After a long time you will be summoned. In the last years you will enter a land that has been restored from war[a] and regathered from many peoples to the mountains of Israel, which had long been a ruin.(A) They were brought out from the peoples, and all of them now live securely.

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  1. Ezekiel 38:8 Lit from the sword

11 You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of open villages; I will come against a tranquil people who are living securely,(A) all of them living without walls and without bars or gates(B) 12 in order to seize spoil and carry off plunder,(C) to turn your hand against ruins now inhabited and against a people gathered from the nations, who have been acquiring cattle and possessions and who live at the center of the world.’ 13 Sheba(D) and Dedan(E) and the merchants of Tarshish(F) with all its rulers[a] will ask you, ‘Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hordes to carry off plunder, to make off with silver and gold, to take cattle and possessions, to seize great spoil?’

14 “Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog: This is what the Lord God says: On that day when My people Israel are dwelling securely,(G) will you not know this

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  1. Ezekiel 38:13 Lit young lions, or villages

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