CHAPTER 39

¹And you, man, prophesy concerning Gog and say, “Thus said the Master, the LORD: Here I am against you, Gog, supreme prince of Meshech and Tubal. ²I will lead you and take you along and bring you up from the far reaches of the north and bring you to the mountains of Israel. ³And I will strike your bow from your left hand and will make your arrows drop from your right hand. ⁴On the mountains of Israel you shall fall, and all your divisions and the people that are with you. I will make you food for carrion birds, every winged thing, and for beasts of the field. ⁵On the surface of the field you shall fall, for I have spoken, said the Master, the LORD. ⁶And I will send fire against Magog and against those who dwell secure in the coastlands, and they shall know that I am the LORD. ⁷And My holy name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel, and I will no longer let My holy name be profaned, and the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel. ⁸Look, it has come and now it is, said the Master, the LORD, it is the day of which I spoke. ⁹And the dwellers of Israel’s towns shall go out and light fires with the weapons, the bucklers and shields, with the bows and with the arrows and with the clubs and with the spears, and they shall light fires with them for seven years. ¹⁰And they shall not carry off wood from the field nor cut down trees from the forests, for with weapons they shall light fires. And they shall plunder their plunderers and loot their looters, said the Master, the LORD. ¹¹And it shall happen on that day that I will give Gog a burial place there in Israel, in the Valley of Those Who Pass Through, east of the sea, and it blocks those who pass through. And they shall bury Gog there with all his throng and call it the Valley of the Throng of Gog. ¹²And the house of Israel shall bury them so as to cleanse the land, for seven months. ¹³And all the people of the land shall do the burying, and the day I am granted glory shall be a famous thing for them, said the Master, the LORD. ¹⁴And perpetually appointed men shall separate those who pass through the land, burying those who pass through, the ones left on the surface of the land, to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they shall probe it. ¹⁵And those who pass through the land shall pass through, and should someone see a human bone, he shall build by it a marker till the buriers bury it in the Valley of the Throng of Gog. ¹⁶And the name of the town, too, is Throng. And they shall cleanse the land. ¹⁷And you, man, Thus said the Master, the LORD: Say to the birds, every winged thing, and to all the beasts of the field—Gather and come, assemble from all around for My sacrificial feast that I am about to sacrifice for you, a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel. And you shall eat flesh and drink blood. ¹⁸The flesh of warriors you shall eat, and the blood of princes of the earth you shall drink, rams, lambs, and he-goats, bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan. ¹⁹And you shall eat suet to satiety and drink blood to drunkenness, from My sacrificial feast that I have prepared for you. ²⁰And you shall be sated at My table with horse and chariot, warrior and every man of war, said the Master, the LORD. ²¹And I will set out My glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see My judgment that I have done and My hand that I set against them. ²²And all the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day onward. ²³And the nations shall know that for their crime the house of Israel went into exile, because they betrayed Me and I hid My face from them and gave them into the hand of their foes, and they all fell by the sword. ²⁴According to their defilement and according to their trespasses I dealt with them and hid My face from them. ²⁵Therefore, Thus said the Master, the LORD: Now will I restore the fortunes of Jacob and show mercy to the house of Israel and be zealous for My holy name. ²⁶And they shall forget their disgrace and all their betrayal that they committed against Me when they dwell secure upon their soil with none to make them tremble, ²⁷when I lead them back from the peoples and gather them from the lands of their enemies. And I will be hallowed through them before the eyes of many nations. ²⁸And they shall know that I am the LORD when having exiled them among the nations I gather them in upon their soil and do not leave any of them there anymore. ²⁹And I will not hide My face from them anymore, as I have poured out My spirit upon the house of Israel,” said the Master, the LORD.