Ezekiel 38
1 And the word of the Lord came to me,
saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face
against Gog, and the land of Magog, Rhos, prince of Mesoch and Thobel, and
prophesy against him, 3 and say to
him, Thus saith the Lord God;
Behold, I am against thee, Rhos prince of Mesoch and Thobel:
4 and I will gather thee, and all
thine host, horses and horsemen, all wearing breast-plates, with a great
multitude, shields and helmets and swords:
5 Persians, and Ethiopians, and
Libyans; all with helmets and shields.
6 Gomer, and all belonging to him; the
house of Thorgama, from the end of the north, and all belonging to him; and
many nations with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, prepare thyself,
thou, and all thy multitude that is assembled with thee, and thou shalt be to
me for a guard. 8 He shall be prepared
after many days, and he shall come at the end of years, and shall come to a
land that is brought back from the sword, when
the people are gathered from many nations against the
land of Israel, which was entirely desolate: and he is come forth out of the
nations, and they shall all dwell securely.
9 And thou shalt go up as rain, and
shalt arrive as a cloud to cover the land, and there shall be thou, and all
that are about thee, and many nations with thee.
10 Thus saith the Lord God; It shall
also come to pass in that day, that thoughts shall come up into thine heart,
and thou shalt devise evil devices.
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up
to the rejected land; I will come upon them that are at ease in tranquillity,
and dwelling in peace, all inhabiting a land in which there is no wall, nor
bars, nor have they doors; 12 to
seize plunder, and to take their spoil; to turn my hands against the desolate
land that is now inhabited, and against a nation that
is gathered from many nations, that have acquired property, dwelling in the
midst of the land. 13 Sabba, and
Dædan, and Carthaginian merchants, and all their villages shall say to thee,
Thou art come for plunder to take a prey, and to get spoils: thou hast
gathered thy multitude to take silver and gold, to carry off property, to take
spoils.
14 Therefore prophesy, son of man,
and say to Gog, Thus saith the Lord; Wilt thou not arise in that day, when my
people Israel are dwelling securely,
15 and come out of thy place from the
farthest north, and many nations with thee? all of them mounted on horses, a
great gathering, and a large force?
16 And thou shalt come up upon my
people Israel as a cloud to cover the land; it shall come to pass in the last
days, that I will bring thee up upon my land, that all the nations may know
me, when I am sanctified in thee before them.
17 Thus saith the Lord God, to Gog;
Thou art he concerning whom I spoke in former times,
by the hand of my servants the prophets of Israel, in those days and years,
that I would bring thee up against them.
18 And it shall come to pass in that
day, in the day when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord
God, 19 that my wrath and my jealousy shall arise, I have
spoken in the fire of mine anger, verily in that day there shall be a great
shaking in the land of Israel; 20 and
the fish of the sea shall quake at the presence of the Lord, and the birds of
the sky and the wild beasts of the field, and all the reptiles that creep upon
the earth, and all the men that are on the face of the earth; and the
mountains shall be rent, and the valleys shall fall, and every wall on the
land shall fall. 21 And I will summon
against it even every fear, saith the Lord: the sword of
every man shall be against his brother.
22 And I will judge him with
pestilence, and blood, and sweeping rain, and hailstones; and I will rain upon
him fire and brimstone, and upon all that are with him, and upon many nations
with him.
23 And I will be magnified, and
sanctified, and glorified; and I will be known in the presence of many
nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.