Ezekiel 38

¹The word of the Lord came to me:

²Son of man , set your face toward Gog , of the land of Magog , the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal , and prophesy against him

³and say , Thus says the Lord God: Behold , I am against you, O Gog , chief prince of Meshech and Tubal .

⁴And I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws , and I will bring you out , and all your army , horses and horsemen , all of them clothed in full armor , a great host , all of them with buckler and shield , wielding swords .

⁵Persia , Cush , and Put are with them, all of them with shield and helmet ;

⁶Gomer and all his hordes ; Beth-togarmah from the uttermost parts of the north with all his hordes — many peoples are with you.

⁷Be ready and keep ready , you and all your hosts that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them.

⁸After many days you will be mustered . In the latter years you will go against the land that is restored from war , the land whose people were gathered from many peoples upon the mountains of Israel , which had been a continual waste . Its people were brought out from the peoples and now dwell securely , all of them.

⁹You will advance , coming on like a storm . You will be like a cloud covering the land , you and all your hordes , and many peoples with you.

¹⁰Thus says the Lord God: On that day , thoughts will come into your mind , and you will devise an evil scheme

¹¹and say , I will go up against the land of unwalled villages . I will fall upon the quiet people who dwell securely , all of them dwelling without walls , and having no bars or gates ,

¹²to seize spoil and carry off plunder , to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited , and the people who were gathered from the nations , who have acquired livestock and goods , who dwell at the center of the earth .

¹³Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its leaders will say to you, Have you come to seize spoil ? Have you assembled your hosts to carry off plunder , to carry away silver and gold , to take away livestock and goods , to seize great spoil ?

¹⁴Therefore , son of man , prophesy , and say to Gog , Thus says the Lord God: On that day when my people Israel are dwelling securely , will you not know it?

¹⁵You will come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north , you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses , a great host , a mighty army .

¹⁶You will come up against my people Israel , like a cloud covering the land . In the latter days I will bring you against my land , that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog , I vindicate my holiness before their eyes .

¹⁷Thus says the Lord God: Are you he of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel , who in those days prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?

¹⁸But on that day , the day that Gog shall come against the land of Israel , declares the Lord God, my wrath will be roused in my anger .

¹⁹For in my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare , On that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel .

²⁰The fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep on the ground , and all the people who are on the face of the earth , shall quake at my presence . And the mountains shall be thrown down , and the cliffs shall fall , and every wall shall tumble to the ground .

²¹I will summon a sword against Gog on all my mountains , declares the Lord God. Every man’s sword will be against his brother .

²²With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones , fire and sulfur .

²³So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations . Then they will know that I am the Lord.