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Chapter 38
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, set your face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Mosoch and Thubal: and prophesy of him,
3 And say to him: Thus said the Lord God: Behold, I come against you, O Gog, the chief prince of Mosoch and Thubal.
4 And I will turn you about, and I will put a bit in your jaws: and I will bring you forth, and ail your army, horses and horsemen all clothed with coats of mail, a great multitude, armed with spears and shields and swords.
5 The Persians, Ethiopians, and Libyans with them, all with shields and helmets.
6 Gomer, and all his bands, the house of Thogorma, the northern parts and all his strength, and many peoples with you.
7 Prepare and make yourself ready, and all your multitude that is assembled about you, and be commander over them.
8 After many days you shall be visited: at the end of years you shall come to the land that is returned from the sword, and is gathered out of many nations, to the mountains of Israel which have been continually waste: but it has been brought forth out of the nations, and they shall all of them dwell securely in
9 And you shall go up and come like a storm, and like a cloud to cover the land, you and all your bands and many people with you.
10 Thus said the Lord God: In that day projects shall enter into your heart, and you shall conceive a mischievous design.
11 And you shall say: I will go up to the land which is without a wall, I will come to them that are at rest, and dwell securely: all these dwell without a wall, they have no bars nor gates:
12 To take spoils, and lay hold on the prey, to lay your hand upon them that had been wasted, and afterwards restored, and upon the people that is gathered together out of the nations, which has begun to possess and to dwell in the midst of the earth.
13 Saba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tharsis, and all the lions thereof shall say to you: are you come to take spoils? behold, you have gathered your multitude to take a prey, to take silver, and gold, and to carry away goods and substance, and to take rich spoils.
14 Therefore, you son of man, prophesy and say to Cog: Thus said the Lord God: shall you not know, in that day, when my people of Israel shall dwell securely?
15 And then shall come out of your place from the northern parts, you and many people with you, all of them riding upon horses, a great company and a mighty army.
16 And you shall come upon my people of Israel like a cloud, to cover the earth. you shall be in the latter days, and I will bring you upon my land: that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in you, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus said the Lord God: you then art he, of whom I have spoken in the days of old, by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in the days of those times that I would bring you upon them.
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, in the day of the coming of Gog upon the land of Israel, said the Lord God, that my indignation shall come up in my wrath.
19 And I have spoken in my zeal, and in the fire of my anger, that in that day there shall be a great commotion upon the land of Israel:
20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the birds of the air, and the beasts of the field, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the ground, and all men that are upon the face of the earth, shall be moved at my presence: and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the hedges shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
21 And I will call in the sword against him in all my mountains, said the Lord God: every man's sword shall be pointed against his brother.
22 And I will judge him with pestilence, and with blood, and with violent rain, and vast hailstones: I will rain fire and brimstone upon him, and upon his army, and upon the many nations that are with him.
23 And I will be magnified, and I will be sanctified: and I will be known in the eyes of many nations: and they shall know that I am the Lord.