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38 ‎(1) The word of GOD came to me: ‎(2) O mortal, turn your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. Prophesy against him ‎(3) and say: Thus said the Sovereign GOD: Lo, I am coming to deal with you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal! ‎(4) I will turn you around and put hooks in your jaws, and lead you out with all your army, horses, and riders, all of them clothed in splendor, a vast assembly, all of them with bucklers and shields, wielding swords. ‎(5) Among them shall be Persia, Cush, and Put, everyone with shield and helmet; ‎(6) Gomer and all its cohorts, Beth-togarmah [in] the remotest parts of the north and all its cohorts—the many peoples with you. ‎(7) Be ready, prepare yourselves, you and all the battalions mustered about you, and hold yourself in reserve for them. ‎(8) After a long time you shall be summoned; in the distant future you shall march against the land [of a people] restored from the sword, gathered from the midst of many peoples—against the mountains of Israel, which have long lain desolate—[a people] liberated from the nations, and now all dwelling secure. ‎(9) You shall advance, coming like a storm; you shall be like a cloud covering the earth, you and all your cohorts, and the many peoples with you. ‎(10) Thus said the Sovereign GOD: On that day, a thought will occur to you, and you will conceive a wicked design. ‎(11) You will say, “I will invade a land of open towns, I will fall upon a tranquil people living secure, all of them living in unwalled towns and lacking bars and gates, ‎(12) in order to take spoil and seize plunder”—to turn your hand against repopulated wastes, and against a people gathered from among nations, acquiring livestock and possessions, living at the center of the earth. ‎(13) Sheba and Dedan, and the merchants and all the magnates of Tarshish will say to you, “Have you come to take spoil? Is it to seize plunder that you assembled your hordes—to carry off silver and gold, to make off with livestock and goods, to gather an immense booty?” ‎(14) Therefore prophesy, O mortal, and say to Gog: Thus said the Sovereign GOD: Surely, on that day, when My people Israel are living secure, you will take note, ‎(15) and you will come from your home in the farthest north, you and many peoples with you—all of them mounted on horses, a vast horde, a mighty army— ‎(16) and you will advance upon My people Israel, like a cloud covering the earth. This shall happen on that distant day: I will bring you to My land, that the nations may know Me when, before their eyes, I manifest My holiness through you, O Gog! ‎(17) Thus said the Sovereign GOD: Why, you are the one I spoke of in ancient days through My servants, the prophets of Israel, who prophesied for years in those days that I would bring you against them! ‎(18) On that day, when Gog sets foot on the soil of Israel—declares the Sovereign GOD —My raging anger shall flare up. ‎(19) For I have decreed in My indignation and in My blazing wrath: On that day, a terrible earthquake shall befall the land of Israel. ‎(20) The fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the beasts of the field, all creeping things that move on the ground, and every human being on earth shall quake before Me. Mountains shall be overthrown, cliffs shall topple, and every wall shall crumble to the ground. ‎(21) I will then summon the sword against him throughout My mountains —declares the Sovereign GOD —and every man’s sword shall be turned against his kin. ‎(22) I will punish him with pestilence and with bloodshed; and I will pour torrential rain, hailstones, and sulfurous fire upon him and his hordes and the many peoples with him. ‎(23) Thus will I manifest My greatness and My holiness, and make Myself known in the sight of many nations. And they shall know that I am GOD.
Mishneh Torah, Prayer and the Priestly Blessing
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