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17 As for you, mortal, thus says the Lord God: Speak to the birds of every kind and to all the wild animals: Assemble and come, gather from all around to 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.(A) 18 You 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 bulls, all of them fatted calves of Bashan.(B) 19 You shall eat fat until you are filled and drink blood until 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 chariots, with warriors and all kinds of soldiers, says the Lord God.(C)

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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”