Ezekiel 6:5-7
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
5 Yes, I will lay the corpses of the Israelites in front of their idols, and scatter your bones around your altars.[a](A) 6 Wherever you live, cities shall be ruined and high places laid waste, in order that your altars be laid waste and devastated, your idols broken and smashed, your incense altars hacked to pieces, and whatever you have made wiped out.(B) 7 The slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the Lord.[b](C)
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- 6:5 Scatter your bones…altars: the bones of the dead defiled a place; cf. 2 Kgs 23:14.
- 6:7 You shall know that I am the Lord: this formula is repeated after most of Ezekiel’s oracles from this point on. Whatever happens to Israel happens at the Lord’s command; because the Lord uses the nations to punish or reward Israel for its behavior, Israel will learn that its God has sole rule over the nations and the universe, and will acknowledge that rule in obedience.
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