Prophecy Against Gog

38 The word of the Lord came to me: ^2 (A)“Son of man, ^(B)set your face toward ^(C)Gog, of the land of ^(D)Magog, the ^(E)chief prince of ^(F)Meshech^[a] and ^(G)Tubal, and ^(H)prophesy against him ³ and say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, ^(I)I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech^[b] and Tubal. ^4 (J)And I will turn you about and ^(K)put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and ^(L)all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great host, all of them with buckler and shield, wielding swords. ^5 (M)Persia, ^(N)Cush, and ^(O)Put are with them, all of them with shield and helmet; ^6 (P)Gomer and all his ^(Q)hordes; ^(R)Beth-togarmah from ^(S)the uttermost parts of the north with all his hordes—^(T)many peoples are with you.

^7 (U)“Be ready and keep ready, you and all your hosts that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them. ^8 (V)After many days you will be mustered. ^(W)In the latter years you will go against ^(X)the land that is restored from war, the land whose people ^(Y)were gathered from many peoples upon ^(Z)the mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste. Its people were brought out from the peoples and ^(AA)now dwell securely, all of them. ⁹ You will advance, coming on ^(AB)like a storm. You will be ^(AC)like a cloud covering the land, you and all your ^(AD)hordes, and many peoples with you.

¹⁰ “Thus says the Lord God: On that day, ^(AE)thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme ¹¹ and say, ‘I will go up against ^(AF)the land of unwalled villages. I will fall upon ^(AG)the quiet people who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having no bars or gates,’ ¹² to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against ^(AH)the waste places that are now inhabited, and ^(AI)the people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, ^(AJ)who dwell at the center of the earth. ^13 (AK)Sheba and ^(AL)Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all ^(AM)its leaders^[c] will say to you, ‘Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hosts to carry off plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to seize great spoil?’

¹⁴ “Therefore, ^(AN)son of man, prophesy, and say to ^(AO)Gog, Thus says the Lord God: On that day when my people Israel are ^(AP)dwelling securely, ^(AQ)will you not know it? ¹⁵ You will come from your place out of ^(AR)the uttermost parts of the north, you and ^(AS)many peoples with you, ^(AT)all of them riding on horses, a great host, a mighty army. ¹⁶ You will come up against my people Israel, ^(AU)like a cloud covering the land. ^(AV)In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, ^(AW)I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.

¹⁷ “Thus says the Lord God: Are you ^(AX)he of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who in those days prophesied for years that I would bring you against them? ¹⁸ But on that day, the day that Gog shall come against the land of Israel, declares the Lord God, ^(AY)my wrath will be roused in my anger. ¹⁹ For ^(AZ)in my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare, On that day ^(BA)there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. ^20 (BB)The fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep on the ground, and all the people who are on the face of the earth, ^(BC)shall quake at my presence. And ^(BD)the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground. ^21 (BE)I will summon a sword against Gog^[d] on all my mountains, declares the Lord God. ^(BF)Every man's sword will be against his brother. ²² With pestilence and bloodshed ^(BG)I will enter into judgment with him, and ^(BH)I will rain upon him and ^(BI)his hordes and the many peoples who are with him ^(BJ)torrential rains and hailstones, ^(BK)fire and sulfur. ²³ So I will show my greatness and my ^(BL)holiness and ^(BM)make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then ^(BN)they will know that I am the Lord.

39 “And you, ^(BO)son of man, ^(BP)prophesy against ^(BQ)Gog and say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, ^(BR)I am against you, O Gog, ^(BS)chief prince of ^(BT)Meshech^[e] and ^(BU)Tubal. ^2 (BV)And I will turn you about and drive you forward,^[f] and bring you up from ^(BW)the uttermost parts of the north, and lead you against the ^(BX)mountains of Israel. ³ Then ^(BY)I will strike your bow from your left hand, and ^(BZ)will make your arrows drop out of your right hand. ^4 (CA)You shall fall on ^(CB)the mountains of Israel, you and all your ^(CC)hordes and the peoples who are with you. ^(CD)I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. ⁵ You shall fall in the open field, for ^(CE)I have spoken, declares the Lord God. ^6 (CF)I will send fire on ^(CG)Magog and on those ^(CH)who dwell securely in ^(CI)the coastlands, and ^(CJ)they shall know that I am the Lord.

⁷ “And ^(CK)my holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and ^(CL)I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. And ^(CM)the nations shall know that I am ^(CN)the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. ^8 (CO)Behold, it is coming and it will be brought about, declares the Lord God. That is the day ^(CP)of which I have spoken.

⁹ “Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and ^(CQ)make fires of the weapons and burn them, shields and bucklers, bow and arrows, ^(CR)clubs^[g] and spears; and they will make fires of them for seven years, ¹⁰ so that they will not need to take wood out of the field or cut down any out of the forests, for ^(CS)they will make their fires of the weapons. ^(CT)They will seize the spoil of those who despoiled them, and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord God.

¹¹ “On that day I will give to ^(CU)Gog a place for burial in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers, east of the sea. It will block the travelers, for there Gog and all his multitude will be buried. It will be called the Valley of ^(CV)Hamon-gog.^{[h] 12} For ^(CW)seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order ^(CX)to cleanse the land. ¹³ All the people of the land will bury them, and it will bring them renown on the day that ^(CY)I show my glory, declares the Lord God. ¹⁴ They will set apart men to travel through the land regularly and bury those travelers remaining on the face of the land, so as ^(CZ)to cleanse it. At^[i] the end of ^(DA)seven months they will make their search. ¹⁵ And when these travel through the land and anyone sees a human bone, then he shall set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of ^(DB)Hamon-gog. ¹⁶ (Hamonah^[j] is also the name of the city.) Thus shall they cleanse the land.

¹⁷ “As for you, ^(DC)son of man, thus says the Lord God: ^(DD)Speak to ^(DE)the birds of every sort and to ^(DF)all beasts of the field: ‘Assemble and come, gather from all around to ^(DG)the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood. ^18 (DH)You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth—of rams, of lambs, and of he-goats, of bulls, all of them ^(DI)fat beasts of Bashan. ¹⁹ And you shall eat fat till you are filled, and drink blood till you are drunk, at the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you. ²⁰ And you shall be filled at my table with horses and charioteers, with mighty men and all kinds of warriors,’ declares the Lord God.

²¹ “And ^(DJ)I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see ^(DK)my judgment that I have executed, and ^(DL)my hand that I have laid on them. ^22 (DM)The house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God, from that day forward. ²³ And ^(DN)the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that ^(DO)I hid my face from them and ^(DP)gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword. ²⁴ I dealt with them ^(DQ)according to their uncleanness and their transgressions, and hid my face from them.

The Lord Will Restore Israel

²⁵ “Therefore thus says the Lord God: Now ^(DR)I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on ^(DS)the whole house of Israel, and ^(DT)I will be jealous for my holy name. ²⁶ They shall ^(DU)forget their shame and all the treachery they have practiced against me, when ^(DV)they dwell securely in their land with ^(DW)none to make them afraid, ^27 (DX)when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies' lands, ^(DY)and through them have vindicated my holiness in the sight of many nations. ^28 (DZ)Then they shall know that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore. ^29 (EA)And I will not hide my face anymore from them, when ^(EB)I pour out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord God.”

To the Church in Ephesus

2 “To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of ^(A)him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, ^(B)who walks among the seven golden lampstands.

^2 (C)“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but ^(D)have tested those ^(E)who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. ³ I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up ^(F)for my name's sake, and you ^(G)have not grown weary. ⁴ But I have this against you, that you have abandoned ^(H)the love you had at first. ⁵ Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do ^(I)the works you did at first. If not, ^(J)I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. ⁶ Yet this you have: you hate the works of ^(K)the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. ^7 (L)He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. ^(M)To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of ^(N)the tree of life, which is in ^(O)the paradise of God.’

To the Church in Smyrna

⁸ “And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘The words of ^(P)the first and the last, ^(Q)who died and came to life.

⁹ “‘I know your tribulation and ^(R)your poverty (^(S)but you are rich) and the slander^[a] of ^(T)those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. ¹⁰ Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, ^(U)that you may be tested, and for ^(V)ten days ^(W)you will have tribulation. ^(X)Be faithful ^(Y)unto death, and I will give you ^(Z)the crown of life. ^11 (AA)He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. ^(AB)The one who conquers will not be hurt by ^(AC)the second death.’

To the Church in Pergamum

¹² “And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: ‘The words of him who has ^(AD)the sharp two-edged sword.

¹³ “‘I know where you dwell, ^(AE)where Satan's throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not ^(AF)deny my faith^[b] even in the days of Antipas ^(AG)my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. ¹⁴ But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of ^(AH)Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might ^(AI)eat food sacrificed to idols and ^(AJ)practice sexual immorality. ¹⁵ So also you have some who hold the teaching of ^(AK)the Nicolaitans. ¹⁶ Therefore repent. If not, ^(AL)I will come to you soon and ^(AM)war against them with ^(AN)the sword of my mouth. ^17 (AO)He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. ^(AP)To the one who conquers I will give some of ^(AQ)the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with ^(AR)a new name written on the stone ^(AS)that no one knows except the one who receives it.’

To the Church in Thyatira

¹⁸ “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, ^(AT)who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.

^19 (AU)“‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. ²⁰ But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman ^(AV)Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants ^(AW)to practice sexual immorality and ^(AX)to eat food sacrificed to idols. ²¹ I gave her time to repent, but ^(AY)she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. ²² Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works, ²³ and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he ^(AZ)who searches mind and heart, and ^(BA)I will give to each of you according to your works. ²⁴ But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call ^(BB)the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I ^(BC)do not lay on you any other burden. ²⁵ Only hold fast ^(BD)what you have until I come. ^26 (BE)The one who conquers and who keeps my works ^(BF)until the end, ^(BG)to him I will give authority over the nations, ²⁷ and ^(BH)he will ^(BI)rule^[c] them with a rod of iron, ^(BJ)as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father. ²⁸ And I will give him ^(BK)the morning star. ^29 (BL)He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’