17 “Now as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord God says: ‘Say to every [a]kind of (A)bird and to every (B)animal of the field: “Assemble and come, gather from every direction to My sacrifice, which I am going to (C)sacrifice for you as a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel; and you will eat flesh and drink blood. 18 You will (D)eat the flesh of warriors and drink the blood of the leaders of the earth, as though they were (E)rams, lambs, goats, and (F)bulls, all of them fattened livestock of (G)Bashan. 19 So you will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, from My sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. 20 You will eat your fill at My table with (H)horses and charioteers, with warriors and all the men of war,” declares the Lord God.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 39:17 Lit wing

17 “As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God: Speak to the birds of every sort and to all beasts of the field, ‘Assemble and come, gather from all sides to the sacrificial feast which I am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast upon the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood. 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 fatlings of Bashan. 19 And you shall eat fat till you are filled, and drink blood till you are drunk, at the sacrificial feast which I am preparing for you. 20 And you shall be filled at my table with horses and riders, with mighty men and all kinds of warriors,’ says the Lord God.

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