| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal; |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2and I will turn you around, drive you on, take you up from the remotest parts of the north and bring you against the mountains of Israel. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"I will strike your bow from your left hand and dash down your arrows from your right hand. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"You will fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; I will give you as food to every kind of predatory bird and beast of the field. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"You will fall on the open field; for it is I who have spoken," declares the Lord GOD. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"And I will send fire upon Magog and those who inhabit the coastlands in safety; and they will know that I am the LORD. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"My holy name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel; and I will not let My holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Behold, it is coming and it shall be done," declares the Lord GOD. "That is the day of which I have spoken. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Then those who inhabit the cities of Israel will go out and make fires with the weapons and burn them, both shields and bucklers, bows and arrows, war clubs and spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"They will not take wood from the field or gather firewood from the forests, for they will make fires with the weapons; and they will take the spoil of those who despoiled them and seize the plunder of those who plundered them," declares the Lord GOD. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"On that day I will give Gog a burial ground there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea, and it will block off those who would pass by. So they will bury Gog there with all his horde, and they will call it the valley of Hamon-gog. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Even all the people of the land will bury them; and it will be to their renown on the day that I glorify Myself," declares the Lord GOD. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"They will set apart men who will constantly pass through the land, burying those who were passing through, even those left on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"As those who pass through the land pass through and anyone sees a man's bone, then he will set up a marker by it until the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"And even the name of the city will be Hamonah. So they will cleanse the land."' |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Speak to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field, "Assemble and come, gather from every side to My sacrifice which I am going to sacrifice for you, as a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, as though they were rams, lambs, goats and bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"So you will eat fat until you are glutted, and drink blood until you are drunk, from My sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"You will be glutted at My table with horses and charioteers, with mighty men and all the men of war," declares the Lord GOD. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"And I will set My glory among the nations; and all the nations will see My judgment which I have executed and My hand which I have laid on them. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"And the house of Israel will know that I am the LORD their God from that day onward. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their iniquity because they acted treacherously against Me, and I hid My face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and all of them fell by the sword. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I dealt with them, and I hid My face from them."'" |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"They will forget their disgrace and all their treachery which they perpetrated against Me, when they live securely on their own land with no one to make them afraid. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27"When I bring them back from the peoples and gather them from the lands of their enemies, then I shall be sanctified through them in the sight of the many nations. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28"Then they will know that I am the LORD their God because I made them go into exile among the nations, and then gathered them again to their own land; and I will leave none of them there any longer. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29"I will not hide My face from them any longer, for I will have poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel," declares the Lord GOD. |
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