Open English Translation EZE Chapter 39

39 “Now humanity’s child, prophesy against Gog and say that the master Yahweh says this: Listen, I’m against you, Gog, leader of Meshek and Tuval. 2 I will turn you around and drag you on—I’ll bring you from the far north and take you up to Yisrael’s mountains, 3 Then I’ll knock your bow out of your left hand and make the arrows fall out of your right hand. 4 You and all your troops and soldiers who are with you will die on Yisrael’s mountains. I’ll give you to the birds of prey and the wild animals in the countryside for food. 5 You will fall there in the countryside, because I myself declare it. That is the master Yahweh’s declaration. 6 Then I’ll send fire out onto Magog and on those living in safety in the coastal regions, and then they’ll know that I am Yahweh. 7 I’ll make my holy name known among my people Yisrael, and I’ll no longer allow my holy name to be profaned—the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the holy One in Yisrael.

8 Listen, the day is coming and all that will take place. That is the master Yahweh’s declaration. 9 Those living in Yisrael’s cities will go out and they will use those weapons to kindle and make fires and burn them—small shields, large shields, bows, arrows, the clubs and spears—they’ll make fires with them for seven years. 10 They won’t need to gather firewood from the countryside or cut down trees from the forests, since they’ll burn the weapons. They will take from those invaders who wanted to take from them and plunder those who wanted to plunder them. That is the master Yahweh’s declaration.”

11 Then at that time, I’ll make a grave for Gog there in Yisrael—a valley for those who journey to the east of the sea. They’ll bury Gog there with all his multitudes, and they’ll call it the ‘Hamon-Gog’ (or, ‘Gog’s horde’) valley. That mass grave will block those who wish to cross over. 12 It’ll take seven months for the Israelis to bury them to make the area clean—13 all the people of the land will bury them. It will be a memorable day for them when I’m honoured. That is the master Yahweh’s declaration. 14 At the end of the seven months, they’ll designate men to continually go through the region to find those who were travelling through, but who died and their bodies remained above the ground, so that they can bury them to make the land clean. 15 As those men pass through the land, when they see any human bone, they’ll put a marker by it, until gravediggers come and bury it in the Hamon-Gog valley. 16 There’ll even be a city there named ‘Hamonah’ (which means, ‘horde’ or ‘multitude’). In that way, they’ll make the land clean again.

17 Now humanity’s child, the master Yahweh says this to you: Tell all the winged birds and all the wild animals in the countryside, ‘Gather together and come. Gather from all around to the sacrifice that I myself am making for you—a large sacrifice on Yisrael’s mountains, so that you can eat human flesh and drink blood.[ref] 18 You’ll all consume the flesh of warriors and drink the blood of the world’s leaders as if they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls that were all fattened in Bashan. 19 Then you’ll eat fat until you’re all full and drink blood until you’re all drunk—that will be the sacrifice that I’ll slaughter for you birds and animals. 20 You’ll all be satisfied at my table with horses, chariots, warriors, and every man of war. That is the master Yahweh’s declaration.’

21 I will display my power among the nations, and all the nations will see my judgement that I’ll put into process and how I’ll put that into action against them. 22 Then from that time onwards, the Israeli people will know that I am their God Yahweh. 23 The nations will know that the Israeli people went into captivity because of how they betrayed me with their disobedience, so I distanced myself from them and handed them over to their adversaries so that all of them died in the battle. 24 When I distanced myself from them, I treated them exactly as their defilement and rebellion deserved.

25 Therefore the master Yahweh says this: Now I’ll restore the fortunes of Yakov, and I’ll have compassion on all the descendants of Israel, when I act with zeal to protect my pure reputation. 26 Then they’ll bear their shame and all the treason in which they betrayed me. They’ll forget all that when they rest in their land in safety, with no one to terrify them 27 when I restore them from the peoples and gather them from the lands of their enemies, and I show myself in the sight of many nations to always do what’s right. 28 Then they’ll know that I am Yahweh their God, because I sent them into captivity among the other nations, but then I’ll gather them back to their own land. I won’t leave any of them among the nations. 29 I’ll no longer distance myself from them when I pour out my spirit on the Israeli people. That is the master Yahweh’s declaration.”