Ezekiel 39:12-22

12 It will take the Israelites seven months to bury all the corpses and make the land clean again.
13 Everyone in the land will help bury them, and they will be honored for this on the day of my victory. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken.
14 After the seven months are over, men will be chosen to travel through the land in order to find and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, so that they can make the land clean.
15 As they go up and down the country, every time they find a human bone, they will put a marker beside it so that the gravediggers can come and bury it in the Valley of Gog's Army.
16 (There will be a town nearby named after the army.) And so the land will be made clean again."
17 The Sovereign Lord said to me, "Mortal man, call all the birds and animals to come from all around to eat the sacrifice I am preparing for them. It will be a huge feast on the mountains of Israel, where they can eat meat and drink blood. 1
18 They are to eat the bodies of soldiers and drink the blood of the rulers of the earth, all of whom will be killed like rams or lambs or goats or fat bulls.
19 When I kill these people like sacrifices, the birds and animals are to eat all the fat they can hold and to drink blood until they are drunk.
20 At my table they will eat all they can hold of horses and their riders and of soldiers and fighting men. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken."
21 The Lord said, "I will let the nations see my glory and show them how I use my power to carry out my just decisions.
22 The Israelites will know from then on that I am the Lord their God.

Cross References 1

  • 1. 39.17-20Revelation 19.17, 18.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. [Some ancient translations] those bodies; [Hebrew] the travelers.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.