Ezekiel 38

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1 And it was to me the word of the Lord:
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 will - to thee, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal!
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring you and all your army, horses and horsemen, all in full armor, a great company in the armor and shields, all of them handling swords
5 Persia, Ethiopia and Libya with them, all with shields and helmets,
6 Gomer, and all his bands, the house of Togarmah of the north, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
7 Prepare and 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, 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 Ascend and come like a storm, you go, like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
10 Thus says the Lord God: In that day shall come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil
eleven and say, `I will go up to the land of unwalled villages, I go to rest, that dwell carelessly in --All them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, -
12 to take a spoil, and to take a prey, to lay hands on the newly inhabited, and the people gathered from the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the land the top '.
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, gathered thy multitude to take a prey? To carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take great spoil? '

14 Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord God: is not it? that day when my people Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15 and thou shalt come from thy place out of the north, you and many peoples with thee, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army.
16 Will come up against My people Israel like 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 in thee, O Gog, I will show my holiness before their eyes.
17 Thus says the Lord GOD: Are you he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel who prophesied in those days that I would bring thee against them?
18 On that day when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord God, my wrath shall come up into my nostrils.
19 For in my jealousy, 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 And tremble from the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the people that are on the face of the earth and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
21 And through all the mountains in my call for a sword against him, says the Lord GOD; every man's sword will 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 and I will show my greatness and my holiness, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.

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