| 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: |
| 6 | 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: |
| 11 | 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. |
| 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? |
| 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; |
| 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. |
