Ezekiel 39

New King James Version

Gog’s Armies Destroyed

39 “And ^(A)you, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, ^[a]the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal; ²and I will ^(B)turn you around and lead you on, ^(C)bringing you up from the far north, and bring you against the mountains of Israel. ³Then I will knock the bow out of your left hand, and cause the arrows to fall out of your right hand. ⁴^(D)You shall ^[b]fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; ^(E)I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. ⁵You shall ^[c]fall on ^[d]the open field; for I have spoken,” says the Lord God. ⁶^(F)“And I will send fire on Magog and on those who live ^[e]in security in ^(G)the coastlands. Then they shall know that I am the Lord. ⁷^(H)So I will make My holy name known in the midst of My people Israel, and I will not let them ^(I)profane My holy name anymore. ^(J)Then the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. ⁸^(K)Surely it is coming, and it shall be done,” says the Lord God. “This is the day ^(L)of which I have spoken.

⁹“Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and bucklers, the bows and arrows, the ^[f]javelins and spears; and they will make fires with them for seven years. ¹⁰They will not take wood from the field nor cut down any from the forests, because they will make fires with the weapons; ^(M)and they will plunder those who plundered them, and pillage those who pillaged them,” says the Lord God.

The Burial of Gog

¹¹“It will come to pass in that day that I will give Gog a burial place there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea; and it will obstruct travelers, because there they will bury Gog and all his multitude. Therefore they will call it the Valley of ^[g]Hamon Gog. ¹²For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, ^(N)in order to cleanse the land. ¹³Indeed all the people of the land will be burying, and they will gain ^(O)renown for it on the day that ^(P)I am glorified,” says the Lord God. ¹⁴“They will set apart men regularly employed, with the help of ^[h]a search party, to pass through the land and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, in order ^(Q)to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search. ¹⁵The search party will pass through the land; and when anyone sees a man’s bone, he shall ^[i]set up a marker by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog. ¹⁶The name of the city will also be ^[j]Hamonah. Thus they shall ^(R)cleanse the land.” ’

A Triumphant Festival

¹⁷“And as for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God, ^(S)‘Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field:

^(T)“Assemble yourselves and come;
Gather together from all sides to My ^(U)sacrificial meal
Which I am sacrificing for you,
A great sacrificial meal ^(V)on the mountains of Israel,
That you may eat flesh and drink blood.
¹⁸^(W)You shall eat the flesh of the mighty,
Drink the blood of the princes of the earth,
Of rams and lambs,
Of goats and bulls,
All of them ^(X)fatlings of Bashan.
¹⁹You shall eat fat till you are full,
And drink blood till you are drunk,
At My sacrificial meal
Which I am sacrificing for you.
²⁰^(Y)You shall be filled at My table
With horses and riders,
^(Z)With mighty men
And with all the men of war,” says the Lord God.

Israel Restored to the Land

²¹^(AA)“I will set My glory among the nations; all the nations shall see My judgment which I have executed, and ^(AB)My hand which I have laid on them. ²²^(AC)So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day forward. ²³^(AD)The Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they were unfaithful to Me, therefore ^(AE)I hid My face from them. I ^(AF)gave them into the hand of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword. ²⁴^(AG)According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I have dealt with them, and hidden My face from them.” ’

²⁵“Therefore thus says the Lord God: ^(AH)‘Now I will bring back the captives of Jacob, and have mercy on the ^(AI)whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name— ²⁶^(AJ)after they have borne their shame, and all their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, when they ^(AK)dwelt safely in their own land and no one made them afraid. ²⁷^(AL)When I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and I ^(AM)am hallowed in them in the sight of many nations, ²⁸^(AN)then they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who sent them into captivity among the nations, but also brought them back to their land, and left none of them ^[k]captive any longer. ²⁹^(AO)And I will not hide My face from them anymore; for I shall have ^(AP)poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord God.”