Quotes about Judgment
A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.
— Ezekiel 5:12
I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”
— Ezekiel 5:17
“Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.
— Ezekiel 6:2
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.
— Ezekiel 6:3
Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols.
— Ezekiel 6:4
I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.
— Ezekiel 6:5
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.
— Ezekiel 6:6
The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.
— Ezekiel 6:7
And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not declare in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them.
— Ezekiel 6:10
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.
— Ezekiel 6:11
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.
— Ezekiel 6:12
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.’”
— Ezekiel 6:14