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| 39:1 |
And you, mortal, prophesy against Gog, and say: Thus says the Lord GOD: I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal!
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| 39:2 |
I will turn you around and drive you forward, and bring you up from the remotest parts of the north, and lead you against the mountains of Israel.
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| 39:3 |
I will strike your bow from your left hand, and will make your arrows drop out of your right hand.
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| 39:4 |
You shall fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples that are with you; I will give you to birds of prey of every kind and to the wild animals to be devoured.
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| 39:5 |
You shall fall in the open field; for I have spoken, says the Lord GOD.
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| 39:6 |
I will send fire on Magog and on those who live securely in the coastlands; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
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| 39:7 |
My holy name I will make known among my people Israel; and I will not let my holy name be profaned any more; and the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
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| 39:8 |
It has come! It has happened, says the Lord GOD. This is the day of which I have spoken.
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| 39:9 |
Then those who live in the towns of Israel will go out and make fires of the weapons and burn them-- bucklers and shields, bows and arrows, handpikes and spears-- and they will make fires of them for seven years.
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| 39:10 |
They will not need to take wood out of the field or cut down any trees in the forests, for they will make their fires of the weapons; they will despoil those who despoiled them, and plunder those who plundered them, says the Lord GOD.
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| 39:11 |
On that day I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers east of the sea; it shall block the path of the travelers, for there Gog and all his horde will be buried; it shall be called the Valley of Hamon-gog.
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| 39:12 |
Seven months the house of Israel shall spend burying them, in order to cleanse the land.
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| 39:13 |
All the people of the land shall bury them; and it will bring them honor on the day that I show my glory, says the Lord GOD.
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| 39:14 |
They will set apart men to pass through the land regularly and bury any invaders who remain on the face of the land, so as to cleanse it; for seven months they shall make their search.
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| 39:15 |
As the searchers pass through the land, anyone who sees a human bone shall set up a sign by it, until the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.
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| 39:16 |
(A city Hamonah is there also.) Thus they shall cleanse the land.
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| 39:17 |
As for you, mortal, thus says the Lord GOD: Speak to the birds of every kind and to all the wild animals: Assemble and come, gather from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood.
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| 39:18 |
You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth-- of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
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| 39:19 |
You shall eat fat until you are filled, and drink blood until you are drunk, at the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you.
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| 39:20 |
And you shall be filled at my table with horses and charioteers, with warriors and all kinds of soldiers, says the Lord GOD.
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| 39:21 |
I will display my glory among the nations; and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
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| 39:22 |
The house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God, from that day forward.
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| 39:23 |
And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt treacherously with me. So I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.
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| 39:24 |
I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their transgressions, and hid my face from them.
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| 39:25 |
Therefore 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.
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| 39:26 |
They shall forget their shame, and all the treachery they have practiced against me, when they live securely in their land with no one to make them afraid,
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| 39:27 |
when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies' lands, and through them have displayed my holiness in the sight of many nations.
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| 39:28 |
Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God because I sent them into exile among the nations, and then gathered them into their own land. I will leave none of them behind;
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| 39:29 |
and I will never again hide my face from them, when I pour out my spirit upon the house of Israel, says the Lord GOD.
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