Ezekiel 38

CHAPTER 38

Prophecy Against Gog

¹And the word of Yahweh came to me saying,

²“Son of man, set your face toward ^aGog of the land of ^bMagog, the ^1cchief prince of ^dMeshech and ^eTubal, and prophesy against him

³and say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, ¹chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.

⁴“I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will ^abring you out, and all your military force, ^bhorses and horsemen, all of them ¹magnificently dressed, a great assembly with large shield and shield, all of them ²wielding swords;

^5aPersia, ^1bEthiopia, and ^cPut with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

^6aGomer with all its troops; ^bBeth-togarmah from the remote parts of the north with all its troops—many peoples with you.

⁷“^aBe prepared, and prepare yourself, you and all your assembly that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them.

⁸“^aAfter many days you will be mustered; in the last years you will come into the land that is ¹restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been ^bgathered from many peoples to the ^cmountains of Israel which had been a continual waste; but ²its people were brought out from the peoples, and they are ^dliving securely, all of them.

⁹“And you will go up; you will come ^alike a storm; you will be like a ^bcloud covering the land, you and all your troops and many peoples with you.”

¹⁰‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “It will be in that day, that ¹thoughts will come into your heart, and you will ^adevise an evil plan,

¹¹and you will say, ‘I will go up against the land of ^1aunwalled villages. I will go against those who ^bdwell quietly, that live securely, all of them living without walls and having no bars or gates,

¹²to ^acapture spoil and to seize plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places, which are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered from the nations, who have acquired cattle and property, who live at the ¹center of the world.’

¹³“^aSheba and ^bDedan and the merchants of ^cTarshish with all its ¹young lions will say to you, ‘Have you come to capture spoil? Have you assembled your assembly to seize plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to capture great ^dspoil?’”’

¹⁴“Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “On that day when My people Israel are ^aliving securely, will you not know it?

¹⁵“^aYou will come from your place out of the remote parts of the north, you and numerous peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great assembly and a numerous military force;

¹⁶and you will come up against My people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. It will be in the last days that I will bring you against My land so that the nations may ^aknow Me when I ^bprove Myself holy through you before their eyes, O Gog.”

¹⁷‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days by the hand of My slaves the prophets of Israel, who ^aprophesied in those days for many years that I would bring you against them?

¹⁸“And it will be in that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” declares Lord Yahweh, “that My wrath will mount up in My ^aanger.

¹⁹“In My ^azeal and in My blazing fury I have spoken that on that day there will surely be a great ^1bearthquake in the land of Israel.

²⁰“^aAnd the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the beasts of the field, all the creeping things that creep on the ground, and all the men who are on the face of the earth will quake at My presence; the ^bmountains also will be pulled down, the steep pathways will fall, and every wall will fall to the earth.

²¹“And I will call for a ^asword against ¹him on all My mountains,” declares Lord Yahweh. “^bEvery man’s sword will be against his brother.

²²“With pestilence and with blood I will enter into ^ajudgment with him; and I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the numerous peoples who are with him, ¹a torrential rain, with ^bhailstones, fire, and brimstone.

²³“And I will magnify Myself, I will manifest Myself as holy, and I will ^amake Myself known in the sight of many nations; and they will know that I am Yahweh.” ’