1. Then the word of the Lord came to me again.
2. He said, “Son of man, turn toward the mountains of Israel and speak against them for me.
3. Tell them this: ‘Mountains of Israel, listen to this message from the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says to the hills and mountains and to the ravines and valleys: Look! I am bringing the enemy to fight against you. I will destroy your high places.
4. Your altars will be broken into pieces. Your incense altars will be smashed, and I will throw down your dead bodies in front of your filthy idols.
5. I will put the dead bodies of the people of Israel in front of their filthy idols. I will scatter your bones around your altars.
6. Bad things will happen wherever your people live. Their cities will become piles of rock. Their high places will be destroyed so that those places of worship will never be used again. The altars will all be destroyed. People will never worship those filthy idols again. The incense altars will be smashed. Everything you made will be destroyed completely.
7. Your people will be killed, and then you will know that I am the Lord!’”
8. God said, “But I will let a few of your people escape. They will live in other countries for a short time. I will scatter them and force them to live in other countries.
9. Then the survivors will be taken as prisoners. They will be forced to live in other countries, but they will remember me. I broke their spirit. They will hate themselves for the evil things they did. In the past, they turned away from me and left me. They chased after their filthy idols. They were like a woman leaving her husband and running off with another man. They did many terrible things,