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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The word of the LORD came to me: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshek and Tubal; prophesy against him |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3and say: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshek and Tubal. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army--your horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Persia, Cush and Put will be with them, all with shields and helmets, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah from the far north with all its troops--the many nations with you. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"'Get ready; be prepared, you and all the hordes gathered about you, and take command of them. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8After many days you will be called to arms. In future years you will invade 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 now all of them live in safety. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9You and all your troops and the many nations with you will go up, advancing like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil scheme. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11You will say, "I will invade a land of unwalled villages; I will attack a peaceful and unsuspecting people--all of them living without walls and without gates and bars. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I will plunder and loot and turn my hand against the resettled ruins and the people gathered from the nations, rich in livestock and goods, living at the center of the land." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all her villages will say to you, "Have you come to plunder? Have you gathered your hordes to loot, to carry off silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods and to seize much plunder?"' |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: In that day, when my people Israel are living in safety, will you not take notice of it? |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15You will come from your place in the far north, you and many nations with you, all of them riding on horses, a great horde, a mighty army. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16You will advance against my people Israel like a cloud that covers the land. In days to come, Gog, I will bring you against my land, so that the nations may know me when I am proved holy through you before their eyes. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You are the one I spoke of in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel. At that time they prophesied for years that I would bring you against them. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18This is what will happen in that day: When Gog attacks the land of Israel, my hot anger will be aroused, declares the Sovereign LORD. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19In my zeal and fiery wrath I declare that at that time there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20The fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the beasts of the field, every creature that moves along the ground, and all the people on the face of the earth will tremble at my presence. The mountains will be overturned, the cliffs will crumble and every wall will fall to the ground. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21I will summon a sword against Gog on all my mountains, declares the Sovereign LORD. Every man's sword will be against his brother. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22I will execute judgment on him with plague and bloodshed; I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones and burning sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23And so I will show my greatness and my holiness, and I will make myself known in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.' |
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