Gog’s Armies Destroyed
1 “Andyou, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, ‘Thus says the LordGod: “Behold, Iamagainst you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal;
2 and I willturn you around and lead you on,bringing you up from the far north, and bring you against the mountains of Israel.
3 Then I will knock the bow out of your left hand, and cause the arrows to fall out of your right hand.
4 You shall fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples whoarewith you;I will give you to birds of prey of every sort andtothe beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 You shall fall on the open field; for I have spoken,” says the LordGod.
6 “And I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in security inthe coastlands. Then they shall know that IamtheLord.
7 So I will make My holy name known in the midst of My people Israel, and I will notletthemprofane My holy name anymore.Then the nations shall know thatIamtheLord, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Surely it is coming, and it shall be done,” says the LordGod. “Thisisthe dayof which I have spoken.
9 “Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and bucklers, the bows and arrows, the javelins and spears; and they will make fires with them for seven years.
10 They will not take wood from the field nor cut downanyfrom the forests, because they will make fires with the weapons;and they will plunder those who plundered them, and pillage those who pillaged them,” says the LordGod.
The Burial of Gog
11 “It will come to pass in that daythatI will give Gog a burial place there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea; and it will obstruct travelers, because there they will bury Gog and all his multitude. Therefore they will callitthe Valley of Hamon Gog.
12 For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them,in order to cleanse the land.
13 Indeed all the people of the land will be burying, and they will gainrenown for it on the day thatI am glorified,” says the LordGod.
14 “They will set apart men regularly employed, with the help of a search party, to pass through the land and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, in orderto cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search.
15 The search party will pass through the land; andwhenanyonesees a man’s bone, he shall set up a marker by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog.
16 Thename ofthecitywillalsobeHamonah. Thus they shallcleanse the land.” ’
A Triumphant Festival
17 “And as for you, son of man, thus says the LordGod,‘Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field:
# “Assemble yourselves and come;
# Gather together from all sides to Mysacrificial meal
Which I am sacrificing for you,
# A great sacrificial mealon the mountains of Israel,
That you may eat flesh and drink blood.
18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty,
Drink the blood of the princes of the earth,
Of rams and lambs,
Of goats and bulls,
# All of themfatlings of Bashan.
19 You shall eat fat till you are full,
And drink blood till you are drunk,
At My sacrificial meal
Which I am sacrificing for you.
20 You shall be filled at My table
With horses and riders,
# With mighty men
And with all the men of war,” says the LordGod.
Israel Restored to the Land
21 “I will set My glory among the nations; all the nations shall see My judgment which I have executed, andMy hand which I have laid on them.
22 So the house of Israel shall know that IamtheLordtheir God from that day forward.
23 The Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they were unfaithful to Me, thereforeI hid My face from them. Igave them into the hand of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.
24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I have dealt with them, and hidden My face from them.” ’
25 “Therefore thus says the LordGod:‘Now I will bring back the captives of Jacob, and have mercy on thewhole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name—
26 after they have borne their shame, and all their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, when theydwelt safely in theirownland and no one madethemafraid.
27 When I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and Iam hallowed in them in the sight of many nations,
28 then they shall know that IamtheLordtheir God, who sent them into captivity among the nations, but also brought them back to their land, and left none of them captive any longer.
29 And I will not hide My face from them anymore; for I shall havepoured out My Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the LordGod.”