God’s Message to Gog

1 And the word of Yahweh cameto me, saying,

2 “Son of man,set your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the headleader of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him.

3 And you must say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Look! I am against you, Gog, the headleader of Meshach and Tubal,

4 and I will turn you around, and I will placehooks in your cheeks, and I will bring you out and all of your horses and horsemen fully armed,all of them, a great crowd, holding a shield,and small shield, and holdingswords, all of them.

5 Persia, Cush, and Put are with them, all of them, with a small shield and helmet.

6 Gomer and all of its troops, Beth Togarmah, the remote areas of the north, and with all of its troops and many peoples with them.

7 Be ready, and prepare yourselves,you and all of your assembly,the assemblingaround you, and you must befor them as a guard.

8 After many days you will be mustered; in the last yearsyou will come to a restored land from the sword, gathered from many peoples on the mountains of Israel which were as permanent ruinsbut from peoples it was brought out, and they will dwell in safety,all of them.

9 And you will advance like a storm; you will come, and you will be like a cloud coveringthe land, and all of your troops and many nations along with you.”

10 “ ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “And thenon that day, thingswill come up onyour mind, and you will devise evil plans.

11 And you will say, ‘I will go up against a land of open country; I will cometo the people being at rest in safety,all of them dwelling without a walland crossbarsand without doors,

12 toloot loot,and to plunderplunder, to assailinhabited ruins and a people gathered together from various peoples and who are acquiring livestock and goods and dwelling at the center of the world.

13 Sheba and Dedan and traders of Tarshish and all its strong lions,they will ask you, ‘Toloot lootare you coming? To plunderplunder have you summoned your assembly, to take away silver and gold, to take livestock and goods, to loot great amountsof loot?” ’

14 “Therefore prophesy, son of man,and you must say to Gog, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Will you not realizeon that day when my people Israel are dwelling in safety,

15 and so you will come from your place, from the remote areas of the north, you and many people with you, horsemenall of them, a great crowd and a vast army,

16 and you will advance against my people Israel like a cloud coveringthe land; it will bein the last days, and I will bring you against my land, so that the nations know me, when I show myself holy through you before their eyes, O Gog!” ’

17 “Thus says the Lord Yahweh, ‘Are you he of whom I spoke in former days by the hand of my servants the prophets of Israel who were prophesying in those days for years that I would bring you against them?

18 And so then in that day, on the day of the coming of God against the land of Israel,’ declaresthe Lord Yahweh, ‘my rage will come up in my anger.

19 And in my passion, in the fire of my wrath, I spokethat certainlyon that day a great earthquake will be on the land of Israel.

20 And the fish of the sea and the birdsof the heavenand the animalsof the field and all of the creeping things that creep on the earth and all of the humanswho are on the surface of the earth will shake at my presence;and the mountains will be demolished, and the steep mountain sides will fall, and every wall onthe earth will fall.

21 And I will call against himin all of my mountains a sword,’ declaresthe Lord Yahweh, ‘And the sword of each person will be against his brother.

22 And I will execute justice withhim with a plague and with blood and torrents of rain,and hailstones; fire and sulfur I will cause to fall on him and on his troops and on many peoples who are with him.

23 And so I will exalt myself, and I will show myself holy, and I will make myself known before the eyes of many nations, and they will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”