Ezekiel 38:7
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New International Version (©2011)
"'Get ready; be prepared, you and all the hordes gathered about you, and take command of them.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Get ready; be prepared! Keep all the armies around you mobilized, and take command of them.

English Standard Version (©2001)
“Be ready and keep ready, you and all your hosts that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Be prepared, and prepare yourself, you and all your companies that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Be prepared and get yourself ready, you and all your company who have been mobilized around you; you will be their guard.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Be prepared. Yes, prepare yourself—you and all of your many battalions that have gathered together around you to protect you.

NET Bible (©2006)
"'Be ready and stay ready, you and all your companies assembled around you, and be a guard for them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
" 'Be prepared! Be prepared, you and all the soldiers assembled around you. You will be their leader.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Be prepared, and prepare for yourself, you, and all your company that are assembled unto you, and be a guard for them.

American King James Version
Be you prepared, and prepare for yourself, you, and all your company that are assembled to you, and be you a guard to them.

American Standard Version
Be thou prepared, yea, prepare thyself, thou, and all thy companies that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Prepare and make thyself ready, and all thy multitude that is assembled about thee, and be thou commander over them.

Darby Bible Translation
Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself thou, and all thine assemblage that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

English Revised Version
Be thou prepared, yea, prepare thyself, thou, and all thy companies that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

Webster's Bible Translation
Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled to thee, and be thou a guard to them.

World English Bible
Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies who are assembled to you, and be a guard to them.

Young's Literal Translation
Be prepared, yea, prepare for thee, Thou and all thine assemblies who are assembled unto thee, And thou hast been to them for a guard.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

38:1-13 These events will be in the latter days. It is supposed these enemies will come together to invade the land of Judea, and God will defeat them. God not only sees who are now the enemies of his church, but he foresees who will be so, and lets them know by his word that he is against them; though they join together, the wicked shall not be unpunished.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself,.... All warlike stores and provisions: this is ironically said; and suggests that he would do so, and yet all would be in vain, and to no purpose:

thou and all thy company, that are assembled unto thee; or all thine armies, as the Targum, gathered out of his dominions, and made up of his auxiliaries and allies; let them all be furnished with arms, and everything proper for the expedition designed:

and be thou a guard unto them; the general of them; let them observe and obey thy word of command; guide and direct, guard and protect them in their march; and take care of them when entered the land of Judea, that they are not exposed to any unnecessary danger, or cut off by any stratagem or ambush: this is also sarcastically said; signifying that let him use all the care and caution that a wise and prudent general can do, yet he and his army should perish.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

7. Irony. Prepare thee and all thine with all needful accoutrements for war—that ye may perish together.

be … a guard unto them—that is, if thou canst.

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Prophecy against Gog
…6Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with you. 7Be you prepared, and prepare for yourself, you, and all your company that are assembled to you, and be you a guard to them. 8After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you shall come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. …

Isaiah 8:9 Raise the war cry, you nations, and be shattered! Listen, all you distant lands. Prepare for battle, and be shattered! Prepare for battle, and be shattered!
Joel 3:9 Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Rouse the warriors! Let all the fighting men draw near and attack.