the enemy;
And those who hate us ^(Y)have taken spoils for themselves.
¹¹You turn us over ^[c]to be eaten like ^(Z)sheep,
And have ^(AA)scattered us among the nations.
¹²You ^(AB)sell Your people ^[d]cheaply,
And have not ^[e]profited by their sale.
¹³You make us an object of ^(AC)reproach to our neighbors,
Of scoffing and ^(AD)ridicule to those around us.
¹⁴You make us ^(AE)a proverb among the nations,
A ^[f]^(AF)laughingstock among the peoples.
¹⁵All day long my dishonor is before me
And ^[g]I am covered with my ^(AG)humiliation,
¹⁶Because of the voice of one who ^(AH)taunts and reviles,
Because of the presence of the ^(AI)enemy and the avenger.

¹⁷All this has come upon us, but we have ^(AJ)not forgotten You,
And we have not ^(AK)dealt falsely with Your covenant.
¹⁸Our heart has not ^(AL)turned back,
And our steps ^(AM)have not deviated from Your way,
¹⁹Yet You have ^(AN)crushed us in a place of ^(AO)jackals
And covered us with ^[h]^(AP)deep darkness.

²⁰If we had ^(AQ)forgotten the name of our God
Or extended our ^[i]hands to ^(AR)a strange god,
²¹Would God not ^(AS)find this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.
²²But ^(AT)for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are regarded as ^(AU)sheep to be slaughtered.
²³^(AV)Wake Yourself up, why ^(AW)do You sleep, Lord?
Awake, ^(AX)do not reject us forever.
²⁴Why do You ^(AY)hide Your face
And ^(AZ)forget our affliction and oppression?
²⁵For our ^(BA)souls have sunk down into the dust;
Our bodies cling to the earth.
²⁶^(BB)Rise up, be our help,
And ^(BC)redeem us because of Your mercy.