Ezekiel 39

English Standard Version

39 “And you, ^(A)son of man, ^(B)prophesy against ^(C)Gog and say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, ^(D)I am against you, O Gog, ^(E)chief prince of ^(F)Meshech^[a] and ^(G)Tubal. ²^(H)And I will turn you about and drive you forward,^[b] and bring you up from ^(I)the uttermost parts of the north, and lead you against the ^(J)mountains of Israel. ³Then ^(K)I will strike your bow from your left hand, and ^(L)will make your arrows drop out of your right hand. ⁴^(M)You shall fall on ^(N)the mountains of Israel, you and all your ^(O)hordes and the peoples who are with you. ^(P)I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. ⁵You shall fall in the open field, for ^(Q)I have spoken, declares the Lord God. ⁶^(R)I will send fire on ^(S)Magog and on those ^(T)who dwell securely in ^(U)the coastlands, and ^(V)they shall know that I am the Lord.

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

⁹“Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and ^(AC)make fires of the weapons and burn them, shields and bucklers, bow and arrows, ^(AD)clubs^[c] and spears; and they will make fires of them for seven years, ¹⁰so that they will not need to take wood out of the field or cut down any out of the forests, for ^(AE)they will make their fires of the weapons. ^(AF)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 ^(AG)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 ^(AH)Hamon-gog.^[d] ¹²For ^(AI)seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order ^(AJ)to cleanse the land. ¹³All the people of the land will bury them, and it will bring them renown on the day that ^(AK)I show my glory, declares the Lord God. ¹⁴They will set apart men to travel through the land regularly and bury those travelers remaining on the face of the land, so as ^(AL)to cleanse it. At^[e] the end of ^(AM)seven months they will make their search. ¹⁵And 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 ^(AN)Hamon-gog. ¹⁶(Hamonah^[f] is also the name of the city.) Thus shall they cleanse the land.

¹⁷“As for you, ^(AO)son of man, thus says the Lord God: ^(AP)Speak to ^(AQ)the birds of every sort and to ^(AR)all beasts of the field: ‘Assemble and come, gather from all around to ^(AS)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^(AT)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 ^(AU)fat beasts of Bashan. ¹⁹And 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. ²⁰And 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 ^(AV)I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see ^(AW)my judgment that I have executed, and ^(AX)my hand that I have laid on them. ²²^(AY)The house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God, from that day forward. ²³And ^(AZ)the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that ^(BA)I hid my face from them and ^(BB)gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword. ²⁴I dealt with them ^(BC)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 ^(BD)I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on ^(BE)the whole house of Israel, and ^(BF)I will be jealous for my holy name. ²⁶They shall ^(BG)forget their shame and all the treachery they have practiced against me, when ^(BH)they dwell securely in their land with ^(BI)none to make them afraid, ²⁷^(BJ)when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies' lands, ^(BK)and through them have vindicated my holiness in the sight of many nations. ²⁸^(BL)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^(BM)And I will not hide my face anymore from them, when ^(BN)I pour out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord God.”

Footnotes

Ezekiel 39:1 Or Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech
Ezekiel 39:2 Or and drag you along
Ezekiel 39:9 Or javelins
Ezekiel 39:11 Hamon-gog means the multitude of Gog
Ezekiel 39:14 Or Until
Ezekiel 39:16 Hamonah means multitude

Psalm 90

English Standard Version

Book Four

From Everlasting to Everlasting

A ^(A)Prayer of Moses, the ^(B)man of God.

90 Lord, you have been our ^(C)dwelling place^[a]
    in all generations.
²^(D)Before the ^(E)mountains were brought forth,
    or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
    ^(F)from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

³You return man to dust
    and say, ^(G)“Return, ^(H)O children of man!”^[b]
⁴For ^(I)a thousand years in your sight
    are but as ^(J)yesterday when it is past,
    or as ^(K)a watch in the night.

⁵You ^(L)sweep them away as with a flood; they are like ^(M)a dream,
like ^(N)grass that is renewed in the morning:
⁶in ^(O)the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
in the evening it ^(P)fades and ^(Q)withers.

⁷For we are brought to an end by your anger;
by your wrath we are dismayed.
⁸You have ^(R)set our iniquities before you,
our ^(S)secret sins in the light of your presence.

⁹For all our days pass away under your wrath;
    we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
¹⁰The years of our life are seventy,
    or even by reason of strength eighty;
yet their span^[c] is but toil and trouble;
    they are soon gone, and we fly away.
¹¹Who considers the power of your anger,
    and your wrath according to the fear of you?

¹²^(T)So teach us to number our days
    that we may get a heart of wisdom.
¹³^(U)Return, O Lord! ^(V)How long?
    Have ^(W)pity on your servants!
¹⁴Satisfy us in the ^(X)morning with your steadfast love,
    that we may ^(Y)rejoice and be glad all our days.
¹⁵Make us glad for as many days as you have ^(Z)afflicted us,
    and for as many years as we have seen evil.
¹⁶Let your ^(AA)work be shown to your servants,
    and your glorious power to their children.
¹⁷Let the ^(AB)favor^[d] of the Lord our God be upon us,
    and establish ^(AC)the work of our hands upon us;
    yes, establish the work of our hands!