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"Son of man, set your facetoward1Gog of the land of 2Magog, the prince of 3Rosh, 4Meshech and 5Tubal, and prophesyagainst him
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and say, 'Thussays the LordGOD, "Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal.
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"I will turn you about and puthooks into your jaws, and I will 6bring you out, and all your army, 7horses and horsemen, all of them splendidlyattired, a greatcompany with buckler and shield, all of them wieldingswords;
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8Persia, 9Ethiopia and 10Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;
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11Gomer with all its troops; 12Beth-togarmah* from the remoteparts of the north with all its troops-manypeoples with you.
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"13Be prepared, and prepare yourself, you and all your companies that are assembledabout you, and be a guard for them.
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"14Aftermanydays you will be summoned; in the latteryears you will come into the land that is restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been 15gathered from manynations to the 16mountains of Israelwhich had been a continualwaste; but its people were brought out from the nations, and they are 17livingsecurely, all of them.
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"You will go up, you will come18like a storm; you will be like a 19cloudcovering the land, you and all your troops, and manypeoples with you."
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'Thussays the LordGOD, "It will come about on that day, that thoughts will come into your mind and you will 20devise an evilplan,
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and you will say, 'I will go up against the land of 21unwalledvillages. I will go against those who are 22at rest, that livesecurely, all of them livingwithoutwalls and havingnobars or gates,
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to 23capturespoil and to seizeplunder, to turn your handagainst the wasteplaces which are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered from the nations, who have acquiredcattle and goods, who live at the center of the world.'
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"24Sheba and 25Dedan and the merchants of 26Tarshish with all its villages will say to you, 'Have you come to capturespoil? Have you assembled your company to seizeplunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to capturegreat27spoil?' "'
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"Thereforeprophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, 'Thussays the LordGOD, "On that day when My peopleIsrael are 28livingsecurely, will you not know it?
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"29You will come from your place out of the remoteparts of the north, you and manypeoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a greatassembly and a mightyarmy;
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and you will come up against My peopleIsrael like a cloud to cover the land. It shall come about in the lastdays that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may 30know Me when I am 31sanctified through you before their eyes, O Gog."
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'Thussays the LordGOD, "Are you the one of whom I spoke in formerdaysthrough My servants the prophets of Israel, who 32prophesied in thosedays for many years that I would bring you against them?
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"It will come about on that day, whenGogcomesagainst the land of Israel," declares the LordGOD, "that My fury will mount up in My 33anger.
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"In My 34zeal and in My blazingwrath I declare that on that day there will surely* be a great35earthquake in the land of Israel.
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"36The fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all the creepingthings that creep on the earth, and all the menwho are on the face of the earth will shake at My presence; the 37mountains also will be throwndown, the steeppathways will collapse and everywall will fall to the ground.
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"I will call for a 38swordagainst him on all My mountains," declares the LordGOD. "39Everyman'ssword will be against his brother.
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"With pestilence and with blood I will enter into 40judgment with him; and I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the manypeopleswho are with him, a torrentialrain, with 41hailstones*, fire and brimstone.
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"I will magnify Myself, sanctify Myself, and 42make Myself known in the sight of manynations; and they will know that I am the LORD."'