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38 ‎[1] **The word of the Lord was with me, saying: **
‎[2] **Son of man, direct your attention to Gog**** of the land of Magog, the prince, head of, **the supreme ruler of the peoples of,** Meshekh and Tuval, and prophesy in his regard. **
‎[3] **Say: So said the Lord God: Behold, I am **turning **against you, Gog, the prince, head of Meshekh and Tuval. **
‎[4] **I will lead you astray, **instilling in you a spirit of mischief, or inciting you,** and I will insert hooks into your cheeks, **as one does to pull animals, **and I will take you out with all your army, horses, and horsemen, all of them clothed in grandeur, a great assembly **equipped **with **wide **shields **that encircle the fighter** and bucklers, **and** all of them wielding swords. **
‎[5] **Persia, Kush, and Put**** will be with them, **with the riders and the sword-wielding foot soldiers,** all of them with shields and **wearing warriors’** helmets. **Not all nations would wear helmets in war. In general, the donning of headgear was emblematic of certain kingdoms.
‎[6] The kingdom of **Gomer**** and all its troops, the house of Togarma,**** **located** at the ends of the North and all its troops, many peoples with you, **Gog, for war.
‎[7] **Prepare and ready **for **yourself **all that you require for war,** you and all your assembly who are assembling with you, and you will be a guardian for them, **as you are the commander who oversees all your armies.
‎[8] **After many days, **at an unspecified point in time, **you will be summoned; at the end of years,** it could be an era in the distant future or in the near future,** you will come to a land restored from destruction, **healed from devastation, a land whose population is **gathered from **among the **many peoples, **among whom they were exiled, **upon the mountains of Israel, which were rendered a perpetual ruin, and it, **the people of the land,** was taken out from peoples, **was** **comprised of refugees from various exiles, **and they dwelled in security **in the land,** all of them. **
‎[9] When **you will go up, you will come like a storm, **like a wide-ranging disaster upon the world; **you will be like a** dark** cloud **that descends **to cover the land, you and all your troops and **the **many peoples **that are **with you. **
‎[10] **So said the Lord God **in your regard:** It will be on that day, **when I direct you and lure you to come, **matters will arise in your heart, and you will conceive an evil thought. **
‎[11] **You will say: I will go up against a land of unwalled cities; I will come to the tranquil who live in security, all of them dwelling without a wall, and bars and gates they do not have. **
‎[12] You will do so in order **to take spoils and to plunder loot, to turn your hand against resettled ruins, and against a people gathered from the nations who amassed livestock and property, inhabitants on the middle of the earth.** It appears that the conquest of the Land of Israel as a strategic and economic asset is one aspect of Gog’s campaigns of conquest.
‎[13] **Sheva** (27:22),** and Dedan **(27:15),** **nations of traders that accumulated wealth, **and** **the merchants of Tarshish** (27:12)** and all its **energetic and clever **magnates, **who will rejoice over the plunder like beasts of prey over their victims, **will say to you, **in their greed:** Have you come to take spoils? Have you assembled your assembly to plunder loot, to carry silver and gold, to take livestock and property, to take great spoils? **Although these men are not soldiers, they will be interested in sharing with Gog’s assured spoils, a phenomenon that is not uncommon in wars.
‎[14] **Therefore, prophesy, Son of man, and say to Gog: So said the Lord God: On that day, when My people Israel live in security, you will know **My ways.
‎[15] **You will come from your place, from the ends of the North, you and many peoples with you, all of them riders of horses, a great assembly and a mighty army. **
‎[16] **You will go up **with all your multitude of armies **against My people Israel like a cloud **rising **to cover the land; it, **this prophecy,** will be at the End of Days, **the end of history; **I will bring you to My land so that the nations will know Me when I am sanctified through you before their eyes, Gog. **When Gog falls, the greatness and strength of God will be known in the world.
‎[17] **So said the Lord God: Are you he of whom I spoke in past days through My servants, the prophets of Israel,**** who prophesied in those days for years to bring you against them? **Are you the person about whom the prophets always spoke, the man who will engender the last war? Just as in many generations there have been people presuming to be the Messiah, so too there could be a figure presuming to be Gog, the man who will engender the ultimate world war.
‎[18] **It will be on that day, on the day of Gog’s arrival upon the soil of Israel – the utterance of the Lord God – My fury will flare in My wrath. **
‎[19] **In My zealotry and in the fire of My anger I have spoken: On that day there will surely, **an expression of an oath,** be a great earthquake upon the soil of Israel. **The ground will tremor mightily.
‎[20] As a result, **the** **fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field and every crawling creature that crawls upon the earth, and every person who is on the face of the earth will quake before Me, and the mountains will be destroyed, and the terraces **on mountain slopes for planting** will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground. **
‎[21] **I will call the sword against him, **Gog,** to all my mountains – the utterance of the Lord God – each man’s sword will be against his brother. **Gog’s warriors will kill each other.
‎[22] **I will punish him with pestilence and with blood, and I will shower upon him, upon his troops, and upon the many peoples who are with him torrential rain and great hailstones,**** fire and brimstone. **
‎[23] **I will be glorified, and I will be sanctified, and I will become known before the eyes of many nations, and they will know that I am the Lord. **At the conclusion of this war, and its accompanying shock waves, God’s name will be glorified and sanctified.
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