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The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
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Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them,
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and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places.
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Your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
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I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
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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 sun-images may be hewn down, and your works may be abolished.
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The slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
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Yet will I leave a remnant, in that you shall have some that escape the sword among the nations, when you shall be scattered through the countries.
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Those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with they eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.