Ezekiel 38

1Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

2“Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,Cross-references: Gen 10:2 · 1Chr 1:5 · Isa 66:19 · Ezek 2:1 · Ezek 6:2 · Ezek 20:46 · +9 more

3and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.Cross-references: Ezek 13:8 · Ezek 29:3 · Ezek 35:3 · Ezek 39:1

4I will turn you around, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords;Cross-references: 2Ki 19:28 · 1Chr 12:8 · 2Chr 25:5 · Isa 37:29 · Jer 46:9 · Ezek 23:12 · +4 more

5Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;Cross-references: Gen 10:6 · Gen 10:8 · 1Chr 1:8 · Ezek 27:10 · Ezek 30:5 · Nah 3:9

6Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes—even many peoples with you.Cross-references: Gen 10:2 · 1Chr 1:5 · Ezek 27:14 · Dan 11:40

7“‘“Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies who are assembled to you, and be a guard to them.Cross-references: 2Chr 25:8 · Ps 2:1 · Isa 8:9 · Isa 37:22 · Jer 46:3 · Jer 46:14 · +4 more

8After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into 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 brought out of the peoples and they will dwell securely, all of them.Cross-references: Gen 49:1 · Ex 20:5 · Num 24:14 · Deut 4:30 · Isa 11:11 · Isa 24:22 · +23 more

9You will ascend. You will come like a storm. You will be like a cloud to cover the land, you and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.”Cross-references: Isa 8:9 · Isa 21:1 · Isa 25:4 · Isa 28:2 · Jer 4:13 · Ezek 13:11 · +3 more

10“‘The Lord Yahweh says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.Cross-references: Ps 36:4 · Ps 83:3 · Ps 139:2 · Prov 6:14 · Prov 6:18 · Prov 12:2 · +9 more

11You will say, ‘I will go up to the land of unwalled villages. I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,Cross-references: Ex 15:9 · Judg 18:7 · Judg 18:27 · Ps 10:9 · Prov 1:11 · Prov 3:29 · +5 more

12to take the plunder and to take prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.’Cross-references: Judg 9:37 · Isa 1:24 · Isa 10:6 · Jer 30:16 · Jer 32:43 · Jer 33:12 · +8 more

13Sheba, Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all its young lions, will ask you, ‘Have you come to take the plunder? Have you assembled your company to take the prey, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’”’Cross-references: Ps 57:4 · Isa 10:6 · Jer 15:13 · Jer 50:17 · Jer 51:38 · Ezek 19:3 · +9 more

14“Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “In that day when my people Israel dwells securely, will you not know it?Cross-references: Isa 4:1 · Jer 23:6 · Ezek 37:28 · Ezek 38:8 · Ezek 38:11 · Zech 2:5 · +1 more

15You will 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.Cross-references: Ezek 38:4 · Ezek 38:6 · Ezek 39:2 · Dan 11:40 · Joel 3:2 · Zeph 3:8 · +5 more

16You will come up against my people Israel as a cloud to cover the land. It will happen in the latter days that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me when I am sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.”Cross-references: Ex 14:4 · Deut 31:29 · 1Sam 17:45 · 2Ki 19:19 · Ps 83:17 · Isa 2:2 · +16 more

17“‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for years that I would bring you against them?Cross-references: Ps 110:5 · Isa 27:1 · Isa 34:1 · Isa 63:1 · Isa 66:15 · Ezek 38:10 · +5 more

18It will happen in that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that my wrath will come up into my nostrils.Cross-references: Deut 32:22 · Ps 18:7 · Ps 89:46 · Ezek 36:5 · Nah 1:2 · Heb 12:29

19For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath I have spoken. Surely in that day there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel,Cross-references: Deut 29:20 · Ps 18:7 · Isa 42:13 · Ezek 5:13 · Ezek 39:25 · Joel 2:18 · +8 more

20so that the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the animals of the field, all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth will shake at my presence. Then the mountains will be thrown down, the steep places will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground.Cross-references: Isa 30:25 · Jer 4:23 · Hos 4:3 · Nah 1:4 · Zech 14:4 · 2Cor 10:4 · +1 more

21I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Every man’s sword will be against his brother.Cross-references: Judg 7:22 · 1Sam 14:20 · 2Chr 20:23 · Ps 105:16 · Ezek 14:17 · Hag 2:22

22I will enter into judgment with him with pestilence and with blood. I will rain on him, on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, torrential rains with great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.Cross-references: Gen 19:24 · Ex 9:22 · Josh 10:11 · Ps 11:6 · Ps 18:12 · Ps 77:16 · +10 more

23I will magnify myself and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”’Cross-references: Ps 9:16 · Ezek 36:23 · Ezek 37:28 · Ezek 38:16 · Ezek 39:7 · Ezek 39:13 · +3 more