CHAP. VI.
The punishment of Israel for
their idolatry: a remnant
shall be blessed.
1 And the word of the
Lord came to me,
saying:
2 Son of man, set thy
face towards the mountains
of Israel, and prophesy against
them,
3 And say: Ye mountains
of Israel, hear the
word of the Lord God:
Thus saith the Lord God
to the mountains, and to
the hills, and to the rocks,
and the valleys: Behold,
I will bring upon you the
sword, and I will destroy
your high places,
4 And I will throw down
your altars, and your idols
shall be broken in pieces:
and I will cast down your
slain before your idols.
5 And I will lay the dead
carcases of the children of
Israel before your 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 thrown down, and
destroyed, and your altars
shall be abolished, and shall
be broken in pieces: and
your idols shall be no more,
and your temples shall be
destroyed, and your works
shall be defaced.
7 And the slain shall fall
in the midst of you: and
you shall know that I am
the Lord.
8 And I will leave in you
some that shall escape the
sword among the nations,
when I shall have scattered
you through the countries.
9 And they that are saved
of you shall remember me
amongst the nations to which
they are carried captives:
because I have broken their
heart that was faithless, and
revolted from me: and their
eyes that went a whoring
after their idols: and they
shall be displeased with
themselves because of the
evils which they have committed
in all their abominations.
10 And they shall know
that I the Lord have not
spoken in vain that I would
do this evil to them.
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11 Thus saith the Lord
God: Strike with thy hand,
and stamp with thy foot, and
say: Alas, for all the abominations
of the evils of the house
of Israel: for they shall fall
by the sword, by the famine,
and by the pestilence.
12 He that is far off shall
die of the pestilence: and he
that is near, shall fall by the
sword: and he that remaineth,
and is besieged, shall die by
the famine: and I will accomplish
my indignation upon
them.
13 And you shall know
that I am the Lord, when
your slain shall be amongst
your idols, round about your
altars, in every high hill, and
on all the tops of mountains,
and under every woody tree,
and under every thick oak,
the place where they burnt
sweet-smelling frankincense to
all their idols.
14 And I will stretch forth
my hand upon them: and I
will make the land desolate,
and abandoned from the desart
of Deblatha in all their
dwelling places: and they
shall know that I am the
Lord.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
