The LORD told Ezekiel, a Jewish priest deported from Israel to Iraq, “Human, I want you to look westward toward the hills of Israel and deliver the following message:
Hills of Israel, listen because the LORD God has some words for you. Mountains and hills, I’m coming. Steep gorges and gentle valleys, I’m coming. I’m bringing a sword and I’m coming to wipe out those pagan shrines built high on your hilltops.I’ll smash your altars, shatter your incense stands, and throw your dead at the feet of your idols.I’ll lay the dead people of Israel in front of their idols and scatter their ashes around their pagan altars.It doesn’t matter where you live. I’m coming to grind your towns into stones and destroy your hilltop shrines, altars, idols, incense stands, and anything else I can break.When your people start falling dead in the dirt, you’ll finally get the message: I am the LORD. (Ezekiel 6:1-7, The Casual English Bible).
