The Bible
Ezekiel Chapter 38
1The word of ForeverOne
7Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies who are assembled to you, and be a guard to them.
8After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you shall enter the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is made out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of them.
9You shall ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.
10Thus says LordOfMine
13Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, shall tell you, Have you come to take the spoil? Have you assembled your company to take the prey, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great spoil?
14Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, Thus says LordOfMine
15You shall 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 company and a mighty army; 16and you shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land: in the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.
17Thus says LordOfMine
18In that day, when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, says LordOfMine
19For 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; 20so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the field, and all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface 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.
21I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains, says LordOfMine
22With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.
23I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am ForeverOne
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