Ezekiel 38
A Prophecy against Gog
4I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws, and bring you out with all your army—your horses, your horsemen in full armor, and a great company armed with shields and bucklers, all brandishing their swords.
4And I will turn you around, and I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will bring you out and all your army—horses and horsemen, all clothed in perfection, a great company, with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords.
8After a long time you will be summoned. In the latter years you will enter a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and all now dwell securely.
8After many days you will be mustered; in the latter years, you will come into a land having returned from the sword, having been gathered from many peoples, upon the mountains of Israel, which had been continually as a desolation. From the nations it has been brought out, and they will dwell in safety, all of them.
11You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will come against a quiet people who dwell securely, all of them living without walls or bars or gates—
11And you will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages, I will go in to those living quietly, dwelling in security—all of them dwelling with no walls, and bars and gates not unto them—
12in order to seize the spoil and carry off the plunder, to turn a hand against the desolate places now inhabited and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and possessions and who live at the center of the land.’
12to draw out the plunder and to prey on the prey, to stretch out my hand against the desolate places now inhabited, and against a people gathered from the nations, having gained livestock and possessions, dwelling in the center of the land.’
13Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villagesa will ask, ‘Have you come to capture the plunder? Have you assembled your hordes to carry away loot, to make off with silver and gold, to take cattle and goods, to seize great spoil?’
13Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, and all her villages, will say to you, ‘Have you come to draw out the plunder? Is it to prey on prey that you have assembled your company—to carry off silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to draw out great plunder?’
14Therefore prophesy, son of man, and tell Gog that this is what the Lord GOD says: On that day when My people Israel are dwelling securely, will you not take notice of this?a
14Therefore, prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog—thus says the Lord YHWH: On that day, with the dwelling of My people Israel in safety, will you not know it?
15And you will come from your place out of the far north—you and many peoples with you, all riding horses—a mighty horde, a huge army.
15And you will come from your place, from the extremities of the north, you and many peoples with you, riding on horses all of them, a great company, and a numerous army.
16You will advance against My people Israel like a cloud covering the land. It will happen in the latter days, O Gog, that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I show Myself holy in you before their eyes.
16And you will come up against My people Israel, like a cloud to cover the land. In the latter days it will come to pass that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me, in My showing My holiness in you before their eyes, O Gog!
17This is what the Lord GOD says: Are you the one of whom I have spoken in former days through My servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those times prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?
17Thus says the Lord YHWH: Are you he of whom I have spoken in former days by My servants, the prophets of Israel, those having prophesied in those days, for years, of My bringing you against them?
20The fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, every creature that crawls upon the ground, and all mankind on the face of the earth will tremble at My presence. The mountains will be thrown down, the cliffs will collapse, and every wall will fall to the ground.
20and they will shake before My face—the fish of the sea, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the field, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, and every man who is on the face of the earth. And the mountains will be thrown down, and the steep places will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground.
22I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrents of rain, hailstones, fire, and sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.
22And I will bring judgment on him with pestilence and with blood, and flooding rain and stones of hail. I will rain down fire and brimstone on him, and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him.