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13 Sheba and Dedan and traders of Tarshish and all its strong lions,[a] they will ask you, ‘To[b] loot loot[c] are you coming? To plunder[d] plunder have you summoned your assembly, to take away silver and gold, to take livestock and goods, to loot great amounts[e] of loot?”’

14 “Therefore prophesy, son of man,[f] and you must say to Gog, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Will you not realize[g] on that day when my people Israel are dwelling in safety,[h] 15 and so you will come from your place, from the remote areas of the north, you and many people with you, horsemen[i] all of them, a great crowd and a vast army,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 38:13 Or “all of its violent leaders”
  2. Ezekiel 38:13 Or “for”
  3. Ezekiel 38:13 Or “war-booty” this word is chosen because of the alliteration in Hebrew
  4. Ezekiel 38:13 Or “seize”; this word is chosen because of the alliteration in Hebrew
  5. Ezekiel 38:13 Hebrew “amount”
  6. Ezekiel 38:14 Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
  7. Ezekiel 38:14 LXX reads, “stir up/rouse yourself”
  8. Ezekiel 38:14 Literally “with confidence/trust”
  9. Ezekiel 38:15 Literally “riders of horsemen”