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Chapter 38 |
| 1 | And the word
of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| 2 | Son of man, set thy face
against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and
prophesy against him, |
| 3 | And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I
am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: |
| 4 | And I
will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth,
and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of
armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling
swords: |
| 5 |
Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield
and helmet: |
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| Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the
north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee. |
| 7 | Be
thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are
assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them. |
| 8 | After many
days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land
that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people,
against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is
brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of
them. |
| 9 |
Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a
cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with
thee. |
| 10 |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at
the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil
thought: |
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| And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled
villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them
dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, |
| 12 | To take
a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that
are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations,
which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
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| 13 | Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young
lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou
gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take
away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? |
| 14 | Therefore,
son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day
when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it? |
| 15 |
And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many
people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty
army: |
| 16 |
And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud
to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee
against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in
thee, O Gog, before their eyes. |
| 17 | Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art
thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of
Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee
against them? |
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18 | And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog
shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall
come up in my face. |
| 19 | For in my jealousy and in the fire of my
wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the
land of Israel; |
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20 | So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the
heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon
the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at
my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall
fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. |
| 21 | And I will
call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD:
every man's sword shall be against his brother. |
| 22 | And I will
plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and
upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing
rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. |
| 23 | Thus will I
magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many
nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD. |
