Ezekiel 38–39

38And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ^2aSon of man, ^bset thy face against ^acGog, the land of ^cdMagog, ^||athe chief prince of ^eMeshech and ^eTubal, ^aand prophesy against him, ³And say, Thus saith the Lord God; ^aBehold, ^fI am against thee, O ^cGog, ^athe chief prince of ^eMeshech and ^eTubal: ^4gAnd I will turn thee back, and ^hput hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and ⁱall thine army, horses and ⁱhorsemen, all of them ^kclothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with ^lbucklers and ^lshields, all of them handling swords: ^5mPersia, ⁿEthiopia, and ^||mLibya with them; all of them with ^mshield and ^mhelmet: ^6oGomer, and all his ^pbands; the house of ^qTogarmah ^rof ^sthe north quarters, and all his ^pbands: and ^rmany people with thee. ^7tBe thou prepared, and ^uprepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them. ^8vAfter many days ^wthou shalt be visited: ^vin the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is ^xgathered out of many people, against ^ythe mountains of Israel, which ^zhave been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall ^adwell safely all of them. ⁹Thou shalt ascend and come ^blike a ^cstorm, thou shalt be ^dlike a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all ^ethy bands, ^eand many people with thee.

¹⁰Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things ^fcome into thy mind, and thou shalt ^||think an evil thought: ¹¹And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of ^gunwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, ^ahthat dwell ^||safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and ^hhaving neither bars nor gates, ^12†iTo take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon ^jthe desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are ^kgathered out of the nations, which have gotten ^lcattle and goods, that dwell in the ^†midst of the land. ^13mSheba, and ⁿDedan, and ^othe merchants of Tarshish, with all ^pthe young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come ⁱto take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company ⁱto take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away ^lcattle and goods, ⁱto take a great spoil? ¹⁴Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord God; ^qIn that day when my people of Israel ^adwelleth safely, ^rshalt thou not know it? ¹⁵And ^sthou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and ^tmany people with thee, all of them ^uriding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army: ¹⁶And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, ^das a cloud to cover the land; it shall be ^vin the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, ^wwhen I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, ^xbefore their eyes.

¹⁷Thus saith the Lord God; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time ^†by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them? ¹⁸And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord God, that ^ymy fury shall come up in my face. ¹⁹For ^yin my jealousy and in ^zthe fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely ^qin that day there shall be ^aa great shaking in the land of Israel; ²⁰So that ^bcthe fishes of the sea, and ^bcthe fowls of the heaven, and ^bthe beasts of the field, and all ^ccreeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and ^dthe mountains shall be thrown down, and ^ethe ^||steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. ²¹And I will ^fgcall for ^gha sword against him ⁱthroughout all my mountains, saith the Lord God: ^jevery man’s sword shall be against his brother. ²²And ^kI will plead against him with ^lmpestilence and with ^lblood; and ⁿI will rain upon him, and upon his ^obands, and upon ^othe many people that are with him, ^pan overflowing rain, and ^pqgreat hailstones, ⁿfire, and ^nrbrimstone. ²³Thus ^swill I magnify myself, and ^stsanctify myself; and ^stuI will be known in the eyes of many nations, ^vand they shall know that I am the Lord.

39Therefore, ^athou son of man, ^aprophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; ^aBehold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: ^2bAnd I will turn thee back, and ^||cleave but the sixth part of thee, and ^dwill cause thee to come up from ^†the north parts, and will bring thee upon ^ethe mountains of Israel: ³And ^fI will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand. ^4gThou shalt fall upon ^ethe mountains of Israel, thou, and ^hall thy bands, ^hand the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto ⁱthe ravenous birds of every ^†sort, and to ^kthe beasts of the field ^†to be devoured. ⁵Thou shalt fall upon ^†the open field: for ^lI have spoken it, saith the Lord God. ⁶And ^mI will send a fire on ⁿMagog, and among them that ^odwell ^||carelessly in ^pthe isles: ^qand they shall know that I am the Lord. ^7rSo will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not ^slet them pollute my holy name any more: and ^qtthe heathen shall know that I am ^uthe Lord, the Holy One in Israel.

^8vBehold, it is come, and ^vwit is done, saith the Lord God; this is the day ^xwhereof I have spoken. ⁹And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and ^xxshall set on fire and ^yburn ^zthe weapons, both ^zzthe shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the ^||handstaves, and the spears, and they shall ^||burn them with fire seven years: ¹⁰So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn ^zthe weapons with fire: and ^athey shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord God. ¹¹And it shall come to pass in ^bthat day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the ^||noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of ^||Hamon-gog. ¹²And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, ^cthat they may cleanse the land. ¹³Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them ^da renown the day that ^eI shall be glorified, saith the Lord God. ¹⁴And they shall sever out ^†men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury ^fwith the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, ^cto cleanse it: after the end of ^gseven months shall they search. ¹⁵And ^fthe passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he ^†set up ^ha sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in ⁱthe valley of Hamon-gog. ¹⁶And also the name of the city shall be ^||Hamonah. ^cThus shall they cleanse the land.

¹⁷And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God; ^jSpeak ^†kunto every feathered fowl, and ^kto every beast of the field, ^jlAssemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to ^mmy ^||sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice ^kupon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. ¹⁸ⁿYe shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of ^†goats, of ^obullocks, all of them fatlings ^oof Bashan. ¹⁹And ye shall eat fat ^ptill ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, ^mof my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. ²⁰Thus ye shall be filled at my table ⁿwith ^qhorses and chariots, ⁿwith mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord God. ²¹And ^eI will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see ^rmy judgment that I have executed, and ^rmy hand that I have laid upon them. ^22sSo the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from ^bthat day ^tand forward. ²³And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore ^uhid I my face from them, and ^vgave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword. ^24wAccording to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and ^uhid my face from them.

²⁵Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Now will I ^xbring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon ^ythe whole house of Israel, and ^zwill be jealous for my holy name; ²⁶After that ^athey have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they ^bdwelt safely in their land, and ^cnone made them afraid. ²⁷When I have brought them again from the people, and ^degathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and ^dfam sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; ²⁸Then ^gshall they know that I am the Lord their God, ^†which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have ^hgathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there. ²⁹ⁱNeither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have ^kpoured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God.