The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Ezekiel 39
1 “You, son of man, prophesy against
Gog, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:
“Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh,
Meshech, and Tubal.
2 I will turn you around, will lead you
on, and will cause you to come up from
the uttermost parts of the north; and I will
bring you onto the mountains of Israel.
3 I will strike your bow out of your left
hand, and will cause your arrows to fall
out of your right hand.
4 You will fall on the mountains of Israel,
you, and all your hordes, and the peoples
who are with you. I will give you to the
ravenous birds of every sort and to the
animals of the field to be devoured.
5 You willfall on the open field, for I have
spoken it,” says the Lord Yahweh.
6 “I will send a fire on Magog and on
those who dwell securely in the islands.
Then they will know that I am Yahweh.
7 I will make my holy name known
among my people Israel. I won’t allow my
holy name to be profaned any more. Then
the nations will know that I am Yahweh,
the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it comes, and it will be done,”
says the Lord Yahweh. “This is the day
about which I have spoken.
9 Those who dwell in the cities of
Israel will go out and will make fires of the
weapons and burn them, both the shields
and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows,
and the war clubs and the spears, and they
will make fires with them for seven years;
10 so that they will take no wood out
of the field, and not cut down any out of
the forests; for they will make fires with
the weapons. They will plunder those
who plundered them, and rob those who
robbed them,” says the Lord Yahweh.
11 It will happen in that day, that I
will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel,
the valley of those who pass through on
the east of the sea; and it will stop those
who pass through. They will bury Gog and
all his multitude there, and they will call it
‘The valley of Hamon Gog’.
12 The house of Israel will be burying
them for seven months, that they may
cleanse the land.
13 Yes, all the people of the land will bury
them; and they will become famous in the
day that I will be glorified,” says the Lord
Yahweh.
14 They will set apart men of continual
employment who will pass through the
land. Those who pass through will go with
those who bury those who remain on the
surface of the land, to cleanse it. After the
end of seven months they will search.
15 Those who search through the land
will pass through; and when anyone sees
a man’s bone, then he will set up a sign by
it, until the undertakers have buried it in
the valley of Hamon Gog.
16 Hamonah will also be the name of a
city. Thus they will cleanse the land.
17 “You, son of man, the Lord Yahweh
says: ‘Speak to the birds of every sort,
and to every animal ofthe field, “Assemble
yourselves, and come; gather yourselves
on every side to my sacrifice thatI sacrifice
for you, evena great sacrifice on the
mountains of Israel, that you may eat meat and
drink blood.
18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty,
and drink the blood of the princes of the
earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of
bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 You shall eat fat until you are full, and
drink blood until you are drunk, of my
sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you
20 You shall be filled at my table with
horses and charioteers, with mighty men,
and with all men of war,” says the Lord
Yahweh.’
21 “I will set my glory among the nations.
Then all the nations will see my judgment
that I have executed, and my hand that I
have laid on them.
22 So the house of Israel will know that I
am Yahweh their God, from that day and
forward.
23 The nations will know that the house
of Israel went into captivity for their
iniquity, because they trespassed against me,
and I hid my face from them; so I gave
them into the hand of their adversaries,
and they all fell by the sword.
24 I did to them according to their
uncleanness and according to their
transgressions. I hid my face from them.
25 “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says:
‘Now I will reverse the captivity of Jacob
and have mercy on the whole house of
Israel. I will be jealous for my holy name.
26 They will forget their shame and all
their trespasses by which they have trespassed
against me, when they dwell securely in their
land. No one will make them afraid
27 when I have brought them back from
the peoples, gathered them out of their
enemies’ lands, and am shown holy among
them in the sight of many nations.
28 They will know thatI am Yahweh their
God, in thatI caused them to go into captivity
among the nations, and have gathered
them to their own land. Then I will leave
none of them captive any more.
29 I won’t hide my face from them any
more, for I have poured out my Spirit on
thehouse ofIsrael,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”