Chapter 6 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
Desolate, and your images shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain men before
your idols, and I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before
their idols, and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
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 images may be cut down,
and your works may be abolished, and the slain shall fall in the midst of
you, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword
among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries,
and they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations, whether they shall
be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath
departed from me, and with 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.
And they shall know that I am the Lord, and that I have not said in vain that I
would do this evil unto them.
Thus saith the Lord God, smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot,
and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel,
for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
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.
Thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.
Then shall ye know that I am the Lord, when their slain men shall be among their
idols, round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of
the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where
they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea,
more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations.
And they shall know that I am the Lord.