Ezekiel 39

Gog’s Armies Destroyed

39“And ^ayou, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, ¹the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal; ²and I will ^bturn you around and lead you on, ^cbringing you up from the far north, and bring you against the mountains of Israel. ³Then I will knock the bow out of your left hand, and cause the arrows to fall out of your right hand. ^4dYou shall ²fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; ^eI will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. ⁵You shall ³fall on ⁴the open field; for I have spoken,” says the Lord God. ^6f“And I will send fire on Magog and on those who live ⁵in security in ^gthe coastlands. Then they shall know that I am the Lord. ^7hSo I will make My holy name known in the midst of My people Israel, and I will not let them ⁱprofane My holy name anymore. ^jThen the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. ^8kSurely it is coming, and it shall be done,” says the Lord God. “This is the day ^lof which I have spoken.

⁹“Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and bucklers, the bows and arrows, the ⁶javelins and spears; and they will make fires with them for seven years. ¹⁰They will not take wood from the field nor cut down any from the forests, because they will make fires with the weapons; ^mand they will plunder those who plundered them, and pillage those who pillaged them,” says the Lord God.

The Burial of Gog

¹¹“It will come to pass in that day that I will give Gog a burial place there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea; and it will obstruct travelers, because there they will bury Gog and all his multitude. Therefore they will call it the Valley of ⁷Hamon Gog. ¹²For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, ⁿin order to cleanse the land. ¹³Indeed all the people of the land will be burying, and they will gain ^orenown for it on the day that ^pI am glorified,” says the Lord God. ¹⁴“They will set apart men regularly employed, with the help of ⁸a search party, to pass through the land and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, in order ^qto cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search. ¹⁵The search party will pass through the land; and when anyone sees a man’s bone, he shall ⁹set up a marker by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog. ¹⁶The name of the city will also be ¹Hamonah. Thus they shall ^rcleanse the land.” ’

A Triumphant Festival

¹⁷“And as for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God, ^s‘Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field:

^t“Assemble yourselves and come;

Gather together from all sides to My ^usacrificial meal

Which I am sacrificing for you,

A great sacrificial meal ^von the mountains of Israel,

That you may eat flesh and drink blood.

^18wYou shall eat the flesh of the mighty,

Drink the blood of the princes of the earth,

Of rams and lambs,

Of goats and bulls,

All of them ^xfatlings of Bashan.

¹⁹You shall eat fat till you are full,

And drink blood till you are drunk,

At My sacrificial meal

Which I am sacrificing for you.

^20yYou shall be filled at My table

With horses and riders,

^zWith mighty men

And with all the men of war,” says the Lord God.

Israel Restored to the Land

^21a“I will set My glory among the nations; all the nations shall see My judgment which I have executed, and ^bMy hand which I have laid on them. ^22cSo the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day forward. ^23dThe Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they were unfaithful to Me, therefore ^eI hid My face from them. I ^fgave them into the hand of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword. ^24gAccording to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I have dealt with them, and hidden My face from them.” ’

²⁵“Therefore thus says the Lord God: ^h‘Now I will bring back the captives of Jacob, and have mercy on the ⁱwhole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name—^26jafter they have borne their shame, and all their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, when they ^kdwelt safely in their own land and no one made them afraid. ^27lWhen I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and I ^mam hallowed in them in the sight of many nations, ²⁸ⁿthen they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who sent them into captivity among the nations, but also brought them back to their land, and left none of them ²captive any longer. ^29oAnd I will not hide My face from them anymore; for I shall have ^ppoured out My Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord God.”