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38 : 1 The word of theLordcame to me:
38 : 2 Son of man,set your face towardGog, of the land ofMagog, thechief prince ofMeshechandTubal, andprophesy against him
38 : 3 and say, Thus says the LordGod: Behold,I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshechand Tubal.
38 : 4 And I will turn you about andput hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, andall your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great host, all of them with buckler and shield, wielding swords.
38 : 5 Persia,Cush, andPut are with them, all of them with shield and helmet;
38 : 6 Gomer and all hishordes;Beth-togarmah fromthe uttermost parts of the north with all his hordes&emdash;many peoples are with you.
38 : 7 Be ready and keep ready, you and all your hosts that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them.
38 : 8 After many days you will be mustered.In the latter years you will go againstthe land that is restored from war, the land whose peoplewere gathered from many peoples uponthe mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste. Its people were brought out from the peoples andnow dwell securely, all of them.
38 : 9 You will advance, coming onlike a storm. You will belike a cloud covering the land, you and all yourhordes, and many peoples with you.
38 : 10 Thus says the LordGod: On that day,thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme
38 : 11 and say,I will go up againstthe land of unwalled villages. I will fall uponthe quiet people who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having no bars or gates,
38 : 12 to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand againstthe waste places that are now inhabited, andthe people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods,who dwell at the center of the earth.
38 : 13 Sheba andDedan and the merchants of Tarshish and allits leaderswill say to you,Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hosts to carry off plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to seize great spoil?
38 : 14 Therefore,son of man, prophesy, and say toGog, Thus says the LordGod: On that day when my people Israel aredwelling securely,will you not know it?
38 : 15 You will come from your place out ofthe uttermost parts of the north, you andmany peoples with you,all of them riding on horses, a great host, a mighty army.
38 : 16 You will come up against my people Israel,like a cloud covering the land.In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog,I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
38 : 17 Thus says the LordGod: Are youhe of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who in those days prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?
38 : 18 But on that day, the day that Gog shall come against the land of Israel, declares the LordGod,my wrath will be roused in my anger.
38 : 19 Forin my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare, On that daythere shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.
38 : 20 The fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep on the ground, and all the people who are on the face of the earth,shall quake at my presence. Andthe mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground.
38 : 21 I will summon a sword against Gogon all my mountains, declares the LordGod.Every man's sword will be against his brother.
38 : 22 With pestilence and bloodshedI will enter into judgment with him, andI will rain upon him andhis hordes and the many peoples who are with himtorrential rains and hailstones,fire and sulfur.
38 : 23 So I will show my greatness and myholiness andmake myself known in the eyes of many nations. Thenthey will know that I am theLord.