 1 The Word of the Lord came to me saying, 2 Son of man, set your face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him. 3 Say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you Gog, the chief ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. 4 I will turn you back and put hooks into your jaws and bring you out with all your army, horses and horsemen. All of them clothed most perfectly, a great assembly with buckler and shield. All of them swordsmen. 5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them. All of them with shield and helmet. 6 Gomer and all his bands. The house of Togarmah from the recesses of the north and all his bands and many people with you. 7 Be prepared. Yes, prepare for yourself, you and all your assembly that are assembled to you, and be a guard to them. 8 After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you shall come into the land turned back from the sword, gathered out of many people, on the mountains of Israel, which have always been waste. But he has been brought out of the people, and they shall live securely, all of them. 9 You shall go up, coming like a storm. You shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you and all your bands, and many people with you. 10 Thus says the Lord God: In that day, things will come into your heart and you will devise an evil plan. 11 You will say, I will go up to the land of open spaces. I will go to those at ease who live securely, all of them dwelling without walls and there are no bars nor gates to them. 12 This in order to take spoil and steal a prize. To turn your hand on the inhabited waste places and on the people gathered out of the nations who have gotten cattle and goods, who live in the midst of the land. 13 Sheba and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all their young lions, will say to you, Have you come to take a spoil? Have you gathered your company to steal a prize, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? 14 So, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, Thus says the Lord God: In that day, when my people of Israel live securely, you will not know it? 15 You will come from your place out of the recesses of the north, you and many people with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army. 16 You will come upon my people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. In the last days, I will bring you against my land so that the nations may know me when I will be sanctified in you, O Gog, before their eyes. 17 Thus says the Lord God: Are you the one about whom I have spoken in former days, by the hand of my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days and years that I would bring you against them? 18 On that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel, says the Lord God, my fury will come up in my presence+. 19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath I have spoken, Surely in that day there will be a great quaking in the land of Israel. 20 The fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep on the earth and all the men on the face of the earth will quake at my presence. The mountains will be thrown down and the steep places will fall and every wall will fall to the ground. 21 I will call for a sword against him on all my mountains, says the Lord God. Each man's sword will be against his brother. 22 I will judge with a plague and with blood. I will rain on them and on their bands and on many people with an overflowing shower and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. 23 Thus I will magnify myself and sanctify myself. I will be known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
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