Ezekiel 39
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1You, human one, prophesy about Gog and say, The LORD God proclaims: I challenge you, Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal! 2I will turn you about, drag you out, and bring you out of the far north, and I will bring you to Israel’s mountains. 3I will strike your bow from your left hand, and make your arrows fall from your right. 4You will fall on Israel’s mountains, you, all your troops, and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to the birds of prey, to every kind of bird and wild animal as food. 5You will fall on the open field, for I have spoken! This is what the LORD God says! 6I will send fire on Magog and on those who live securely in the coastlands, and they will know that I am the LORD. 7I will make known my holy name among my people Israel. They will never again degrade my holy name, and the nations will know that I, the LORD, am holy in Israel. 8Look, it has come! It has happened! This is what the LORD God says. This is the day that I spoke about.
9Those who live in Israel’s cities will go out and kindle a fire with the weapons—shield and buckler, bow and arrow, spear and lance. They will burn them with fire for seven years. 10They won’t gather wood from the field or chop down trees from the forest, because they will be able to keep the fire burning with the weapons. So they will take plunder and seize loot. This is what the LORD says.
11On that day, I will assign Gog a place for burial in Israel in the Travelers’ Valley east of the sea. It will block the travelers’ way, because Gog and all of his horde will be buried there. It will be called Hamon-gog#39.11 Or horde of Gog Valley. 12For seven months, the house of Israel will bury them in order to cleanse the land. 13All the people of the land will take part in the burial, so they will make a name for themselves on the day that I glorify myself. This is what the LORD God says. 14They will appoint people who will continually cross through the land and bury#39.14 LXX; MT adds the travelers. the human remains that are left on the surface of the ground in order to purify it. They will begin their search at the end of seven months. 15As the travelers cross through the land, when they see a human bone, they will set up a marker next to it until the gravediggers bury it in Hamon-gog Valley 16(the name of the city is Hamonah). So they will purify the land.
17And you, human one, the LORD God proclaims: Say to the birds of prey, to every kind of bird and every wild animal: Assemble and come! Come together from all around for the sacrifice that I make for you, a great sacrifice on Israel’s mountains! You will eat flesh and drink blood. 18You will eat the flesh of warriors and drink the blood of the princes of the earth: rams, lambs, goats, bulls, all fattened animals from Bashan. 19Gorge yourselves on their fat, and get drunk on their blood, from the sacrifice that I have made for you. 20Satisfy yourselves at my table with horses and riders, mighty men and every warrior. This is what the LORD God says! 21When I glorify myself among the nations, all the nations will understand the judgments that I executed and the power that I used among them. 22And the house of Israel will know that I, the LORD, am their God, from that day on. 23The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile because of their guilt. Because they rebelled against me, I hid my face from them. When I handed them over to their enemies, all of them fell by the sword. 24I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their transgressions and hid my face from them.
25So the LORD God proclaims: Now I will bring back the captives of Jacob. I will have compassion on the whole house of Israel and defend my holy name. 26They will forget their humiliation and all their rebellions against me when they live securely on their fertile land with no one to frighten them. 27When I bring them back from the peoples and gather them from the lands of their enemies, I will be made holy through them in the sight of the many nations. 28They will know that I am the LORD their God when, after I made them go into exile among the nations, I gathered them to their land. I won’t leave any of them behind. 29When I pour my Spirit upon the house of Israel, I won’t hide my face from them again. This is what the LORD God says.
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