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.” ’

¹⁷“And you, son of man,^g thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Say to all kinds of birds and animals of the field,^h “Be gathered, come be gathered from everywhereⁱ to my sacrifice that I am sacrificing for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, and you will eat flesh, and you will drink blood. ¹⁸Flesh of warriors you will eat, and the blood of leaders of the land you will drink; rams, young rams and goats, bulls, and the fattened animals of Bashan—all of them! ¹⁹And you will eat fat until you are satiated,^j and you will drink blood until you are drunk^k from my sacrifice that I sacrifice for you, ²⁰and you will be satisfied at my table with horse and horsemen and warriors and every man of war,” ’ declares^l the Lord Yahweh. ²¹“And I will display my glory among the nations, and all of the nations will see my judgment that I have executed and my hand that I have laid upon them.

²²“And the house of Israel will know that I am Yahweh their God from that day and beyond,

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Footnotes

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”
gOr “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
hLiterally “to bird of every wind and to every animal of the field”
iLiterally “all around”
jLiterally “satiation/gluttony”
kLiterally “to drunkenness”
lLiterally “declaration of”