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Ezekiel 39

Son of man, prophesy against Gog, tell him this from the Lord the Eternal: ‘I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshek, and Tubal! 2 I will turn you, lead you on, bring you from the far north to attack the uplands of Israel, 3 and then I will strike the bow from your left hand and knock the arrows out of your right hand; 4 on the uplands of Israel you shall fall, you and all your hordes and allies; I will leave you as food for all sorts of ravenous birds and wild beasts to devour; 5 in the open country you shall fall—I have said it, says the Lord the Eternal.’ 6 I will send fire to burn up Magog and the coast-lands where men live securely--to teach them that I am the Eternal. 7 I will let my dread divinity be seen within my people Israel, and never allow my sacred honour to be lowered again; it will teach the nations that I am the Eternal, the Majestic One in Israel. 8 It is coming, it shall come to be, says the Lord the Eternal--here is the day I predicted! 9 The citizens of Israel shall go out and make firewood of the weapons, the targes, the shields, the bows and arrows, the pikes and spears; it will serve them as firewood for some years, 10 they shall not require to cut wood from the fields or the forests but shall use weapons as firewood; they shall plunder those who plundered them and prey on those who preyed on them (so the Lord the Eternal decrees).

11 I will give Gog then a famous place for his grave within Israel, the valley of Abarim, east of the Dead Sea; there shall they bury Gog and all his mob, and call it ‘The valley of Gog-mob’! 12 The Israelites will be seven months in burying them, in order to cleanse the land; 13 all the natives shall bury them, and it will be a famous thing for them when I uphold my honour, says the Lord the Eternal. 14 They must select men who are to be constantly occupied in traversing the land and collecting the corpses that lie on the surface, so as to cleanse the land; this search is to be made after seven months, 15 and in the course of the search, when anyone sees a human bone, he must put up a mark beside it, till the burial parties come and bury the bone in the valley of Gog-mob. 16 So shall they cleanse the land.

17 Son of man, give this message from the Lord the Eternal to all sorts of birds and to every wild beast: ‘Come, gather and collect from all quarters to the feast of a sacrifice that I am preparing for you, a rich feast on the uplands of Israel, where you can eat flesh and drink blood; 18 you shall eat the flesh of heroes and drink the blood of the world’s princes—their rams and lambs and goats and bullocks, all fatted animals of Bashan; 19 you shall eat your fill of the fat and drink yourselves drunk with the blood of the feast I am preparing for you: 20 yes, at my board you can glut yourselves on horses and riding animals, on heroes and warriors to the full! The Lord the Eternal has said it.’

21 Thus will I set up my honour among the nations, till all see the vengeance I inflict and the heavy hand I lay upon them. 22 From that day onwards, Israel shall be sure that I am the Eternal their God, 23 and the nations shall understand that Israel was exiled on account of their iniquity, that it was because they had been unfaithful to me that I withdrew my favour from them and handed them over to their foes, till they all fell by the sword; 24 it was for their unclean lives and their transgressions that I punished them and withdrew my favour from them. 25 But now, says the Lord the Eternal, I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole community of Israel, as I am jealous for my sacred honour. 26 They shall forget their shame and all their faithlessness to me, once they live undisturbed in their own land, with no one to scare them, 27 once I bring them back from the nations and gather them from the countries of their foes, and let the nations see what I am by my dealings with Israel. 28 They shall understand that I am the Eternal their God by this, that it was I who sent them into exile abroad and I who gathered them back into their own land, 29 where I will never leave any of them alone again, never withdraw my favour from them again--for on the community of Israel I have poured out my spirit, says the Lord the Eternal.” * * *

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