Ezekiel 39 - Lexham English Bible (LEB)

God’s Destruction of Gog and His Hordes

39 “And you, son of man,^[a] prophesy against Gog, and you must say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Look! I am against you Gog, the head^[b] leader of Meshech and Tubal, ² and I will turn you around, and I will drag you along, and I will bring you up from the remote areas of the north, and I will bring you against the mountains of Israel, ³ and I will strike your bow from your left hand,^[c] and your arrows from your right hand^[d] I will cause to fall. ⁴ On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all of your troops, and the peoples who are with you, to birds^[e] of prey, birds of every wing,^[f] and animals of the field I will give you as food. ⁵ On the surface of the field you will fall, for I myself^[g] have spoken,” declares^[h] the Lord Yahweh. ⁶ “And I will send fire against Magog and among the people inhabiting the coastlands in safety,^[i] and they will know that I am Yahweh. ⁷ And my holy name^[j] I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let the name of my holiness be profaned anymore, and the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the holy one in Israel. ⁸ Look! it is coming, and it will happen,” declares^[k] the Lord Yahweh. “It is the day about which I have spoken.^[l]

⁹ “ʻ“And the inhabitants of the towns^[m] of Israel will go out, and they will set ablaze, and they will kindle a fire with a weapon^[n] and a small shield and a shield,^[o] with a bow and with arrows, and with hand clubs^[p] and with spears,^[q] and so they will light a fire with them, a fire lasting seven years.^{[r] 10} And they will not carry trees from the field, and they will not chop wood from the forests, for with the weapons^[s] they will light a fire; and they will plunder those plundering them, and they will plunder those plundering them,”’ declares^[t] the Lord Yahweh.

¹¹ “‘“And then^[u] on that day I will give to Gog a grave there^[v] in Israel, The Valley of the Travelers, east of the sea,^[w] and it will block^[x] the travelers and Gog and all of his hordes^[y] they will bury there, and they will call it the Valley of Hamon-Gog.^{[z] 12} And the house of Israel will bury them for seven months to cleanse the land. ¹³ All of the people of the land will bury them, and it will be an honor for them on the day when I appear,”’ declares^[aa] the Lord Yahweh. ¹⁴ ʻ“And they will set apart men to continually^[ab] go through the land burying the travelers,^[ac] the ones left over on the surface of the land to cleanse it; for the whole of^[ad] seven months they will explore it. ¹⁵ And the ones going through, they will go through within the land, and if anyone sees the bones of a person, then he will build beside it a sign to remain until the buriers have buried him in the Valley of Hamon-Gog.^{[ae] 16} And furthermore the name of the city there is Hamonah,^[af] and thus they will cleanse the land.”’

¹⁷ “And you, son of man,^[ag] thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Say to all kinds of birds and animals of the field,^[ah] “Be gathered, come be gathered from everywhere^[ai] to my sacrifice that I am sacrificing for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, and you will eat flesh, and you will drink blood. ¹⁸ Flesh of warriors you will eat, and the blood of leaders of the land you will drink; rams, young rams and goats, bulls, and the fattened animals of Bashan—all of them! ¹⁹ And you will eat fat until you are satiated,^[aj] and you will drink blood until you are drunk^[ak] from my sacrifice that I sacrifice for you, ²⁰ and you will be satisfied at my table with horse and horsemen and warriors and every man of war,”’ declares^[al] the Lord Yahweh. ²¹ “And I will display my glory among the nations, and all of the nations will see my judgment that I have executed and my hand that I have laid upon them.

²² “And the house of Israel will know that I am Yahweh their God from that day and beyond, ²³ and the nations will know that because of their guilt the house of Israel went into exile, because^[am] they acted unfaithfully against me, and I hid my face from them, and I gave them into the hand of their foes, and they fell by the sword, all of them. ²⁴ According to their uncleanness and according to their transgression I dealt with them, and I hid my face from them.

²⁵ Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob, and I will have compassion on all of the house of Israel, and I will be jealous^[an] for my holy name.^{[ao] 26} And they will forget their disgrace and all of their infidelity that they displayed against me when they dwelt on their soil in safety^[ap] with nobody making them afraid.^{[aq] 27} When I restore them from the nations and I gather them from the countries of their enemies, then I will show myself holy through them before the eyes of many nations. ²⁸ And they will know that I am Yahweh their God, because of when I deported them into the nations, and I reassembled them to their soil, and I will not let any of them remain there any longer.^{[ar] 29} And I will not hide my face again from them when I pour out my Spirit over^[as] the house of Israel,” declares^[at] the Lord Yahweh.

Footnotes

1. Ezekiel 39:1 Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
2. Ezekiel 39:1 Or “chief”
3. Ezekiel 39:3 Literally “the hand of left your”
4. Ezekiel 39:3 Literally “the hand of right your”
5. Ezekiel 39:4 Hebrew “bird”
6. Ezekiel 39:4 Or “kind”
7. Ezekiel 39:5 Literally “I, I”
8. Ezekiel 39:5 Literally “declaration of”
9. Ezekiel 39:6 Literally “with confidence/trust”
10. Ezekiel 39:7 Literally “the name of my holiness”
11. Ezekiel 39:8 Literally “declaration of”
12. Ezekiel 39:8 Literally “which I have spoken of”
13. Ezekiel 39:9 Or “cities”
14. Ezekiel 39:9 Or “weapons”
15. Ezekiel 39:9 Or “shields and bucklers”; cf. NJPS
16. Ezekiel 39:9 Literally “with club of hand”
17. Ezekiel 39:9 Hebrew “spear”
18. Ezekiel 39:9 Literally “a fire of seven years”
19. Ezekiel 39:10 Hebrew “weapon”
20. Ezekiel 39:10 Literally “declaration of”
21. Ezekiel 39:11 Literally “and it will happen”
22. Ezekiel 39:11 Literally “a place there of a grave”
23. Ezekiel 39:11 That is, the Dead Sea
24. Ezekiel 39:11 Literally “blocking”
25. Ezekiel 39:11 Hebrew “horde”
26. Ezekiel 39:11 Literally “Gog’s Multitude”
27. Ezekiel 39:13 Literally “declaration of”
28. Ezekiel 39:14 Literally “men of continuity/men who regularly”
29. Ezekiel 39:14 In a negative sense = “invaders”
30. Ezekiel 39:14 Literally “from the end of”
31. Ezekiel 39:15 Or “Gog’s multitude”
32. Ezekiel 39:16 That is, “Multitude”
33. Ezekiel 39:17 Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
34. Ezekiel 39:17 Literally “to bird of every wind and to every animal of the field”
35. Ezekiel 39:17 Literally “all around”
36. Ezekiel 39:19 Literally “satiation/gluttony”
37. Ezekiel 39:19 Literally “to drunkenness”
38. Ezekiel 39:20 Literally “declaration of”
39. Ezekiel 39:23 Literally “because that”
40. Ezekiel 39:25 Or “zealous”
41. Ezekiel 39:25 Literally “for the name of holiness my”
42. Ezekiel 39:26 Literally “with confidence”
43. Ezekiel 39:26 Literally “and not was somebody making afraid”
44. Ezekiel 39:28 Literally “not I will leave over/let remain again/still from them there”
45. Ezekiel 39:29 Or “upon”
46. Ezekiel 39:29 Literally “declaration of”