Ezekiel 39
Open in the reader1“As for you, O son of man, prophesy against Gog and declare that this is what the Lord He-Who-Is says: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.
2I will turn you around, drive you along, bring you up from the far north, and send you against the mountains of Strives-with-God.
3Then I will strike the bow from your left hand and dash down the arrows from your right hand.
4On the mountains of Strives-with-God you will fall—you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast.
5You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Lord He-Who-Is.
6I will send fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the coastlands, and they will know that I am He-Who-Is.
7So I will make My devoted name known among My people Strives-with-God and will no longer allow it to be profaned. Then the nations will know that I am He-Who-Is, the Devoted One in Strives-with-God.
8Yes, it is coming, and it will surely happen, declares the Lord He-Who-Is. This is the day of which I have spoken.
9Then those who dwell in the cities of Strives-with-God will go out, kindle fires, and burn up the weapons—the bucklers and shields, the bows and arrows, the clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel.
10They will not gather wood from the countryside or cut it from the forests, for they will use the weapons for fuel. They will loot those who looted them and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord He-Who-Is.
11And on that day I will give Gog a burial place in Strives-with-God, the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Sea. It will block those who travel through, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Multitude-gog.
12For seven months the house of Strives-with-God will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.
13All the people of the land will bury them, and it will bring them renown on the day I display My glory, declares the Lord He-Who-Is.
14And men will be employed to continually pass through the land to cleanse it by burying the invaders who remain on the ground. At the end of the seven months they will begin their search.
15As they pass through the land, anyone who sees a human bone will set up a pillar next to it, until the gravediggers have buried it in the Valley of Multitude-gog.
16(Even the city will be named Multitude.) And so they will cleanse the land.
17And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord He-Who-Is says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great feast on the mountains of Strives-with-God. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.
18You will eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all the fattened animals of Fertile-Plain.
19At the sacrifice I am preparing, you will eat fat until you are gorged and drink blood until you are drunk.
20And at My table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, of mighty men and warriors of every kind,’ declares the Lord He-Who-Is.
21I will display My glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the judgment that I execute and the hand that I lay upon them.
22From that day forward the house of Strives-with-God will know that I am He-Who-Is their God.
23And the nations will know that the house of Strives-with-God went into exile for their iniquity, because they were unfaithful to Me. So I hid My face from them and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, so that they all fell by the sword.
24I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and transgressions, and I hid My face from them.
25Therefore this is what the Lord He-Who-Is says: Now I will restore Heel-Grabber from captivity and will have compassion on the whole house of Strives-with-God, and I will be jealous for My devoted name.
26They will forget their disgrace and all the treachery they committed against Me, when they dwell securely in their land, with no one to frighten them.
27When I bring them back from the peoples and gather them out of the lands of their enemies, I will show My devotedness in them in the sight of many nations.
28Then they will know that I am He-Who-Is their God, when I regather them to their own land, not leaving any of them behind after their exile among the nations.
29And I will no longer hide My face from them, for I will pour out My Spirit on the house of Strives-with-God, declares the Lord He-Who-Is.”