Ezekiel 39:1–16

Prophecy against Gog—Invaders Destroyed

¹“And ^ayou, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, ‘Thus says the Lord ¹God, “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, ²prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal;

²and I will turn you around, drive you on, take you up from the remotest parts of the north and bring you against the mountains of Israel.

³“I will ^astrike your bow from your left hand and dash down your arrows from your right hand.

⁴“You will ^afall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; I will give you as ^bfood to every ¹kind of predatory bird and beast of the field.

⁵“You will fall on the ¹open field; for it is I who have spoken,” declares the Lord God.

⁶“And I will send ^afire upon Magog and those who inhabit the ^bcoastlands in safety; and they will know that I am the Lord.

⁷“My ^aholy name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel; and I will not let My holy name be ^bprofaned anymore. And the ^cnations will know that I am the Lord, the ^dHoly One in Israel.

⁸“Behold, it is coming and it shall be done,” declares the Lord God. “That is the day of which I have spoken.

⁹“Then those who inhabit the cities of Israel will ^ago out and make ^bfires with the weapons and burn them, both shields and bucklers, bows and arrows, war clubs and spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them.

¹⁰“They will not take wood from the field or gather firewood from the forests, for they will make fires with the weapons; and they will take the spoil of those who despoiled them and seize the ^aplunder of those who plundered them,” declares the Lord God.

¹¹“On that day I will give Gog a burial ground there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea, and it will block off those who would pass by. So they will bury Gog there with all his ¹horde, and they will call it the valley of ²Hamon-gog.

¹²“For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to ^acleanse the land.

¹³“Even all the people of the land will bury them; and it will be ¹to their ^arenown on the day that I ^bglorify Myself,” declares the Lord God.

¹⁴“They will set apart men who will constantly pass through the land, ^aburying those who were passing through, even those left on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search.

¹⁵“As those who pass through the land pass through and anyone sees a man’s bone, then he will ¹set up a marker by it until the buriers have buried it in the valley of ²Hamon-gog.

¹⁶“And even the name of the city will be Hamonah. So they will cleanse the land.” ’