39:1 “And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal! 39:2 I will turn you around and drag you along,1 summon you from the remotest parts of the north, and bring you against the mountains of Israel. 39:3 I will strike your bow from your left hand, and make your arrows fall from your right hand. 39:4 You will drop dead on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the people who are with you. I will give you as food to every kind of bird and prey to every wild beast. 39:5 You will drop dead in the open field; for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord. 39:6 I will send fire on Magog and those who live securely in the coastlands; and they will know that I am the Lord.
39:7 “‘I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let my holy name be profaned any more; then the nations will know that I am the Lord, the Holy One of Israel. 39:8 It is coming and it will be done, declares the Sovereign Lord. This is the day I have spoken about.
39:9 “‘Then those who live in the cities of Israel will go out and make fires with the weapons and burn them—shields and bucklers, bows and arrows, war clubs and spears—and they will burn them for seven years. 39:10 They will not take wood from the field or cut down trees from the forests, because they will make fires with the weapons.2 They will take the loot of those who looted them and seize the plunder of those who plundered them, declares the Sovereign Lord.
39:11 “‘On that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, the valley of those who pass east of the sea; it will block the way of the travelers. There they will bury Gog and all his horde; they will call it the valley of Hamon-gog. 39:12 For seven months the house of Israel will bury them, in order to cleanse the land. 39:13 All the people of the land will bury them; and it will be a memorial to them on the day I am glorified, declares the Sovereign Lord. 39:14 They will set apart men to pass continually through the land and bury those who were passing through, who remain on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. At they end of seven months they will make their search. 39:15 As those who pass through the land go through it, anyone who sees a human bone will place a sign by it, until those who bury them have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog. 39:16 (Also a city by the name of Hamonah will be there.) Thus they will cleanse the land.’
39:17 “And you, son of man, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Speak to the birds of every kind and to all the wild beasts: ‘Assemble and come, gather from all around to my sacrifice which I am going to offer for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, and you will eat flesh and drink blood. 39:18 You will eat the flesh of mighty warriors3 and drink the blood of the princes of the earth—of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fattened animals of Bashan. 39:19 You will eat fat until you are filled, and drink blood until you are drunk,4 at my sacrifice which I have readied for you. 39:20 You will be filled at my table with horses and charioteers,5 with mighty warriors and all the soldiers,’ declares the Sovereign Lord.
39:21 “I will display my glory among the nations; and all the nations will see my judgments which I have executed, and my hand I have placed on them. 39:22 The house of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God, from that day forward. 39:23 And the nations will know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt treacherously against me. So I hid my face from them and gave them into the power of their adversaries, and all of them died by the sword. 39:24 According to their uncleanness and transgressions I have dealt with them, and I hid my face from them.
39:25 “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Now I will restore6 the fortunes of Jacob, and I will have mercy on the house of Israel. I will be jealous for my holy name. 39:26 They will bear their shame, and all the treachery they practiced against me, when they live securely on their land with no one to make them afraid. 39:27 When I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from the countries of their enemies, I will be sanctified through them in the sight of many nations. 39:28 Then they will know that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations, and then gathered them into their own land. I will not leave any of them there any longer. 39:29 I will not hide my face from them any longer, when I pour out my spirit on the house of Israel,7 declares the Sovereign Lord.”