Judgment against Idolatry (Deuteronomy 4:15–31; Deuteronomy 12:29–32)
1 DRA And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: BSB BSB: And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2 DRA Son of man, set thy face towards the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them. BSB BSB: “Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.
3 DRA And say: Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus Faith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the rocks, and the valleys: Behold, I will bring upon you the sword, and I will destroy your high places. BSB BSB: You are to say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.
4 DRA And I will throw down your altars, and your idols shall be broken in pieces: and I will cast down your slain before your idols. BSB BSB: Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols.
5 DRA And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before your idols: and I will scatter Sour bones round about your altars, BSB BSB: I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.
6 DRA In all your dwelling places. The cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be thrown down, and destroyed, and your altars shall be abolished, and shall be broken in pieces: and your idols shall be no more, and your temples shall be destroyed, and your works shall be defaced. BSB BSB: Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.
7 DRA And the slain shall fall in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am the Lord. BSB BSB: The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.
A Remnant to Be Blessed 8 DRA And I will leave in you some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when I shall have scattered you, through the countries. BSB BSB: Yet I will leave a remnant, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands.
9 DRA And they that are saved of you shall remember me amongst the nations to which they are carried captives: because I have broken their heart that was faithless, and revolted from me: and their eyes that went a fornicating after their idols: and they shall be displeased with themselves because of the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. BSB BSB: Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.
10 DRA And they shall know that I the Lord have not spoken in vain that I would do this evil to them. BSB BSB: And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not declare in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them.
11 DRA Thus saith the Lord God: Strike with thy hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say: Alas, for all the abominations of the evils of the house of Israel: for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine and by the pestilence. BSB BSB: This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by sword and famine and plague.
12 DRA He that is far off shall die of the pestilence: and he that is near, shall fall by the sword: and he that remaineth, and is besieged, shall die by the famine: and I will accomplish my indignation upon them. BSB BSB: He who is far off will die by the plague, he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains will die by famine. So I will vent My fury upon them.
13 DRA And you shall know that I am the Lord, when your slain shall be amongst your idols, round about your altars, in every high hill, and on all the tops of mountains, and under every woody tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they burnt sweet smelling frankincense to all their idols. BSB BSB: Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
14 DRA And I will stretch forth my hand upon them: and I will make the land desolate, and abandoned from the desert of Deblatha in all their dwelling places: and they shall know that I am the Lord. BSB BSB: I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”