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Ezekiel 39 :: New International Version (NIV)

Eze 39:1“Son of man, prophesy against Gog and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, Gog, chief prince of[fn] Meshek and Tubal.
Eze 39:2I will turn you around and drag you along. I will bring you from the far north and send you against the mountains of Israel.
Eze 39:3Then I will strike your bow from your left hand and make your arrows drop from your right hand.
Eze 39:4On 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.
Eze 39:5You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Eze 39:6I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in safety in the coastlands, and they will know that I am the LORD.
Eze 39:7“ ‘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.
Eze 39:8It is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign LORD. This is the day I have spoken of.
Eze 39:9“ ‘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.
Eze 39:10They 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.
Eze 39:11“ ‘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.[fn]
Eze 39:12“ ‘For seven months the Israelites will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.
Eze 39:13All 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.
Eze 39:14People 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.
Eze 39:15As 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,
Eze 39:16near a town called Hamonah.[fn] And so they will cleanse the land.’
Eze 39:17“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.
Eze 39:18You 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.
Eze 39:19At the sacrifice I am preparing for you, you will eat fat till you are glutted and drink blood till you are drunk.
Eze 39:20At my table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, mighty men and soldiers of every kind,’ declares the Sovereign LORD.
Eze 39:21“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.
Eze 39:22From that day forward the people of Israel will know that I am the LORD their God.
Eze 39:23And 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.
Eze 39:24I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their offenses, and I hid my face from them.
Eze 39:25“Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will now restore the fortunes of Jacob[fn] and will have compassion on all the people of Israel, and I will be zealous for my holy name.
Eze 39:26They 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.
Eze 39:27When 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.
Eze 39:28Then 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.
Eze 39:29I will no longer hide my face from them, for I will pour out my Spirit on the people of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
NIV Footnotes
Or Gog, prince of Rosh,
Hamon Gog means hordes of Gog.
Hamonah means horde.
Or now bring Jacob back from captivity
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