Ezekiel 6 - Easy To Read Version

¹ Then the word of the Lord came to me again.

² He said, “Son of man, {\cf2\super [46]} turn towards the mountains of Israel. Speak against them for me.

³ Tell those mountains these things:

⁴ Your altars {\cf2\super [48]} will be broken into pieces! Your incense {\cf2\super [49]} 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. Why? So that those places of worship will never be used again. Those altars will all be destroyed. People will never worship those filthy idols again. Those incense altars will be smashed. All the things you made will be completely destroyed!

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 those survivors {\cf2\super [50]} will be taken prisoners. They will be forced to live in other countries. But those survivors will remember me. I broke their spirit. {\cf2\super [51]} They will hate themselves for the bad 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 after some other man. They did many terrible things.

^10-13 But they will know that I am the Lord. And they will know that if I say that I will do something, then I will do it! They will know that I caused all of the bad things that happened to them.”

¹⁴ \{God said,\} “\{Jerusalem,\} I will destroy you—you will be nothing but a pile of rocks. The people around you will make fun of you. Every person that walks by will make fun of you.