Ezekiel 6:6–14

⁶“In all your dwellings, ^acities will become waste and the high places will be desolate, that your altars may become waste and ¹desolate, your ^bidols may be broken and brought to an end, your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be blotted out.

⁷“The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the Lord.

⁸“However, I will leave a ^aremnant, for you will have those who ^bescaped the sword among the nations when you are scattered among the countries.

⁹“Then those of you who escape will ^aremember Me among the nations to which they will be carried captive, how I have ^1bbeen hurt by their adulterous hearts which turned away from Me, and by their eyes which played the harlot after their idols; and they will ^cloathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed, for all their abominations.

¹⁰“Then they will know that I am the Lord; I have not said in vain ¹that I would inflict this disaster on them.” ’

¹¹“Thus says the Lord ¹God, ‘Clap your hand, ^astamp your foot and say, “^bAlas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, which will fall by ^csword, famine and plague!

¹²“He who is ^afar off will die by the plague, and he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged will die by the famine. Thus will I ^bspend My wrath on them.

¹³“Then you will know that I am the Lord, when their ^aslain are among their idols around their altars, on ^bevery high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every green tree and under every leafy oak—the places where they offered soothing aroma to all their idols.

¹⁴“So throughout all their habitations I will ^astretch out My hand against them and make the land more desolate and waste than the wilderness toward Diblah; thus they will know that I am the Lord.” ’ ”