39 “Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, ‘Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.

² And I will turn thee back and leave but a sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel;

³ and I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.

⁴ Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou and all thy forces and the people that are with thee. I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.

⁵ Thou shalt fall upon the open field, for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

⁶ And I will send a fire on Magog and among them that dwell confidently in the isles; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

⁷ “‘So will I make My holy name known in the midst of My people Israel, and I will not let them pollute My holy name any more; and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.

⁸ Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord God. This is the day whereof I have spoken.

⁹ “‘And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the javelins and the spears; and they shall burn them with fire seven years,

¹⁰ so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests. For they shall burn the weapons with fire, and they shall despoil those that despoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord God.

¹¹ “‘And it shall come to pass on that day that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passersby on the east of the sea; and it shall stop the noses of the passersby. And there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it the Valley of Hamongog [that is, The multitude of Gog].

¹² And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land.

¹³ Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a day of renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord God.

¹⁴ And they shall separate out men for continual employment, passing through the land, to bury with the passersby those who remain upon the face of the earth to cleanse it. At the end of seven months shall they search.

¹⁵ And the passersby who pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamongog.

¹⁶ And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah [that is, The multitude]. Thus shall they cleanse the land.’

¹⁷ “And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God: Speak unto every feathered fowl and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble yourselves and come. Gather yourselves on every side to My sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh and drink blood.

¹⁸ Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

¹⁹ And ye shall eat fat till ye be full and drink blood till ye be drunken of My sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

²⁰ Thus ye shall be filled at My table with horses and chariots, with mighty men and with all men of war,’ saith the Lord God.

²¹ “And I will set My glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see My judgment that I have executed and My hand that I have laid upon them.

²² So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day and forward.

²³ And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity. Because they trespassed against Me, therefore hid I My face from them and gave them into the hand of their enemies; so fell they all by the sword.

²⁴ According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid My face from them.

²⁵ “Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Now will I bring back the captives of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for My holy name

²⁶ after they have borne their shame and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against Me, when they dwelt safely in their land and none made them afraid.

²⁷ When I have brought them back from the people and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations,

²⁸ then shall they know that I am the Lord their God, who caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen. But I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there;

²⁹ neither will I hide My face any more from them, for I have poured out My Spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God.”

1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, Unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

² We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,

³ remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father,

⁴ knowing, brethren beloved, of your election by God.

⁵ For our Gospel came unto you not in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Ghost and in much assurance, as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.

⁶ And ye became followers of us and of the Lord, having received the Word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Ghost,

⁷ so that ye were examples to all who believe in Macedonia and Achaia.

⁸ For from you sounded forth the Word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to Godward is spread abroad, so that we need not speak anything.

⁹ For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

¹⁰ and to wait for His Son from Heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus, who delivered us from the wrath to come.

2 For you yourselves, brethren, know that our coming among you was not in vain.

² But even after we had suffered before and were shamefully treated at Philippi, as ye know, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the Gospel of God amidst much contention.

³ For our exhortation was not from deceit, nor from uncleanness, nor from guile;

⁴ but as we were allowed by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, even so we speak not as pleasing men, but God, who trieth our hearts.

⁵ For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is our witness),

⁶ nor sought we glory from men, neither from you nor yet from others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

⁷ But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children.

⁸ So being affectionately desirous for you, we were willing to have imparted unto you not the Gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

⁹ For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail; for laboring night and day, because we would not be a burden unto any of you, we preached unto you the Gospel of God.

¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and blamelessly we behaved ourselves among you that believe.

¹¹ Ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

¹² that ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto His Kingdom and glory.

¹⁴ For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God in Judea which are in Christ Jesus; for ye also have suffered like things from your own countrymen, even as they have from the Jews,

¹⁵ who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us. They please not God and are contrary to all men,

¹⁶ forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles, that they might be saved, thus heaping up their sins always. But the wrath has come upon them to the uttermost!

¹⁷ But we, brethren, being taken away from you for a short time (in presence, but not in heart), endeavored the more abundantly and with great desire to see your face.

¹⁸ Therefore we would have come unto you — even I, Paul, time and again — but Satan hindered us.

¹⁹ For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming?

²⁰ For ye are our glory and joy.