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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"Son of man, prophesy against Gog and say: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshek and Tubal. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2I will turn you around and drag you along. I will bring you from the far north and send you against the mountains of Israel. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Then I will strike your bow from your left hand and make your arrows drop from your right hand. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to all kinds of carrion birds and to the wild animals. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in safety in the coastlands, and they will know that I am the LORD. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"'I will make known my holy name among my people Israel. I will no longer let my holy name be profaned, and the nations will know that I the LORD am the Holy One in Israel. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8It is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign LORD. This is the day I have spoken of. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"'Then those who live in the towns of Israel will go out and use the weapons for fuel and burn them up--the small and large shields, the bows and arrows, the war clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10They will not need to gather wood from the fields or cut it from the forests, because they will use the weapons for fuel. And they will plunder those who plundered them and loot those who looted them, declares the Sovereign LORD. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"'On that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, in the valley of those who travel east of the Sea. It will block the way of travelers, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon Gog. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"'For seven months the Israelites will be burying them in order to cleanse the land. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13All the people of the land will bury them, and the day I display my glory will be a memorable day for them, declares the Sovereign LORD. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14People will be continually employed in cleansing the land. They will spread out across the land and, along with others, they will bury any bodies that are lying on the ground. "'After the seven months they will carry out a more detailed search. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15As they go through the land, anyone who sees a human bone will leave a marker beside it until the gravediggers bury it in the Valley of Hamon Gog, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16near a town called Hamonah. And so they will cleanse the land.' |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"Son of man, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Call out to every kind of bird and all the wild animals: 'Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrifice I am preparing for you, the great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as if they were rams and lambs, goats and bulls--all of them fattened animals from Bashan. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19At the sacrifice I am preparing for you, you will eat fat till you are glutted and drink blood till you are drunk. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20At my table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, mighty men and soldiers of every kind,' declares the Sovereign LORD. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"I will display my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the punishment I inflict and the hand I lay on them. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22From that day forward the people of Israel will know that I am the LORD their God. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23And the nations will know that the people of Israel went into exile for their sin, because they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies, and they all fell by the sword. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their offenses, and I hid my face from them. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25"Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will now restore the fortunes of Jacob and will have compassion on all the people of Israel, and I will be zealous for my holy name. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26They will forget their shame and all the unfaithfulness they showed toward me when they lived in safety in their land with no one to make them afraid. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27When I have brought them back from the nations and have gathered them from the countries of their enemies, I will be proved holy through them in the sight of many nations. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Then they will know that I am the LORD their God, for though I sent them into exile among the nations, I will gather them to their own land, not leaving any behind. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29I will no longer hide my face from them, for I will pour out my Spirit on the people of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD." |
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