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Ezekiel 38:9-18

Ezekiel 38:9-18 CSB

You, all of your troops, and many peoples with you will advance, coming like a thunderstorm; you will be like a cloud covering the land. “ ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan. You will say, “I will advance against a land of open villages; I will come against a tranquil people who are living securely,  all of them living without walls and without bars or gates”   —  in order to seize spoil and carry off plunder,  to turn your hand against ruins now inhabited and against a people gathered from the nations, who have been acquiring cattle and possessions and who live at the center of the world. Sheba  and Dedan  and the merchants of Tarshish  with all its rulers  will ask you, “Have you come to seize spoil? Have you mobilized your assembly to carry off plunder, to make off with silver and gold, to take cattle and possessions, to seize plenty of spoil? ” ’ “Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day when my people Israel are dwelling securely,  will you not know this and come from your place in the remotest parts of the north   — you and many peoples with you, who are all riding horses — a huge assembly, a powerful army? You will advance against my people Israel like a cloud covering the land. It will happen in the last days, Gog, that I will bring you against my land so that the nations may know me, when I demonstrate my holiness through you in their sight.  “ ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: Are you the one I spoke about in former times through my servants, the prophets of Israel, who for years prophesied in those times that I would bring you against them? Now on that day, the day when Gog comes against the land of Israel — this is the declaration of the Lord GOD  — my wrath will flare up.