THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL

 

Ezekiel Chapter 39

1 ¶ Therefore, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:

2 And I will turn you about, and drive you on, and will cause you to come from the distant north, and will bring you against the mountains of Israel:

3 And I will knock your bow from your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall from your right hand.

4 You will fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the people who are with you: I will give you to all the birds of prey, and to beasts of the field to be devoured.

5 You will fall on the open field: for I have said so, says the Lord GOD.

6 And I will send fire on Magog, and upon those who live securely in the coastlands: and they will know that I am the LORD.

7 So I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen will know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.

8 ¶ Behold, it is coming, and will be done, says the Lord GOD; this is the day of which I have spoken.

9 And those who live in the cities of Israel will go out, and set fire to the weapons and burn them, the shields, the bucklers, the bows, the arrows, the clubs, and the spears and they will burn them for seven years:

10 So that they will not need to get wood from the field, or cut any down in the forests; for they will burn the weapons with fire: and they will spoil those who spoiled them, and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord GOD.

11 And it will come to pass in that day, that I will give Gog a place where he can be buried in Israel, the valley of the Abarim east of the Dead Sea: and it will stop those who pass through: and there they will bury Gog with all his hordes: and they will call it The valley of Hamon-gog.

12 The house of Israel will spend seven months burying them, that they may cleanse the land.

13 Yes all the people of the land will bury them; and it will bring them renown on the day I am glorified, says the Lord GOD.

14 And they will set apart men to work continually, passing through the land to bury, with the help of those passing by, those who remain on the surface of the ground, to cleanse it. After the end of seven months they will begin searching.

15 And when any of the travelers who pass through the land see a man’s bone, he will set up a marker by it, until the men who bury have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog.

16 And the name of the burial place will be Hamonah. Thus they will cleanse the land.

17 Son of man, the Lord GOD says this; Speak to every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves and come; gather from every side to my sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, even a great sacrificial dinner on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh, and drink blood.

18 You will eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, of goats, and of bulls, all of them fat animals of Bashan.

19 And you will eat fat till you are full, and drink blood till you are drunk, at my sacrifice which I have prepared for you.

20 Thus you will be filled at my table with horses and riders, with mighty men, and men of war of every kind, says the Lord GOD.

21 And I will establish my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the judgment that I have carried out, and the hand that I have laid upon them.

22 So the house of Israel will know that I am the LORD their God from that day forward.

23 ¶ Then the heathen will know that the house of Israel went into captivity because of their sin: because they trespassed against me, therefore I hid my face from them, and delivered them into the hand of their enemies: and they all fell by the sword.

24 I gave them what they deserved for their uncleanness and sins, when I hid my face from them.

25 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Now will I bring back the captives of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel, and will be zealous for my holy name;

26 They will forget their shame, and all the treachery they have shown against me, when they dwell securely in their own land, and no one makes them afraid.

27 After I have brought them back from the nations, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;

28 Then they will know that I am the LORD their God, who caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: and then gathered them to their own land, and have left none of them behind.

29 Nor will I hide my face from them any longer: for I have poured out my spirit on the house of Israel, says the Lord GOD.