1 As for you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say: Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord!
2 Thus says the Lord God: Because the enemy said about you, “Ha! the ancient heights have become our possession,”
3 therefore prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord God: because you have been ridiculed and hounded on all sides for becoming a possession for the remaining nations and have become a byword and a popular jeer,
4 therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, plundered and mocked by the nations remaining around you: