Ezekiel
38
- The word of the LORD came to me:
- "Son of man, set your face against
Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal; prophesy
against him
- and say: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD
says: I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.
- I will turn you around, put hooks in your
jaws and bring you out with your whole army -- your horses, your horsemen
fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing
their swords.
- Persia, Cush and Put will be with them,
all with shields and helmets,
- also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth
Togarmah from the far north with all its troops -- the many nations with you.
- "'Get ready; be prepared, you and all
the hordes gathered about you, and take command of them.
- After many days you will be called to arms.
In future years you will invade a land that has recovered from war, whose
people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had
long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and now all
of them live in safety.
- You and all your troops and the many nations
with you will go up, advancing like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering
the land.
- "'This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
On that day thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil
scheme.
- You will say, "I will invade a land
of unwalled villages; I will attack a peaceful and unsuspecting people --
all of them living without walls and without gates and bars.
- I will plunder and loot and turn my hand
against the resettled ruins and the people gathered from the nations, rich
in livestock and goods, living at the center of the land."
- Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish
and all her villages will say to you, "Have you come to plunder? Have
you gathered your hordes to loot, to carry off silver and gold, to take away
livestock and goods and to seize much plunder ?" '
- "Therefore, son of man, prophesy and
say to Gog: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: In that day, when my people
Israel are living in safety, will you not take notice of it ?
- You will come from your place in the far
north, you and many nations with you, all of them riding on horses, a great
horde, a mighty army.
- You will advance against my people Israel
like a cloud that covers the land. In days to come, O Gog, I will bring you
against my land, so that the nations may know me when I show myself holy through
you before their eyes.
- "'This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
Are you not the one I spoke of in former days by my servants the prophets
of Israel? At that time they prophesied for years that I would bring you against
them.
- This is what will happen in that day: When
Gog attacks the land of Israel, my hot anger will be aroused, declares the
Sovereign LORD.
- In my zeal and fiery wrath I declare that
at that time there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.
- The fish of the sea, the birds of the air,
the beasts of the field, every creature that moves along the ground, and all
the people on the face of the earth will tremble at my presence. The mountains
will be overturned, the cliffs will crumble and every wall will fall to the
ground.
- I will summon a sword against Gog on all
my mountains, declares the Sovereign LORD. Every man's sword will be against
his brother.
- I will execute judgment upon him with plague
and bloodshed; I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones and burning sulfur
on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.
- And so I will show my greatness and my holiness,
and I will make myself known in the sight of many nations. Then they will
know that I am the LORD.'
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