5. I’ll throw the Israelites’ corpses in front of their idols,and I’ll scatter your bones all around your altars.
6. Wherever you live,cities will be in ruins, shrines made desolate,turned into utter ruin.Your altars will be punishedand then broken down.Your idols will be demolished,your incense altars shattered,and all your works wiped out.
7. The slain will fall among you,and you will know that I am the Lord.
8. But I will spare a few.Some of you will escape the nations’ swordswhen you are scattered throughout the lands.
9. Your fugitives will remember mein the nations to which they’ve been banished,how I was crushed when their roving hearts turned away from me,and their roving eyes went after their idols.They will loathe themselvesfor their treacherous acts and detestable practices,
10. and they will know that I am the Lord.Not in vain have I threatened to bring this evil against them.