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10 They will realize that I alone am God and that I wasn’t fooling when I told them that all this would happen to them.’”

11 The Lord God says: “Raise your hands in horror and shake your head[a] with deep remorse and say, ‘Alas for all the evil we have done!’ For you are going to perish from war and famine and disease. 12 Disease will strike down those in exile; war will destroy those in the land of Israel; and any who remain will die by famine and siege. So at last I will expend my fury on you.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 6:11 Raise your hands in horror and shake your head, literally, “Clap your hands and stamp your feet.”

10 And they will know that I am the Lord;(A) I did not threaten in vain to bring this calamity on them.(B)

11 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Strike your hands together and stamp your feet and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked and detestable practices of the people of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine and plague.(C) 12 One who is far away will die of the plague, and one who is near will fall by the sword, and anyone who survives and is spared will die of famine. So will I pour out my wrath(D) on them.(E)

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