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:

^4 (A)You shall ^[a]fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; ^(B)I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.

⁸ And I will fill its mountains with the slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those who are slain by the sword shall fall.

¹² By the swords of the mighty warriors, all of them ^(A)the most terrible of the nations, I will cause your multitude to fall.

¹² And aliens, ^(A)the most terrible of the nations, have cut it down and left it; its branches have fallen ^(B)on the mountains and in all the valleys; its boughs lie ^(C)broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the peoples of the earth have gone from under its shadow and left it.