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CHAPTERS V., VT. 27
had beheld their infidelity to the true God, their God.
“ So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction
and an astonishment unto the nations that are round
about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in
anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I Jehovah
have spoken it.” (Yer. 15.) The heathen themselves
were astonished; for they had no notion of a national
deity so dealing with the people who professed that
worship. “ When I shall send upon them the evil
arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction,
and which I will send to destroy you: and I will
increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff
of bread : so will I send upon you famine and evil
beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence
and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring
the sword upon thee. I Jehovah have spoken it.”
(Ver. 16, 17.)

CHAPTER VI.

Chapter vi. shews that God takes account of all the
scenes of their idolatrous evil throughout the land, though
we have seen Jerusalem to have a bad pre-eminence. Hence
Ezekiel is here commanded to look toward “ the moun­
tains of Israel.” “ And the word of Jehovah came unto
me saying, Son of man, set thy face toward the moun­
tains of Israel, and prophesy against them, and say, Ye
mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jeho­
vah: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to the mountains,
and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Be­
hold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and 1 will