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Ezekiel claps once and stamps his foot in anguish before the desolate high places.
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Ezekiel 6:11-14

Alas for the land

Against the Mountains and High Places · Ezekiel 6

Story guide: The gesture is lament, not celebration; bodily death is not depicted.

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11Thus says the Lord GOD: Strike your hand and stamp your foot, and say, “Alas!” because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

12The one far away will die by pestilence, and the one nearby will fall by the sword, and the one left and besieged will die by famine; and I will spend my wrath on them.

13Then you will know that I am Yahweh, when their slain lie among their idols, all around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and under every leafy terebinth—the places where they offered a pleasing aroma to all their idols.

14So I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land a desolation and a waste, from the wilderness toward Diblath, throughout all their settlements. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.

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