nd thou, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say: Thus saith
the Lord God: Behold, I come against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of
Mosoch and Thubal.
39:2. And I will turn thee round, and I will lead thee out, and will
make thee go up from the northern parts: and will bring thee upon the
mountains of Israel.
39:3. And I will break thy bow in thy left hand, and I will cause thy
arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
39:4. Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou and all thy
bands, and thy nations that are with thee: I have given thee to the wild
beasts, to the birds, and to every fowl, and to the beasts of the earth
to be devoured.
39:5. Thou shalt fall upon the face of the field: for I have spoken it,
saith the Lord God.
39:6. And I will send a fire on Magog, and on them that dwell
confidently in the islands: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
39:7. And I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people
Israel, and my holy name shall be profaned no more: and the Gentiles
shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
39:8. Behold it cometh, and it is done, saith the Lord God: this is the
day whereof I have spoken.
39:9. And the inhabitants shall go forth of the cities of Israel, and
shall set on fire and burn the weapons, the shields, and the spears, the
bows and the arrows, and the handstaves and the pikes: and they shall
burn them with fire seven years.
39:10. And they shall not bring wood out of the countries, nor cut down
out of the forests: for they shall burn the weapons with fire, and shall
make a prey of them to whom they had been a prey, and they shall rob
those that robbed them, saith the Lord God.
39:11. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give Gog a
noted place for a sepulchre in Israel: the valley of the passengers on
the east of the sea, which shall cause astonishment in them that pass
by: and there shall they bury Gog, and all his multitude, and it shall
be called the valley of the multitude of Gog.
39:12. And the house of Israel shall bury them for seven months to
cleanse the land.
39:13. And all the people of the land shall bury him, and it shall be
unto them a noted day, wherein I was glorified, saith the Lord God.
39:14. And they shall appoint men to go continually about the land, to
bury and to seek out them that were remaining upon the face of the
earth, that they may cleanse it: and after seven months they shall begin
to see
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