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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 NIV</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="../">NIV</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 International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/ezekiel/6.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Doom for the Mountains of Israel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The word of the <span class="name">Lord</span> came to me: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel; prophesy against them <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and say: ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span>. This is what the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span> says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will slay your people in front of your idols. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I will lay the dead bodies of the Israelites in front of their idols, and I will 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, the towns will be laid waste and the high places demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and devastated, your idols smashed and ruined, your incense altars broken down, and what you have made wiped out. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Your people will fall slain among you, and you will know that I am the <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“ ‘But I will spare some, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the lands and nations. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then in the nations where they have been carried captive, those who escape will remember me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts, which have turned away from me, and by their eyes, which have lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their detestable practices. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And they will know that I am the <span class="name">Lord</span>; I did not threaten in vain to 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 <span class="name">Lord</span> says: Strike your hands together and stamp your feet and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked and detestable practices of the people of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine and plague. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>One who is far away will die of the plague, and one who is near will fall by the sword, and anyone who survives and is spared will die of famine. So will I pour out my wrath on them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And they will know that I am the <span class="name">Lord</span>, when their people lie slain among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy oak—places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land a desolate waste from the desert to Diblah <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Most Hebrew manuscripts; a few Hebrew manuscripts Riblah">a</a></sup></span> —wherever they live. Then they will know that I am the <span class="name">Lord</span>.’ ”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotebot">Most Hebrew manuscripts; a few Hebrew manuscripts <i>Riblah</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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