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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Ezekiel 6 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ezekiel/6.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ezekiel/6-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Ezekiel 6</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezekiel/5.htm" title="Ezekiel 5">◄</a> Ezekiel 6 <a href="../ezekiel/7.htm" title="Ezekiel 7">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/ezekiel/6.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Judgment against Israel’s Mountains</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Again a message came to me from the LORD: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Son of man, turn and face the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Proclaim this message from the Sovereign LORD against the mountains of Israel. This is what the Sovereign LORD says to the mountains and hills and to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring war upon you, and I will smash your pagan shrines. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>All your altars will be demolished, and your places of worship will be destroyed. I will kill your people in front of your idols.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I will lay your corpses in front of your idols and scatter your bones around your altars. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Wherever you live there will be desolation, and I will destroy your pagan shrines. Your altars will be demolished, your idols will be smashed, your places of worship will be torn down, and all the religious objects you have made will be destroyed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The place will be littered with corpses, and you will know that I alone am the LORD.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“But I will let a few of my people escape destruction, and they will be scattered among the nations of the world. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then when they are exiled among the nations, they will remember me. They will recognize how hurt I am by their unfaithful hearts and lustful eyes that long for their idols. Then at last they will hate themselves for all their detestable sins. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They will know that I alone am the LORD and that I was serious when I said I would bring this calamity on them.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Clap your hands in horror, and stamp your feet. Cry out because of all the detestable sins the people of Israel have committed. Now they are going to die from war and famine and disease. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Disease will strike down those who are far away in exile. War will destroy those who are nearby. And anyone who survives will be killed by famine. So at last I will spend my fury on them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They will know that I am the LORD when their dead lie scattered among their idols and altars on every hill and mountain and under every green tree and every great shade tree—the places where they offered sacrifices to their idols. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I will crush them and make their cities desolate from the wilderness in the south to Riblah<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> in the north. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">6:4 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term (literally </span><span class="it">round things</span><span class="ft">) probably alludes to dung; also in 6:5, 6, 9, 13.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">6:14 </span><span class="ft">As in some Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts read </span><span class="it">Diblah.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of <a href="http://www.tyndale.com">Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.</a>, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. 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