King James VersionEzekiel38

Ezekiel

1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, say­ing, 2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Ma­gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and proph­esy against him, 3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Be­hold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: 4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, hors­es and horse­men, all of them clothed with all sorts of ar­mour, even a great com­pa­ny with buck­lers and shields, all of them han­dling swords: 5 Per­sia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and hel­met: 6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Tog­a­rmah of the north quar­ters, and all his bands: and many peo­ple with thee. 7 Be thou pre­pared, and pre­pare for thy­self, thou, and all thy com­pa­ny that are as­sem­bled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them. 8 Af­ter many days thou shalt be vis­it­ed: in the lat­ter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gath­ered out of many peo­ple, against the moun­tains of Is­rael, which have been al­ways waste: but it is brought forth out of the na­tions, and they shall dwell safe­ly all of them. 9 Thou shalt as­cend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cov­er the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many peo­ple with thee. 10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: 11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of un­walled vil­lages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safe­ly, all of them dwelling with­out walls, and hav­ing nei­ther bars nor gates, 12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the des­o­late places that are now in­hab­it­ed, and upon the peo­ple that are gath­ered out of the na­tions, which have got­ten cat­tle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land. 13 She­ba, and Dedan, and the mer­chants of Tarshish, with all the young li­ons there­of, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gath­ered thy com­pa­ny to take a prey? to car­ry away sil­ver and gold, to take away cat­tle and goods, to take a great spoil? 14 There­fore, son of man, proph­esy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my peo­ple of Is­rael dwelleth safe­ly, shalt thou not know it? 15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many peo­ple with thee, all of them rid­ing upon hors­es, a great com­pa­ny, and a mighty army: 16 And thou shalt come up against my peo­ple of Is­rael, as a cloud to cov­er the land; it shall be in the lat­ter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the hea­then may know me, when I shall be sanc­ti­fied in thee, O Gog, be­fore their eyes. 17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spo­ken in old time by my ser­vants the prophets of Is­rael, which proph­e­sied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them? 18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Is­rael, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face. 19 For in my jeal­ousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spo­ken, Sure­ly in that day there shall be a great shak­ing in the land of Is­rael; 20 So that the fish­es of the sea, and the fowls of the heav­en, and the beasts of the field, and all creep­ing things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my pres­ence, and the moun­tains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and ev­ery wall shall fall to the ground. 21 And I will call for a sword against him through­out all my moun­tains, saith the Lord GOD: ev­ery man's sword shall be against his broth­er. 22 And I will plead against him with pesti­lence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many peo­ple that are with him, an over­flow­ing rain, and great hail­stones, fire, and brim­stone. 23 Thus will I mag­ni­fy my­self, and sanc­ti­fy my­self; and I will be known in the eyes of many na­tions, and they shall know that I am the LORD.