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,