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Gog's Armies Are Destroyed

¹ "Son of man, speak against Gog, and tell him, ‘The Lord God says, "I am against you, O Gog, leader of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. ² I will turn you around and drive you on. I will bring you from the farthest parts of the north and lead you against the mountains of Israel. ³ I will knock your bow out of your left hand, and knock your arrows out of your right hand. ⁴ You will fall dead on the mountains of Israel, you and all your army and the nations who are with you. I will feed you to every kind of meat-eating bird and wild animal of the field. ⁵ You will fall dead in the open field, for I have spoken," says the Lord God. ⁶ "I will send fire upon Magog and upon those who think they are safe in the islands. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

⁷ "I will make My holy name known among My people Israel. I will not let My holy name be made unclean any more. And the nations will know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. ⁸ It is coming, and it will be done," says the Lord God. "This is the day I have spoken of.

⁹ "Then those who live in the cities of Israel will go out and make fires to burn up the objects of war. They will burn battle-coverings, bows and arrows, heavy sticks, and spears. For seven years they will use them to make fires. ¹⁰ They will not take wood from the field or from among the trees to burn. For they will make fires with the objects of war. And they will rob those who robbed them," says the Lord God.

Gog Is Buried

¹¹ "On that day I will give Gog a place in Israel for burying his dead. It will be the valley of those who travel east of the sea. And it will close that road to travelers, for Gog and all his people will be buried there. They will call it the Valley of Hamon-Gog. ¹² It will take the people of Israel seven months to bury the dead and make the land clean again. ¹³ All the people of the land will bury them, and they will be honored for this on the day that I show My greatness," says the Lord God. ¹⁴ "At the end of seven months, they will choose men to pass through the land to look for bodies that may be left on the ground. And the bodies will be buried to make the land clean. ¹⁵ Those who pass through and see a man's bone will set up something to mark the place, until it is buried in the Valley of Hamon-Gog. ¹⁶ (There will be a city called Hamonah there also.) And so they will make the land clean."'"

¹⁷ "Son of man, the Lord God says, ‘Speak to every kind of bird and to every wild animal of the field. Say to them, "Gather together and come. Come together from every side to the special supper I have made for you. Much food has been killed for you on the mountains of Israel. You will eat flesh and drink blood. ¹⁸ You will eat the flesh of powerful men, and drink the blood of the leaders of the earth. It will be as if they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls, all of them fat animals of Bashan. ¹⁹ You will eat fat until you are filled, and drink blood until you are drunk, at the special supper I have killed and made ready for you. ²⁰ You will be filled at My table with horses and horsemen, with powerful men and all the men of war," says the Lord God.

The Land Is Given Back to Israel

²¹ "I will show My greatness among the nations. All the nations will see how I have punished Israel and My hand which I have laid on them. ²² Then the people of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God from that day on. ²³ The nations will know that the people of Israel were taken from their land because of their sin, because they were not faithful to Me. So I hid My face from them and gave them over to those who hated them, and they died in battle. ²⁴ I punished them because they were unclean and sinful, and I hid My face from them."'"

²⁵ So the Lord God says, "Now I will return the people of Jacob to their land and show loving-kindness to all the people of Israel. And I will be jealous for My holy name. ²⁶ They will forget their shame and how unfaithful they were to Me, when they live in peace on their own land with no one to make them afraid. ²⁷ I will bring them back from the nations and gather them from the lands of those who hate them. In this way I will show the many nations that I am holy. ²⁸ Then they will know that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them away into the other nations and then gathered them again to their own land. And I will not leave any of them there any longer. ²⁹ I will not hide My face from them again, for I will pour out My Spirit on the people of Israel," says the Lord God.