| New American Standard Bible 1995 | NET Bible |
| 1And the word of the LORD came to me saying, | 1The word of the LORD came to me: |
| 2"Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them | 2"Son of man, turn toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them: |
| 3and say, 'Mountains of Israel, listen to the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, the hills, the ravines and the valleys: "Behold, I Myself am going to bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places. | 3Say, 'Mountains of Israel, Hear the word of the sovereign LORD! This is what the sovereign LORD says to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: I am bringing a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places. |
| 4"So your altars will become desolate and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will make your slain fall in front of your idols. | 4Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols. |
| 5"I will also lay the dead bodies of the sons of Israel in front of their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars. | 5I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars. |
| 6"In all your dwellings, cities will become waste and the high places will be desolate, that your altars may become waste and desolate, your idols may be broken and brought to an end, your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be blotted out. | 6In all your dwellings, the cities will be laid waste and the high places ruined so that your altars will be laid waste and ruined, your idols will be shattered and demolished, your incense altars will be broken down, and your works wiped out. |
| 7"The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD. | 7The slain will fall among you and then you will know that I am the LORD. |
| 8"However, I will leave a remnant, for you will have those who escaped the sword among the nations when you are scattered among the countries. | 8"'But I will spare some of you. Some will escape the sword when you are scattered in foreign lands. |
| 9"Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations to which they will be carried captive, how I have been hurt by their adulterous hearts which turned away from Me, and by their eyes which played the harlot after their idols; and they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed, for all their abominations. | 9Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are exiled. They will realize how I was crushed by their unfaithful heart which turned from me and by their eyes which lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves because of the evil they have done and because of all their abominable practices. |
| 10"Then they will know that I am the LORD; I have not said in vain that I would inflict this disaster on them."' | 10They will know that I am the LORD; my threats to bring this catastrophe on them were not empty.' |
| 11"Thus says the Lord GOD, 'Clap your hand, stamp your foot and say, "Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, which will fall by sword, famine and plague! | 11"'This is what the sovereign LORD says: Clap your hands, stamp your feet, and say, "Ah!" because of all the evil, abominable practices of the house of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine, and pestilence. |
| 12"He who is far 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 spend My wrath on them. | 12The one far away will die by pestilence, the one close by will fall by the sword, and whoever is left and has escaped these will die by famine. I will fully vent my rage against them. |
| 13"Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain are among their idols around their altars, on every 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. | 13Then you will know that I am the LORD--when their dead lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and all the mountaintops, under every green tree and every leafy oak, the places where they have offered fragrant incense to all their idols. |
| 14"So throughout all their habitations I will stretch 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."'" | 14I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah, in all the places where they live. Then they will know that I am the LORD!" |
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