39“And you, son of man,^a prophesy against Gog, and you must say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Look! I am against you Gog, the head^b leader of Meshech and Tubal, ²and I will turn you around, and I will drag you along, and I will bring you up from the remote areas of the north, and I will bring you against the mountains of Israel, ³and I will strike your bow from your left hand,^c and your arrows from your right hand^d I will cause to fall. ⁴On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all of your troops, and the peoples who are with you, to birds^e of prey, birds of every wing,^f and animals of the field I will give you as food. ⁵On the surface of the field you will fall, for I myself^g have spoken,” declares^h the Lord Yahweh. ⁶“And I will send fire against Magog and among the people inhabiting the coastlands in safety,ⁱ and they will know that I am Yahweh. ⁷And my holy name^j I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let the name of my holiness be profaned anymore, and the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the holy one in Israel. ⁸Look! it is coming, and it will happen,” declares^k the Lord Yahweh. “It is the day about which I have spoken.^l

⁹“‘“And the inhabitants of the towns^m of Israel will go out, and they will set ablaze, and they will kindle a fire with a weaponⁿ and a small shield and a shield,^o with a bow and with arrows, and with hand clubs^p and with spears,^q and so they will light a fire with them, a fire lasting seven years.^r ¹⁰And they will not carry trees from the field, and they will not chop wood from the forests, for with the weapons^s they will light a fire; and they will plunder those plundering them, and they will plunder those plundering them,” ’ declares^t the Lord Yahweh.

¹¹“ ‘ “And then^u on that day I will give to Gog a grave there^v in Israel, The Valley of the Travelers, east of the sea,^w and it will block^x the travelers and Gog and all of his hordes^y they will bury there, and they will call it the Valley of Hamon-Gog.^z ¹²And the house of Israel will bury them for seven months to cleanse the land. ¹³All of the people of the land will bury them, and it will be an honor for them on the day when I appear,” ’ declares^a the Lord Yahweh. ¹⁴‘“And they will set apart men to continually^b go through the land burying the travelers,^c the ones left over on the surface of the land to cleanse it; for the whole of^d seven months they will explore it. ¹⁵And the ones going through, they will go through within the land, and if anyone sees the bones of a person, then he will build beside it a sign to remain until the buriers have buried him in the Valley of Hamon-Gog.^e ¹⁶And furthermore the name of the city there is Hamonah,^f and thus they will cleanse the land.” ’

Read in Logos

Footnotes

aOr “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
bOr “chief”
cLiterally “the hand of left your”
dLiterally “the hand of right your”
eHebrew “bird”
fOr “kind”
gLiterally “I, I”
hLiterally “declaration of”
iLiterally “with confidence/trust”
jLiterally “the name of my holiness”
kLiterally “declaration of”
lLiterally “which I have spoken of”
mOr “cities”
nOr “weapons”
oOr “shields and bucklers”; cf. NJPS
pLiterally “with club of hand”
qHebrew “spear”
rLiterally “a fire of seven years”
sHebrew “weapon”
tLiterally “declaration of”
uLiterally “and it will happen”
vLiterally “a place there of a grave”
wThat is, the Dead Sea
xLiterally “blocking”
yHebrew “horde”
zLiterally “Gog’s Multitude”
aLiterally “declaration of”
bLiterally “men of continuity/men who regularly”
cIn a negative sense = “invaders”
dLiterally “from the end of”
eOr “Gog’s multitude”
fThat is, “Multitude”