Ezekiel 6:3

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You mountains of Israel, give ear to the words of the Lord: this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and the hills, to the waterways and the valleys: See, I, even I, am sending on you a sword for the destruction of your high places.

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  • Lev 26:30 : 30 And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.
  • Isa 27:9 : 9 So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.
  • Jer 2:20 : 20 For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman
  • Jer 3:6 : 6 And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what Israel, turning away from me, has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every branching tree, acting like a loose woman there.
  • Jer 3:23 : 23 Truly, the hills, and the noise of an army on the mountains, are a false hope: truly, in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.
  • Jer 22:29 : 29 O earth, earth, earth, give ear to the word of the Lord!
  • Ezek 36:1-4 : 1 And you, son of man, be a prophet about the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord: 2 This is what the Lord has said: Because your hater has said against you, Aha! and, The old waste places are our heritage, we have taken them: 3 For this cause be a prophet, and say, This is what the Lord has said: Because, even because they have been glad over you and put you to shame on every side, because you have become a heritage for the rest of the nations, and you are taken up on the lips of talkers and in the evil talk of the people: 4 For this reason, you mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, to the unpeopled wastes and to the towns where no one is living, from which the goods have been taken and which have been put to shame by the rest of the nations who are round about:
  • Ezek 36:8 : 8 But you, O mountains of Israel, will put out your branches and give your fruit to my people Israel; for they are ready to come.
  • Mic 6:2 : 2 Give ear, O you mountains, to the Lord's cause, and take note, you bases of the earth: for the Lord has a cause against his people, and he will take it up with Israel.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 36:1-4
    4 verses
    86%

    1 And you, son of man, be a prophet about the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord:

    2 This is what the Lord has said: Because your hater has said against you, Aha! and, The old waste places are our heritage, we have taken them:

    3 For this cause be a prophet, and say, This is what the Lord has said: Because, even because they have been glad over you and put you to shame on every side, because you have become a heritage for the rest of the nations, and you are taken up on the lips of talkers and in the evil talk of the people:

    4 For this reason, you mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, to the unpeopled wastes and to the towns where no one is living, from which the goods have been taken and which have been put to shame by the rest of the nations who are round about:

  • Ezek 6:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    2 Son of man, let your face be turned to the mountains of Israel, and be a prophet to them, and say,

  • 6 For this cause be a prophet about the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, This is what the Lord has said: Truly, in my bitter feeling and in my wrath I have said these things, because you have undergone the shame of the nations:

  • 4 And your altars will be made waste, and your sun-images will be broken: and I will have your dead men placed before your images.

  • Ezek 35:7-9
    3 verses
    80%

    7 And I will make Mount Seir a cause for wonder and a waste, cutting off from it all comings and goings.

    8 I will make his mountains full of those who have been put to death; in your valleys and in all your water-streams men will be falling by the sword.

    9 I will make you waste for ever, and your towns will be unpeopled: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • Ezek 35:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3 And say to it, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am against you, O Mount Seir, and my hand will be stretched out against you, and I will make you a waste and a cause for wonder.

    4 I will make your towns unpeopled and you will be a waste; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • Ezek 21:2-3
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    2 Son of man, let your face be turned to Jerusalem, let your words be dropped in the direction of her holy place, and be a prophet against the land of Israel;

    3 And say to the land of Israel, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, and I will take my sword out of its cover, cutting off from you the upright and the evil.

  • Ezek 6:6-7
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    6 In all your living-places the towns will become broken walls, and the high places made waste; so that your altars may be broken down and made waste, and your images broken and ended, and so that your sun-images may be cut down and your works rubbed out.

    7 And the dead will be falling down among you, and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

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    27 This is what you are to say to them: The Lord has said, By my life, truly, those who are in the waste places will be put to the sword, and him who is in the open field I will give to the beasts for their food, and those who are in the strong places and in holes in the rocks will come to their death by disease.

    28 And I will make the land a waste and a cause of wonder, and the pride of her strength will come to an end; and the mountains of Israel will be made waste so that no one will go through.

  • Ezek 6:11-14
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    11 This is what the Lord has said: Give blows with your hand, stamping with your foot, and say, O sorrow! because of all the evil and disgusting ways of the children of Israel: for death will overtake them by the sword and through need of food and by disease.

    12 He who is far away will come to his death by disease; he who is near will be put to the sword; he who is shut up will come to his death through need of food; and I will give full effect to my passion against them.

    13 And you will be certain that I am the Lord, when their dead men are stretched among their images round about their altars on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every branching tree, and under every thick oak-tree, the places where they made sweet smells to all their images.

    14 And my hand will be stretched out against them, making the land waste and unpeopled, from the waste land to Riblah, through all their living-places: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • 17 Or if I send a sword against that land, and say, Sword, go through the land, cutting off from it man and beast:

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    20 So that the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven and the beasts of the field and everything moving on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth, will be shaking before me, and the mountains will be overturned and the high places will come down, and every wall will come falling down to the earth.

    21 And I will send to all my mountains for a sword against him, says the Lord: every man's sword will be against his brother.

  • 12 And you will see that I the Lord have had knowledge of all the bitter things which you have said against the mountains of Israel, saying, They have been made waste, they are given to us to take for our heritage.

  • 3 I will give your wealth and all your stores to be taken away in war without a price, because of your sins in every part of your land.

  • 8 For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am sending a sword on you, cutting off from you man and beast.

  • Ezek 39:4-5
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    4 On the mountains of Israel you will come down, you and all your forces and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to cruel birds of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be their food.

    5 You will come down in the open field: for I have said it, says the Lord.

  • 8 You have been fearing the sword, and I will send the sword on you, says the Lord.

  • 5 And I will put your flesh on the mountains, and make the valleys full of your blood.

  • Mic 6:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 Give ear now to the words of the Lord: Up! put forward your cause before the mountains, let your voice be sounding among the hills.

    2 Give ear, O you mountains, to the Lord's cause, and take note, you bases of the earth: for the Lord has a cause against his people, and he will take it up with Israel.

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    14 This is what the Lord has said: Because you were glad over my land when it was a waste, so will I do to you:

    15 You will become a waste, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • 15 I will make waste mountains and hills, drying up all their plants; and I will make rivers dry, and pools dry land.

  • 8 But you, O mountains of Israel, will put out your branches and give your fruit to my people Israel; for they are ready to come.

  • 25 And there will be rivers and streams of water on every tall mountain and on every high hill, in the day when great numbers are put to the sword, when the towers come down.

  • 4 And the mountains will be turned to water under him, and the deep valleys will be broken open, like wax before the fire, like waters flowing down a slope.

  • 10 And they will take no wood out of the field or have any cut down in the woods; for they will make their fires of the instruments of war: and they will take by force the property of those who took their property, and go off with the goods of those who took their goods, says the Lord.

  • 6 For this is what the Lord of armies has said: Let trees be cut down and an earthwork be placed against Jerusalem: sorrow on the false town! inside her there is nothing but cruel ways.

  • 10 You will come to your death by the sword; and I will be your judge in the land of Israel; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • 2 And turning you round, I will be your guide, and make you come up from the inmost parts of the north; I will make you come on to the mountains of Israel:

  • 25 See, I am against you, says the Lord, O mountain of destruction, causing the destruction of all the earth: and my hand will be stretched out on you, rolling you down from the rocks, and making you a burned mountain.

  • 2 You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree:

  • 13 This is what the Lord has said: Because they say to you, You, O land, are the destruction of men, causing loss of children to your nation;

  • 8 And I will make the land a waste because they have done evil, says the Lord.

  • 13 See, I am against you, you who are living on the rock of the valley, says the Lord; you who say, Who will come down against us? or who will get into our houses?