 1 Therefore, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the chief ruler of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal. 2 I will turn you back, and lead you on. And I will bring you up from the recesses of the north, and I will bring you on the mountains of Israel. 3 I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand. 4 You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your bands, and the people with you. I will give you for food to the birds of prey of every kind, and to the beasts of the field. 5 You shall fall on the face of the field, for I have spoken, says the Lord God. 6 I will send a fire on Magog and on the secure inhabitants of the coasts. Then they will know that I am the Lord. 7 I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel. I will not let them profane my holy name any more. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. 8 Behold, it is coming and it will be done, says the Lord God. This is the day about which I have spoken. 9 The inhabitants of the cities of Israel will go out and set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows and the javelins and the spears. They will burn them with fire seven years. 10 Thus, they will take no wood out of the field nor cut down any of the forests for they shall burn the weapons for fire. They will plunder those who plundered them and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord God. 11 In that day, I will give to Gog a place there, a grave in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea. It will stop the noses of those who pass by and there they will bury Gog and all his multitude. They will call it the valley of the multitude of Gog. 12 The house of Israel will bury them to cleanse the land, seven months. 13 All the people of the land will bury them and it will be a name to them, the day when I am glorified, says the Lord God. 14 They will separate+ out those who continue to pass through the land, to bury those who passed through, those who remain on the face of the earth, to cleanse it. After the end of seven months they will search. 15 As they pass, those who pass through the land and any man sees a bone, he shall build a post beside it until the buriers have buried it in the valley of the multitude of Gog. 16 Also the name of the city is The Multitude and they will cleanse the land. 17 You, son of man, Thus says the Lord God. Speak to the bird of every wing and to every beast of the field: Gather together and come. Gather together from all around to my sacrifice that I sacrifice for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel so that you may eat flesh and drink blood. 18 Eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the rulers of the earth, of rams, lambs, goats, and bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan. 19 Eat fat until you are full and drink blood until you are drunk, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. 20 Be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, all the men of war, says the Lord God. 21 I will set my glory among the nations and all the nations will see my judgments that I have done and my hand that I have laid on them. 22 Then the house of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God from that day and forward. 23 The nations will know that the house of Israel was exiled for their iniquity because they sinned against me. Therefore I hid my presence+ from them and gave them to their enemies so that they all fell by the sword. 24 According to their uncleanness and according to their sins I have done to them and have hid my presence+ from them. 25 Therefore thus says the Lord God: I will return the captivity of Jacob and will have mercy on the whole house of Israel and I will be jealous for my holy name; 26 After they have borne their shame and all their sins by which they have sinned against me, when they live securely in their land and no one terrifies, 27 when I have brought them again from the people and gathered them out of their enemies' lands and I am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations, 28 then they will know that I am the Lord their God who exiled them among the nations. But I have gathered them to their own land and have not left any of them there. 29 Nor will I hide my presence+ from them any more. For I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel, says the Lord God.
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