1  And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 2  Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, 3  and say, Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah: thus saith the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and to the hills, to the water-courses and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, do bring a sword upon you, and will destroy your high places. 4  And your altars shall be desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols; 5  and I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. 6  In all your dwelling-places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your sun-images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished. 7  And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

8  Yet will I leave a remnant, in that ye shall have some escaped from the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries. 9  And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they have been carried captives, when I shall have broken their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols; and they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed, in all their abominations. 10  And they shall know that I am Jehovah: I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.