Prophecy Against Gog

1 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 ^k“Son of man, ^lset your face toward ^mGog, of the land of ⁿMagog, the ^ochief prince of ^pMeshech¹ and ^pTubal, and ^qprophesy against him 3 and say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, ^rI am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech² and Tubal. 4 ^sAnd I will turn you about and ^tput hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and ^uall your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great host, all of them with buckler and shield, wielding swords. 5 ^vPersia, ^wCush, and ^vPut are with them, all of them with shield and helmet; 6 ^xGomer and all his ^yhordes; ^zBeth-togarmah from ^athe uttermost parts of the north with all his hordes—^umany peoples are with you.

7 ^b“Be ready and keep ready, you and all your hosts that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them. 8 ^cAfter many days you will be mustered. ^dIn the latter years you will go against ^dthe land that is restored from war, the land whose people ^ewere gathered from many peoples upon ^fthe mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste. Its people were brought out from the peoples and ^gnow dwell securely, all of them. 9 You will advance, coming on ^hlike a storm. You will be ⁱlike a cloud covering the land, you and all your ^yhordes, and many peoples with you.

10 “Thus says the Lord God: On that day, ^jthoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme 11 and say, ‘I will go up against ^kthe land of unwalled villages. I will fall upon ^lthe quiet people who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having no bars or gates,’ 12 to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against ^mthe waste places that are now inhabited, and ^mthe people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, ⁿwho dwell at the center of the earth. 13 ^oSheba and ^pDedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all ^qits leaders³ will 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?’

14 “Therefore, ^rson of man, prophesy, and say to ^sGog, Thus says the Lord God: On that day when my people Israel are ^gdwelling securely, ^twill you not know it? 15 You will come from your place out of ^uthe uttermost parts of the north, you and ^vmany peoples with you, ^wall of them riding on horses, a great host, a mighty army. 16 You will come up against my people Israel, ⁱlike a cloud covering the land. ^xIn the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, ^yI vindicate my holiness before their eyes.

17 “Thus says the Lord God: Are you ^zhe 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? 18 But on that day, the day that Gog shall come against the land of Israel, declares the Lord God, ^amy wrath will be roused in my anger. 19 For ^bin my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare, On that day ^cthere shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. 20 ^dThe 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, ^eshall quake at my presence. And ^fthe mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground. 21 ^gI will summon a sword against Gog⁴ on all my mountains, declares the Lord God. ^hEvery man’s sword will be against his brother. 22 With pestilence and bloodshed ⁱI will enter into judgment with him, and ^jI will rain upon him and ^khis hordes and the many peoples who are with him ^ltorrential rains and hailstones, ^mfire and sulfur. 23 So I will show my greatness and my ⁿholiness and ^omake myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then ^pthey will know that I am the Lord.

1 “And you, ^qson of man, ^rprophesy against ^sGog and say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, ^tI am against you, O Gog, ^uchief prince of ^vMeshech⁵ and ^vTubal. 2 ^wAnd I will turn you about and drive you forward,⁶ and bring you up from ^xthe uttermost parts of the north, and lead you against the ^ymountains of Israel. 3 Then ^zI will strike your bow from your left hand, and ^zwill make your arrows drop out of your right hand. 4 ^aYou shall fall on ^ythe mountains of Israel, you and all your ^bhordes and the peoples who are with you. ^cI will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. 5 You shall fall in the open field, for ^dI have spoken, declares the Lord God. 6 ^eI will send fire on ^fMagog and on those ^gwho dwell securely in ^hthe coastlands, and ⁱthey shall know that I am the Lord.

7 “And ^jmy holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and ^kI will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. And ^lthe nations shall know that I am ^mthe Lord, the Holy One in Israel. 8 ⁿBehold, it is coming and it will be brought about, declares the Lord God. That is the day ^oof which I have spoken.

9 “Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and ^pmake fires of the weapons and burn them, shields and bucklers, bow and arrows, ^qclubs⁷ and spears; and they will make fires of them for seven years, 10 so that they will not need to take wood out of the field or cut down any out of the forests, for ^pthey will make their fires of the weapons. ^rThey will seize the spoil of those who despoiled them, and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord God.

11 “On that day I will give to ^sGog a place for burial in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers, east of the sea. It will block the travelers, for there Gog and all his multitude will be buried. It will be called the Valley of ^tHamon-gog.⁸ 12 For ^useven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order ^vto cleanse the land. 13 All the people of the land will bury them, and it will bring them renown on the day that ^wI show my glory, declares the Lord God. 14 They will set apart men to travel through the land regularly and bury those travelers remaining on the face of the land, so as ^vto cleanse it. At⁹ the end of ^xseven months they will make their search. 15 And when these travel through the land and anyone sees a human bone, then he shall set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of ^yHamon-gog. 16 (Hamonah¹⁰ is also the name of the city.) Thus shall they cleanse the land.

17 “As for you, ^zson of man, thus says the Lord God: ^aSpeak to ^bthe birds of every sort and to ^ball beasts of the field: ‘Assemble and come, gather from all around to ^cthe sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood. 18 ^dYou shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth—of rams, of lambs, and of he-goats, of bulls, all of them ^efat beasts of Bashan. 19 And you shall eat fat till you are filled, and drink blood till you are drunk, at the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you. 20 And you shall be filled at my table with horses and charioteers, with mighty men and all kinds of warriors,’ declares the Lord God.

21 “And ^fI will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see ^gmy judgment that I have executed, and ^gmy hand that I have laid on them. 22 ^hThe house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God, from that day forward. 23 And ⁱthe nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that ^jI hid my face from them and ^kgave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword. 24 I dealt with them ^laccording to their uncleanness and their transgressions, and hid my face from them.

The Lord Will Restore Israel

25 “Therefore thus says the Lord God: Now ^mI will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on ⁿthe whole house of Israel, and ^oI will be jealous for my holy name. 26 They shall ^pforget their shame and all the treachery they have practiced against me, when ^qthey dwell securely in their land with ^rnone to make them afraid, 27 ^swhen I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies’ lands, ^tand through them have vindicated my holiness in the sight of many nations. 28 ^hThen they shall know that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore. 29 ^uAnd I will not hide my face anymore from them, when ^vI pour out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord God.”

A Lament over Pharaoh and Egypt

1 ^eIn the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: 2 ^f“Son of man, ^graise a lamentation over ^hPharaoh king of Egypt and say to him:

9 “I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries that you have not known. 10 ^uI will make many peoples appalled at you, and the hair of their kings shall bristle with horror because of you, when ^vI brandish my sword before them. ^wThey shall tremble every moment, every one for his own life, on the day of your downfall.

11 “For thus says the Lord God: ^xThe sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you. 12 I will cause ^yyour multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them ^zmost ruthless of nations.

16 ^fThis is a lamentation that shall be chanted; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt, and over ^gall her multitude, shall they chant it, declares the Lord God.”

17 ^hIn the twelfth year, in the twelfth month,³ on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: 18 ⁱ“Son of man, ^jwail over ^gthe multitude of Egypt, and ^ksend them down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, ^lto the world below, to those who have gone down to the pit:

20 They shall fall amid those ^owho are slain by the sword. Egypt⁴ is delivered to the sword; drag her away, and ^pall her multitudes. 21 The mighty chiefs ^qshall speak of them, ^rwith their helpers, out of the midst of Sheol: ‘They have come down, they lie still, ^sthe uncircumcised, ^oslain by the sword.’

22 ^t“Assyria is there, and all her company, ^uits graves all around it, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, 23 whose graves are set in ^vthe uttermost parts of the pit; and her company is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, ^wwho spread terror ^xin the land of the living.

24 ^y“Elam is ^zthere, and all her multitude around her grave; all of them ^aslain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised into ^bthe world below, who spread their terror in the land of the living; and ^cthey bear their shame ^bwith those who go down to the pit. 25 ^dThey have made her a bed among the slain with all her multitude, ^eher graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for terror of them was spread in the land of the living, and they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit; they are placed among the slain.

26 ^f“Meshech-Tubal is ^ethere, and all her multitude, ^eher graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they spread their terror in the land of the living. 27 And ^gthey do not lie with the mighty, the fallen from among the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were laid under their heads, and whose iniquities are upon their bones; for the terror of the mighty men was in the land of the living. 28 But as for you, you shall be broken ^hand lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword.

29 ⁱ“Edom is ^jthere, her kings and all her princes, who for all their might are laid with those who are killed by the sword; they lie with the uncircumcised, with those who go down to the pit.

30 “The princes ^kof the north are there, all of them, and all the ^lSidonians, who have gone down in shame with the slain, ^mfor all the terror that they caused by their might; they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and ⁿbear their shame with those who go down to the pit.

31 “When Pharaoh sees them, he ^owill be comforted for ^pall his multitude, Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, declares the Lord God. 32 ^qFor I spread terror ^rin the land of the living; and he shall be laid to rest among ^sthe uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord God.”

Ezekiel Is Israel’s Watchman

1 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 ^t“Son of man, speak to ^uyour people and say to them, If ^vI bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their ^wwatchman, 3 and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and ^xblows the trumpet and warns the people, 4 then if anyone who hears the sound of the trumpet does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, ^yhis blood shall be upon his own head. 5 ^zHe heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But if he had taken warning, he would have saved his life. 6 ^aBut if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, ^athat person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.

7 ^b“So you, ^tson of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel. ^bWhenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me. 8 ^cIf I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die, ^cand you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, ^cthat wicked person shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. 9 ^dBut if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, ^dthat person shall die in his iniquity, ^ebut you will have delivered your soul.

Why Will You Die, Israel?

10 “And you, ^fson of man, say to the house of Israel, Thus have you said: ‘Surely our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and ^gwe rot away because of them. ^hHow then can we live?’ 11 Say to them, ⁱAs I live, declares the Lord God, ^jI have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; ^kturn back, turn back from your evil ways, ^kfor why will you die, O house of Israel?

12 ^t“And you, son of man, say to ^lyour people, ^mThe righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him when he transgresses, ⁿand as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it when he turns from his wickedness, ^mand the righteous shall not be able to live by his righteousness¹ when he sins. 13 Though I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet ^mif he trusts in his righteousness and does injustice, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his injustice that he has done he shall die. 14 Again, ^othough I say to the wicked, ^p‘You shall surely die,’ yet ^qif he turns from his sin and does what is just and right, 15 if the wicked ^rrestores the pledge, ^sgives back what he has taken by robbery, and walks ^tin the statutes of life, not doing injustice, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 16 ^uNone of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he shall surely live.

17 “Yet ^lyour people say, ^v‘The way of the Lord is not just,’ when it is their own way that is not just. 18 ^wWhen the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it. 19 And ^xwhen the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he shall live by this. 20 Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ O house of Israel, ^yI will judge each of you according to his ways.”

30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Judeans 745 persons; all the persons were 4,600.