Ezekiel 38
The Prophecy against
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And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the
land of Magog, Rev. 20.8 the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against
him,
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and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the
chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
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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 armor,
even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of
them handling swords:
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Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them;
all of them with shield and helmet:
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Gomer, and all his bands; the house of
Togar'mah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many
people with thee.
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Be thou prepared, and prepare for
thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and
be thou a guard unto them.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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,
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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:
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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;
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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
mountans shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and
every wall shall fall to the ground.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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