4. The altars will be torn down and the incense altars broken. All the people there will be killed in front of their idols.
5. I will scatter the corpses of the people of Israel; I will scatter their bones all round the altars.
6. All the cities of Israel will be destroyed, so that all their altars and their idols will be smashed to pieces, their incense altars will be shattered, and everything they made will disappear.
7. People will be killed everywhere, and those who survive will acknowledge that I am the Lord.
8. “I will let some escape the slaughter and be scattered among the nations,
9. where they will live in exile. There they will remember me and know that I have punished them and disgraced them, because their faithless hearts deserted me and they preferred idols to me. And they will be disgusted with themselves because of the evil and degrading things they have done.
10. They will know that I am the Lord and that my warnings were not empty threats.”
11. The Sovereign Lord said, “Wring your hands! Stamp your feet! Cry in sorrow because of all the evil, disgusting things the Israelites have done. They are going to die in war, by famine, and by disease.
12. Those far away will fall ill and die; those near by will be killed in war; those who survive will starve to death. They will feel all the force of my anger.