1‘Son of man, prophesy against Gog. Tell him, “The LORD and King says, ‘Gog, I am against you. You are the chief prince of Meshek and Tubal.2But I will turn you round. I will drag you along. I will bring you from the far north. I will send you against the mountains of Israel.3Then I will knock your bow out of your left hand. I will make your arrows drop from your right hand.4You will fall dead on the mountains of Israel. You and all your troops will die there. So will the nations that join you. I will feed you to all kinds of birds that eat dead bodies. So they and the wild animals will eat you up.5You will fall dead in the open fields. I have spoken,’ announces the LORD and King.6‘I will send fire on the land of Magog. It will burn up the people who live in safety on the coast. So they will know that I am the LORD.7‘ “ ‘I will make my holy name known among my people Israel. I will no longer let them treat my name as if it were not holy. Then the nations will know that I am the Holy One in Israel. I am the LORD.8The day I will judge you is coming. You can be sure of it,’ announces the LORD and King. ‘It is the day I have spoken about.9‘ “ ‘At that time those who live in the towns of Israel will go out and light a fire. They will use it to burn up the weapons. That includes small and large shields. It also includes bows and arrows, war clubs and spears. It will take seven years to burn all of them up.10People will not gather wood from the fields. They will not cut down the forests. Instead, they will burn the weapons. And they will rob those who robbed them. They will steal from those who stole from them,’ announces the LORD and King.11‘ “ ‘Gog, at that time I will bury you in a grave in Israel. It will be in the valley where people travel east of the Dead Sea. It will block the path of travellers. That’s because you and your huge armies will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Gog’s Armies.12‘ “ ‘It will take seven months for the Israelites to bury the bodies. They will do this to make the land “clean” again.13All the people in the land will bury them. The day that I show how glorious I am will be a time to remember.’ This is what the LORD and King announces.14‘People will keep being hired to make the land “clean” again. They will go all through it. They and others will bury any bodies lying on the ground. ‘ “ ‘After the seven months they will search even more carefully.15As they go through the land here is what they’ll do. When anyone sees a bone, they will put a marker beside it. Then those who dig the graves will take the bone to the Valley of Gog’s Armies. There they will bury it.16That is how they will make the land “clean” again.’ ” ’ Also a town called Gog’s Armies is near there.17The LORD and King said to me, ‘Son of man, speak to every kind of bird. Call out to all the wild animals. Tell them, “Gather together. Come from everywhere. Gather around the sacrifice I am preparing for you. It is the great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat human bodies and drink human blood.18You will eat the bodies of mighty men. You will drink the blood of the princes of the earth. You will eat their bodies and drink their blood. You will do this as if they were rams and lambs, goats and bulls. You will enjoy it as if you were eating the fattest animals from Bashan.19So I am preparing a sacrifice for you. You will eat fat until you are completely full. You will drink blood until you are drunk.20At my table you will eat horses, riders, mighty men and soldiers until you are full,” announces the LORD and King.21‘ “I will show all the nations my glory. They will see how I punish them when I use my power against them.22From that time on, the people of Israel will know that I am the LORD their God.23The nations will know that the people of Israel were taken away as prisoners because they sinned against me. They were not faithful to me. So I turned my face away from them. I handed them over to their enemies. All of them were killed by swords.24I punished them because they were ‘unclean’. They did many things that were wrong. So I turned my face away from them.” ’25The LORD and King says, ‘I will now cause the people of Jacob to recover from my judgment. I will show my tender love for all the people of Israel. I will make sure that my name is kept holy.26My people will forget the shameful things they have done. They will not remember all the ways they were unfaithful to me. They used to live in safety in their land. At that time no one made them afraid.27So I will bring them back from the nations. I will gather them from the countries of their enemies. And I will use them to prove to many nations how holy I am.28Then they will know that I am the LORD their God. I let the nations take my people away as prisoners. But now I will bring them back to their own land. I will not leave anyone behind.29I will no longer turn my face away from the people of Israel. I will pour out my Spirit on them,’ announces the LORD and King.
Ezekiel 39
English Standard Version
1“And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech[1] and Tubal. (Eze 2:1; Eze 13:8; Eze 38:2; Eze 38:3)2And I will turn you about and drive you forward,[2] and bring you up from the uttermost parts of the north, and lead you against the mountains of Israel. (Eze 6:2; Eze 32:30; Eze 38:4; Eze 38:6; Eze 38:15)3Then I will strike your bow from your left hand, and will make your arrows drop out of your right hand. (Ps 76:3)4You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your hordes and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. (Eze 38:6; Eze 38:9; Eze 38:21; Eze 38:22; Eze 39:2; Eze 39:17)5You shall fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Lord God. (Eze 17:21)6I will send fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the coastlands, and they shall know that I am the Lord. (Eze 6:7; Eze 27:3; Eze 27:6; Eze 27:15; Eze 28:18; Eze 30:8; Eze 30:14; Eze 30:16; Eze 38:2; Eze 38:8; Eze 38:14; Eze 38:22)7“And my holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. (Isa 45:11; Eze 20:39; Eze 36:23; Eze 39:22)8Behold, it is coming and it will be brought about, declares the Lord God. That is the day of which I have spoken. (Eze 21:7; Eze 38:17)9“Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and make fires of the weapons and burn them, shields and bucklers, bow and arrows, clubs[3] and spears; and they will make fires of them for seven years, (1Sa 17:40; Ps 46:9; Isa 9:5)10so that they will not need to take wood out of the field or cut down any out of the forests, for they will make their fires of the weapons. They will seize the spoil of those who despoiled them, and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord God. (Isa 33:1; Eze 39:9)11“On that day I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers, east of the sea. It will block the travelers, for there Gog and all his multitude will be buried. It will be called the Valley of Hamon-gog.[4] (Eze 38:2; Eze 39:15)12For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order to cleanse the land. (De 21:23; Eze 39:14)13All the people of the land will bury them, and it will bring them renown on the day that I show my glory, declares the Lord God. (Eze 28:22)14They will set apart men to travel through the land regularly and bury those travelers remaining on the face of the land, so as to cleanse it. At[5] the end of seven months they will make their search. (Eze 39:12)15And when these travel through the land and anyone sees a human bone, then he shall set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog. (Eze 39:11)16(Hamonah[6] is also the name of the city.) Thus shall they cleanse the land.17“As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God: Speak to the birds of every sort and to all beasts of the field: ‘Assemble and come, gather from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood. (Isa 34:6; Jer 12:9; Eze 2:1; Eze 39:4; Zep 1:7; Re 19:17)18You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth—of rams, of lambs, and of he-goats, of bulls, all of them fat beasts of Bashan. (Ps 22:12; Re 19:18)19And you shall eat fat till you are filled, and drink blood till you are drunk, at the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you.20And you shall be filled at my table with horses and charioteers, with mighty men and all kinds of warriors,’ declares the Lord God.21“And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them. (Ex 7:4; Eze 28:22; Eze 36:23; Eze 37:28; Eze 38:23; Eze 39:7; Eze 39:13)22The house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God, from that day forward. (Eze 6:7; Eze 39:28; Joe 2:27)23And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword. (Le 26:25; De 29:24; De 31:17)24I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their transgressions, and hid my face from them. (Eze 18:30)
The Lord Will Restore Israel
25“Therefore thus says the Lord God: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for my holy name. (Jer 30:3; Eze 5:13; Eze 20:9; Eze 20:40)26They shall forget their shame and all the treachery they have practiced against me, when they dwell securely in their land with none to make them afraid, (Eze 32:24; Eze 34:25; Eze 34:27; Eze 34:28; Eze 38:8)27when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies’ lands, and through them have vindicated my holiness in the sight of many nations. (Eze 11:17; Eze 20:41; Eze 28:25)28Then they shall know that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore. (Eze 39:22)29And I will not hide my face anymore from them, when I pour out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord God.” (Eze 39:23; Joe 2:28)