Ezekiel 38 Again a word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Again a word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² Son of man, set thy face against Gog, and the land of Magog, the prince of Eos, Mesoch and Thobel and prophesy against him ³ and say to him, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, Behold I am against thee, prince of Kos, Mesoch and Thobel. ⁴ And I will gather thee and all thine army, horses and horsemen all clad with coats of mail; a great assembly with shields and helmets and swords, ⁵ Persians and Ethiopians and Libyans, all armed with helmets and shields; ⁶ Gomer and all those around him, the house of Thogarmar, from the extreme north, with all around him and many nations with thee. ⁷ Be prepared and make thyself ready, thou and thy multitude assembled with thee; for thou shalt be to me for a vanguard. ⁸ After many days he will be in a state of preparation, and in the last of years he will begin his march, and come into the land which is withdrawn from the sword; the land of them who have been collected from many nations, to the land of Israel, which had been made an entire desert. When he from nations hath begun his march, they will be all dwelling in peace. ⁹ Then thou wilt come up like rain, and advance like a cloud to cover the land. When thou shalt be with all thy bands around thee, and many nations with thee; ¹⁰ [Thus saith the Lord, Lord,] In that day things will come into thy heart, and thou wilt form wicked devices ¹¹ and say, "I will go up against an abject land: I shall come upon them who are living at ease, and dwelling in peaceful security; all inhabiting a land in which there is not a walled town, and who have neither bars nor gates; ¹² to take prey and to gather their spoils, by turning my hand against this wasted country which is re-settled, and against a nation gathered together from many nations who have gotten wealth and inhabit the navel of the earth." ¹³ Saba and Daidan and the merchants of Carthage, and all their colonies, will say to thee, Thou art coming for prey, just to collect plunder and spoil: thou hast assembled thy troops to take silver and gold, to carry off cattle, to gather the spoil. ¹⁴ Therefore prophesy Son of man and say to Gog, Thus saith the Lord, At the time when my people Israel shall be dwelling in peace, wilt thou not be roused? ¹⁵ Yes; thou wilt come from thy place, from the extremity of the north: thou and many nations with thee, all mounted on horses, a great assembly, and a mighty army, ¹⁶ will indeed come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land: in the latter days I will bring thee up against my land, that all the nations may know me when I am hallowed by thee in their sight, ¹⁷ Thus saith the Lord, Lord, to Gog, Thou art he of whom I have spoken in former times, by the ministry of my servants the prophets of Israel, that in these days and years I would bring thee up against them. ¹⁸ But it shall come to pass on that day, on the day when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, my wrath shall come up, saith the Lord, Lord, and my zeal. ¹⁹ In the fire of mine indignation, I have spoken, there shall indeed be on that day a great shock in the land of Israel. ²⁰ At the presence of the Lord, the fishes of the sea shall be shaken, and the birds of the air, and the beasts of the field, and all the reptiles which creep on the earth, and all the men on the face of the earth. And the mountains shall be rent to pieces, and the vallies shall sink down, and every wall shall fall to the ground. ²¹ And for all this indeed I will call up terror saith the Lord: every man's sword shall be against his brother. ²² And I will execute judgment on him, with pestilence and blood and with tempests of rain and hailstones; and I will rain down fire and brimstone on him, and on all with him, even on the many nations with him. ²³ And I shall be magnified and hallowed and glorified; and made known in the sight of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.