¹The word of Yahweh came to me, saying:

²Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,

³And say: Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Adonai Yahweh. Thus says the Adonai Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the channels and to the valleys: Here I am, bringing a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

⁴Your altars will be made desolate, and your sun pillars shattered; and I will make your slain fall before your idols.

⁵And I will lay the corpses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones all around your altars.

⁶In all your dwelling places the cities will be waste and the high places desolate, so that your altars lie waste and bear guilt, your idols are shattered and cease, your sun pillars are cut down, and your works are wiped out.

⁷The slain will fall in your midst, and you will know that I am Yahweh.

⁸And I will leave some of you over, so that you have those who escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the lands.

⁹Those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they were taken captive, how I was broken by their whoring heart that turned aside from me, and by their eyes that go whoring after their idols; and they will loathe themselves in their own faces on account of the evils they did, for all their abominations.

¹⁰And they will know that I am Yahweh; I did not speak in vain to bring this misery on them.

¹¹Thus says the Adonai Yahweh: Strike with your hand and stamp with your foot, and say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

¹²The one far off will die by pestilence, and the one near will fall by the sword, and the one left over and the one blockaded will die by famine; and I will spend my rage on them.

¹³And you will know that I am Yahweh, when their slain lie among their idols, all around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree and under every thick-leafed terebinth, the place where they gave a soothing aroma to all their idols.

¹⁴And I will stretch out my hand against them, and I will make the land a desolation and a waste, from the wilderness to Diblah, in all their dwelling places; and they will know that I am Yahweh.