1. The Lord God said:
2. Ezekiel, son of man, face the hills of Israel and tell them:
3. Listen, you mountains and hills, and every valley and gorge! I, the Lord, am about to turn against you and crush all the places where foreign gods are worshipped.
4. Every altar will be smashed, and in front of the idols I will put to death the people who worship them.
5. Dead bodies and bones will be lying around the idols and the altars.
6. Every town in Israel will be destroyed to make sure that each shrine, idol, and altar is smashed—everything the Israelites made will be a pile of ruins.
7. All over the country, your people will die. And those who survive will know that I, the Lord, did these things.
8. I will let some of the people live through this punishment, but I will scatter them among the nations,
9. where they will be prisoners. And when they think of me, they will realize that they disgraced me by rebelling and by worshipping idols. They will hate themselves for the evil things they did,