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39 ‎(1) And you, O mortal, prophesy against Gog and say: Thus said the Sovereign GOD: I am going to deal with you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal! ‎(2) I will turn you around and drive you on, and I will take you from the far north and lead you toward the mountains of Israel. ‎(3) I will strike your bow from your left hand and I will loosen the arrows from your right hand. ‎(4) You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your battalions and the peoples who are with you; and I will give you as food to carrion birds of every sort and to the beasts of the field, ‎(5) as you lie in the open field. For I have spoken—declares the Sovereign GOD. ‎(6) And I will send a fire against Magog and against those who dwell secure in the coastlands. And they shall know that I am GOD. ‎(7) I will make My holy name known among My people Israel, and never again will I let My holy name be profaned. And the nations shall know that I, GOD, am holy in Israel. ‎(8) Ah! it has come, it has happened—declares the Sovereign GOD: this is that day that I decreed. ‎(9) Then the inhabitants of the cities of Israel will go out and make fires and feed them with the weapons—shields and bucklers, bows and arrows, clubs and spears; they shall use them as fuel for seven years. ‎(10) They will not gather firewood in the fields or cut any in the forests, but will use the weapons as fuel for their fires. They will despoil those who despoiled them and plunder those who plundered them—declares the Sovereign GOD. ‎(11) On that day I will assign to Gog a burial site there in Israel—the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Sea. It shall block the path of travelers, for there Gog and all his multitude will be buried. It shall be called the Valley of Gog’s Multitude. ‎(12) The House of Israel shall spend seven months burying them, in order to purify the land; ‎(13) all the people of the land shall bury them. The day I manifest My glory shall bring renown to them—declares the Sovereign GOD. ‎(14) And they shall appoint members of a corps to traverse the land and bury any invaders who remain above ground, in order to purify it. The search shall go on for a period of seven months. ‎(15) As those who traverse the country make their rounds, any one of them who sees a human bone shall erect a marker beside it, until the buriers have interred them in the Valley of Gog’s Multitude. ‎(16) There shall also be a city named Multitude. And thus the land shall be purified. ‎(17) And you, O mortal, say to every winged bird and to all the wild beasts: Thus said the Sovereign GOD: Assemble, come and gather from all around for the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you—a great sacrificial feast—upon the mountains of Israel, and eat flesh and drink blood. ‎(18) You shall eat the flesh of warriors and drink the blood of the princes of the earth: rams, lambs, he-goats, and bulls—fatlings of Bashan all of them. ‎(19) You shall eat fat to satiety and drink your fill of blood from the sacrificial feast that I have prepared for you. ‎(20) And you shall sate yourselves at My table with horses, charioteers, warriors, and all soldiers—declares the Sovereign GOD. ‎(21) Thus will I manifest My glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see the judgment that I executed and the power that I wielded against them. ‎(22) From that time on, the House of Israel shall know that I the ETERNAL am their God. ‎(23) And the nations shall know that the House of Israel were exiled only for their iniquity, because they trespassed against Me, so that I hid My face from them and delivered them into the hands of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword. ‎(24) When I hid My face from them, I dealt with them according to their impurity and their transgressions. ‎(25) Assuredly, thus said the Sovereign GOD: I will now restore the fortunes of Jacob and take the whole House of Israel back in love; and I will be zealous for My holy name. ‎(26) They will bear their shame and all their trespasses that they committed against Me, when they dwell in their land secure and untroubled, ‎(27) when I have brought them back from among the peoples and gathered them out of the lands of their enemies and have manifested My holiness through them in the sight of many nations. ‎(28) They shall know that I the ETERNAL am their GOD when, having exiled them among the nations, I gather them back into their land and leave none of them behind. ‎(29) I will never again hide My face from them, for I will pour out My spirit upon the House of Israel—declares the Sovereign GOD.
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