The Slaughter of Gog’s Armies

1“ And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, thus says the Lord YHWH: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.† 2And I will turn you around, and will lead you on, and I will bring you up from the extremities of the north, and I will bring you against the mountains of Israel. 3And I will strike the bow from your left hand, and the arrows from your right hand I will make fall.

4You will fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the nations who are with you, to be the prey of birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field I will give you as food. 5You will fall upon the face of the field, for I have spoken, a declaration of the Lord YHWH.

6And I will send fire on Magog, and on those dwelling in the islands in security, and they will know that I am YHWH. 7And My holy name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel, and I will not let the name of My holiness be profaned anymore; and the nations will know that I am YHWH, the Holy One in Israel. 8Behold, it is coming, and it will come to pass, a declaration of the Lord YHWH; it is the day of which I have spoken!

9And those dwelling in the cities of Israel will go out, and they will set on fire and will burn the weapons—the shields and bucklers, the bows and arrows, and the javelins and spears—and they will burn them with fire seven years; 10and they will not carry wood from the field, and they will not cut down from the forests, because they will burn the weapons with fire. And they will plunder those who plundered them, and they will pillage those who pillaged them, a declaration of the Lord YHWH.

11And it will come to pass on that day, that I will give for Gog a place there for burial in Israel, the valley of those passing by east of the sea;† and it will block those passing by, and for they will bury there Gog and all his multitude. And they will call it the Valley of Hamon-gog.† 12And the house of Israel will be burying them, in order to cleanse the land, seven months. 13All the people of the land will be burying, and they will be unto them for renown on the day of My being glorified,† a declaration of the Lord YHWH.

14And they will set apart men to continually pass through the land, burying the passers-by remaining on the face of the ground, to cleanse it; at the end of seven months they will make a search. 15And those passing by will pass through the land, and having seen a bone of a man, he will construct beside it a sign, until those burying have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog. 16(Also the name of the city is Hamonah.)† And they will cleanse the land.

17And you, son of man, thus says the Lord YHWH: Say to the bird of every wing, and to every beast of the field, ‘Gather yourselves, and come; gather together from all around to My sacrifice that I am sacrificing for you⁺, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you⁺ may eat flesh and drink blood! 18The flesh of the mighty ones you⁺ will eat, and the blood of the princes of the earth you⁺ will drink—rams, lambs, and goats, and bulls, fatlings of Bashan—all of them! 19And you⁺ will eat fat to fullness, and you⁺ will drink blood to drunkenness, at My sacrifice that I am sacrificing for you⁺. 20And you⁺ will be filled at My table with horses and riders, with mighty ones, and with all the men of war,’ a declaration of the Lord YHWH.

Israel to Be Restored

21And I will give forth My glory among the nations, and all the nations will see My judgment that I have made, and My hand that I have set upon them. 22And the house of Israel will know that I am YHWH their God, from that day and forward. 23And the nations will know that for their iniquity the house of Israel went into captivity, upon that they were unfaithful to Me; and I hid My face from them, and I gave them into the hand of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword. 24According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I have dealt with them, and I have hidden My face from them.

25Therefore, thus says the Lord YHWH: Now I will turn back the captivity of Jacob,† and I will have compassion on all the house of Israel, and I will be jealous for My holy name. 26And they will forget† their shame, and all their unfaithfulness by which they were unfaithful with Me in their dwelling upon their own land in safety, and there will not be one to frighten them. 27In My returning them from the peoples, I have gathered them from the lands of their enemies, and I will show My holiness in them before the eyes of the many nations. 28And they will know that I am YHWH their God, in My sending them into captivity among the nations. And I will gather them upon their land, and no longer will I leave them to remain there. 29And I will not hide My face anymore from them, when I pour out My Spirit on the house of Israel, a declaration of the Lord YHWH.”