Ezekiel 6:6

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Ezekiel 6:6

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Summary

In all your dwellingplaces 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 images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

All your

Isaiah 6:11

Jeremiah 9:19

Zephaniah 3:7

The cities

And the

Your altars

Your works

Psalm 115:8

Isaiah 1:31

Habakkuk 2:18

Bible References

All your

Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered,
“Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant,
Houses are without people
And the land is utterly desolate,

“For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion,
‘How are we ruined!
We are put to great shame,
For we have left the land,
Because they have cast down our dwellings.’”

“I said, ‘Surely you will revere Me,

Accept instruction.’

So her dwelling will not be cut off
According to all that I have appointed concerning her.
But they were eager to corrupt all their deeds.

The cities

Moreover, I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations which surround you, in the sight of all who pass by.

Behold, the Lord

lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants.

For the land of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up;

Yea, for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city.

Your holy cities have become a wilderness,
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.

“The young lions have roared at him,
They have roared loudly.
And they have made his land a waste;
His cities have been destroyed, without inhabitant.

“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
A haunt of jackals;
And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

The sound of a report! Behold, it comes—
A great commotion out of the land of the north—
To make the cities of Judah
A desolation, a haunt of jackals.

Behold, I am going to command,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will bring them back to this city; and they will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant.’”

Therefore, on account of you

Zion will be plowed as a field,

Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins,

And the mountain of the temple will become high places of a forest.

“I will completely remove all things
From the face of the earth,” declares the Lord.

“I have cut off nations;
Their corner towers are in ruins.
I have made their streets desolate,
With no one passing by;
Their cities are laid waste,
Without a man, without an inhabitant.

And the

I will also give you into the hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and will leave you naked and bare.

I then will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and heap your remains on the remains of your idols, for My soul shall abhor you.

O mountain of Mine in the countryside,
I will give over your wealth and all your treasures for booty,
Your high places for sin throughout your borders.

Also the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed;

Thorn and thistle will grow on their altars;

Then they will say to the mountains,
“Cover us!” And to the hills, “Fall on us!”

Your altars

‘Thus says the Lord God,
“I will also destroy the idols
And make the images cease from

Memphis.

And there will no longer be a prince in the land of Egypt;
And I will put fear in the land of Egypt.

But the idols will completely vanish.

Therefore through this Jacob’s iniquity will be forgiven;
And this will be the full price of the

pardoning of his sin:

When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones;
When Asherim and incense altars will not stand.

Their heart is

faithless;

Now they must bear their guilt.

The Lord will break down their altars

And destroy their sacred pillars.

All of her idols will be smashed,
All of her earnings will be burned with fire
And all of her images I will make desolate,
For she collected them from a harlot’s earnings,
And to the earnings of a harlot they will return.

“I will cut off your carved images
And your sacred pillars from among you,
So that you will no longer bow down
To the work of your hands.

“I will remove man and beast;
I will remove the birds of the sky
And the fish of the sea,
And the

ruins along with the wicked;

And I will cut off man from the face of the earth,” declares the Lord.

“It will come about in that day,” declares the Lord of hosts, “that I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.

Your works

Those who make them will become like them,

Everyone who trusts in them.

The strong man will become tinder,
His work also a spark.
Thus they shall both burn together
And there will be none to quench them.

“What profit is the idol when its maker has carved it,
Or an image, a teacher of falsehood?
For its maker trusts in his own handiwork
When he fashions speechless idols.