²⁰ I will ^(A)give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their ^(B)dead bodies shall be for meat for the birds of the heaven and the beasts of the earth.

² They shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served and after which they have walked, which they have sought and ^(A)which they have worshiped. They shall not be gathered ^(B)nor buried; they shall be like refuse on the face of the earth.

³³ The ^(A)corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth. And no one will frighten them away.

^33 (A)And at that day the slain of the Lord shall be from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They shall not be ^(B)lamented, ^(C)or gathered, or buried; they shall become refuse on the ground.

The Beast and His Armies Defeated

¹⁷ Then I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of heaven, ^(A)“Come and gather together for the ^[a]supper of the great God, ^18 (B)that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all people, ^[b]free and slave, both small and great.”

The Burial of Gog

¹¹ “It will come to pass in that day that I will give Gog a burial place there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea; and it will obstruct travelers, because there they will bury Gog and all his multitude. Therefore they will call it the Valley of ^[a]Hamon Gog. ¹² For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, ^(A)in order to cleanse the land. ¹³ Indeed all the people of the land will be burying, and they will gain ^(B)renown for it on the day that ^(C)I am glorified,” says the Lord God. ¹⁴ “They will set apart men regularly employed, with the help of ^[b]a search party, to pass through the land and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, in order ^(D)to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search. ¹⁵ The search party will pass through the land; and when anyone sees a man’s bone, he shall ^[c]set up a marker by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog. ¹⁶ The name of the city will also be ^[d]Hamonah. Thus they shall ^(E)cleanse the land.” ’

A Triumphant Festival

¹⁷ “And as for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God, ^(F)‘Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field: