Ezekiel:38-39)
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The word of the LORD came to me :
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Son of man ,
set your face toward Gog ,
of the land of Magog ,
the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal ,
and prophesy against him
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and say ,
Thus says the Lord GOD :
Behold ,
I am against you ,
O Gog ,
chief prince of Meshech and Tubal ;
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and I will turn you about ,
and put hooks into your jaws ,
and I will bring you forth ,
and all your army ,
horses and horsemen ,
all of them clothed in full armor ,
a great company ,
all of them with buckler and shield ,
wielding swords ;
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Persia ,
Cush ,
and Put are with them ,
all of them with shield and helmet ;
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Gomer and all his hordes ;
Beth-togar '
mah from the uttermost parts of the north with all his hordes--many peoples are with you .
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Be ready and keep ready ,
you and all the hosts that are assembled about you ,
and be a guard for them .
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After many days you will be mustered ;
in the latter years you will go against the land that is restored from war ,
the land where people were gathered from many nations upon the mountains of Israel ,
which had been a continual waste ;
its people were brought out from the nations and now dwell securely ,
all of them .
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You will advance ,
coming on like a storm ,
you will be like a cloud covering the land you and all your hordes ,
and many peoples with you .
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Thus says the Lord GOD :
On that day thoughts will come into your mind ,
and you will devise an evil scheme
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and say , `
I will go up against the land of unwalled villages ;
I will fall upon the quiet people who dwell securely ,
all of them dwelling without walls ,
and having no bars or gates ';
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to seize spoil and carry off plunder ;
to assail the waste places which are now inhabited ,
and the people who were gathered from the nations ,
who have gotten cattle and goods ,
who dwell at the center of the earth .
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Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its villages will say to you , `
Have you come to seize spoil ?
Have you assembled your hosts to carry off plunder ,
to carry away silver and gold ,
to take away cattle and goods ,
to seize great spoil ?'
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Therefore ,
son of man ,
prophesy ,
and say to Gog ,
Thus says the Lord GOD :
On that day when my people Israel are dwelling securely ,
you will bestir yourself
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and come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north ,
you and many peoples with you ,
all of them riding on horses ,
a great host ,
a mighty army ;
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you will come up against my people Israel ,
like a cloud covering the land .
In the latter days I will bring you against my land ,
that the nations may know me ,
when through you ,
O Gog ,
I vindicate my holiness before their eyes .
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Thus says the Lord GOD :
Are you he of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel ,
who in those days prophesied for years that I would bring you against them ?
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But on that day ,
when Gog shall come against the land of Israel ,
says the Lord GOD ,
my wrath will be roused .
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For in my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare ,
On that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel ;
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the fish of the sea ,
and the birds of the air ,
and the beasts of the field ,
and all creeping things that creep on the ground ,
and all the men that are upon the face of the earth ,
shall quake at my presence ,
and the mountains shall be thrown down ,
and the cliffs shall fall ,
and every wall shall tumble to the ground .
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I will summon every kind of terror against Gog ,
says the Lord GOD ;
every man '
s sword will be against his brother .
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With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him ;
and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples that are with him ,
torrential rains and hailstones ,
fire and brimstone .
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So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations .
Then they will know that I am the LORD .
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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 and Tubal ;
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and I will turn you about and drive you forward ,
and bring you up from the uttermost parts of the north ,
and lead you against the mountains of Israel ;
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then I will strike your bow from your left hand ,
and will make your arrows drop out of your right hand .
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You shall fall upon the mountains of Israel ,
you and all your hordes and the peoples that are with you ;
I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the wild beasts to be devoured .
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You shall fall in the open field ;
for I have spoken ,
says the Lord GOD .
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I will send fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the coastlands ;
and they shall know that I am the LORD .
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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 any more ;
and the nations shall know that I am the LORD ,
the Holy One in Israel .
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Behold ,
it is coming and it will be brought about ,
says the Lord GOD .
That is the day of which I have spoken .
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Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go forth and make fires of the weapons and burn them ,
shields and bucklers ,
bows and arrows ,
handpikes and spears ,
and they will make fires of them for seven years ;
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so 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 despoil those who despoiled them ,
and plunder those who plundered them ,
says the Lord GOD .
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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 .
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For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them ,
in order to cleanse the land .
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All the people of the land will bury them ;
and it will redound to their honor on the day that I show my glory ,
says the Lord GOD .
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They will set apart men to pass through the land continually and bury those remaining upon the face of the land ,
so as to cleanse it ;
at the end of seven months they will make their search .
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And when these pass through the land and any one sees a man '
s bone ,
then he shall set up a sign by it ,
till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog .
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A city Hamo '
nah is there also .)
Thus shall they cleanse the land .
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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 sides to the sacrificial feast which I am preparing for you ,
a great sacrificial feast upon the mountains of Israel ,
and you shall eat flesh and drink blood .
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You shall eat the flesh of the mighty ,
and drink the blood of the princes of the earth--of rams ,
of lambs ,
and of goats ,
of bulls ,
all of them fatlings of Bashan .
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And you shall eat fat till you are filled ,
and drink blood till you are drunk ,
at the sacrificial feast which I am preparing for you .
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And you shall be filled at my table with horses and riders ,
with mighty men and all kinds of warriors ,'
says the Lord GOD .
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And I will set my glory among the nations ;
and all the nations shall see my judgment which I have executed ,
and my hand which I have laid on them .
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The house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God ,
from that day forward .
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And 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 .
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I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their transgressions ,
and hid my face from them .
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Therefore thus says the Lord GOD :
Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob ,
and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel ;
and I will be jealous for my holy name .
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They 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 ,
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when 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 .
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Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God because I sent them into exile among the nations ,
and then gathered them into their own land .
I will leave none of them remaining among the nations any more ;
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and I will not hide my face any more from them ,
when I pour out my Spirit upon the house of Israel ,
says the Lord GOD ."
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In the twenty-fifth year of our exile ,
at the beginning of the year ,
on the tenth day of the month ,
in the fourteenth year after the city was conquered ,
on that very day ,
the hand of the LORD was upon me ,
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