Doom for the Mountains of Israel

6 The word of the Lord came to me: ² “Son of man, set your face^(A) against the mountains^(B) of Israel; prophesy against them^{(C) 3} and say: ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign Lord. This is what the Sovereign Lord says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys:^(D) I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.^{(E) 4} Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars^(F) will be smashed; and I will slay your people in front of your idols.^{(G) 5} I will lay the dead bodies of the Israelites in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones^(H) around your altars.^{(I) 6} Wherever you live,^(J) the towns will be laid waste and the high places^(K) demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and devastated, your idols^(L) smashed and ruined, your incense altars^(M) broken down, and what you have made wiped out.^{(N) 7} Your people will fall slain^(O) among you, and you will know that I am the Lord.^(P)

¹³ And they will know that I am the Lord, when their people lie slain among their idols^(A) around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy oak^(B)—places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.^(C)