17 “Son of man, this is what the Lord God says: Tell every kind of bird and all the wild animals, ‘Assemble and come! Gather from all around to my sacrificial feast that I am slaughtering for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel;(A) you will eat flesh and drink blood. 18 You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the earth’s princes: rams, lambs, male goats, and all the fattened bulls of Bashan. 19 You will eat fat until you are satisfied(B) and drink blood until you are drunk, at my sacrificial feast that I have prepared for you. 20 At my table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, of mighty men and all the warriors. This is the declaration of the Lord God.’

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17 “And you, son of man,[a] thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Say to all kinds of birds and animals of the field,[b] “Be gathered, come be gathered from everywhere[c] to my sacrifice that I am sacrificing for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, and you will eat flesh, and you will drink blood. 18 Flesh of warriors you will eat, and the blood of leaders of the land you will drink; rams, young rams and goats, bulls, and the fattened animals of Bashan—all of them! 19 And you will eat fat until you are satiated,[d] and you will drink blood until you are drunk[e] from my sacrifice that I sacrifice for you, 20 and you will be satisfied at my table with horse and horsemen and warriors and every man of war,”’ declares[f] the Lord Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 39:17 Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
  2. Ezekiel 39:17 Literally “to bird of every wind and to every animal of the field”
  3. Ezekiel 39:17 Literally “all around”
  4. Ezekiel 39:19 Literally “satiation/gluttony”
  5. Ezekiel 39:19 Literally “to drunkenness”
  6. Ezekiel 39:20 Literally “declaration of”