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== Yechezkel (Book of Ezekiel), Chapter 38 ==


<named id="1"/><sup>1</sup> And the word of HaShem came unto me, saying: 

<named id="2"/><sup>2</sup> 'Son of man, set thy face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, 

<named id="3"/><sup>3</sup> and say: Thus saith the L-rd GOD: Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal; 

<named id="4"/><sup>4</sup> and I will turn thee about, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed most gorgeously, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords: 

<named id="5"/><sup>5</sup> Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet; 

<named id="6"/><sup>6</sup> Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all his bands; even many peoples with thee. 

<named id="7"/><sup>7</sup> Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou guarded of them. 

<named id="8"/><sup>8</sup> After many days thou shalt be mustered for service, in the latter years thou shalt come against the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, against the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought forth out of the peoples, and they dwell safely all of them. 

<named id="9"/><sup>9</sup> And thou shalt ascend, thou shalt come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many peoples with thee. 

<named id="10"/><sup>10</sup> Thus saith the L-rd GOD: It shall come to pass in that day, that things shall come into thy mind, and thou shalt devise an evil device; 

<named id="11"/><sup>11</sup> and thou shalt say: I will go up against the land of unwalled villages; I will come upon them that are at quiet, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates; 

<named id="12"/><sup>12</sup> to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn thy hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and against the people that are gathered out of the nations, that have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the middle of the earth. 

<named id="13"/><sup>13</sup> Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the magnates thereof, shall say unto thee: Comest thou to take the spoil? hast thou assembled thy company to take the prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take great spoil?


<named id="14"/><sup>14</sup> Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say unto Gog: Thus saith the L-rd GOD: In that day when My people Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it? 

<named id="15"/><sup>15</sup> And thou shalt come from thy place out of the uttermost parts of the north, thou, and many peoples with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company and a mighty army; 

<named id="16"/><sup>16</sup> and thou shalt come up against My people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the end of days, and I will bring thee against My land, that the nations may know Me, when I shall be sanctified through thee, O Gog, before their eyes. 

<named id="17"/><sup>17</sup> Thus saith the L-rd GOD: Art thou he of whom I spoke in old time by My servants the prophets of Israel, that prophesied in those days for many years, that I would bring thee against them? 

<named id="18"/><sup>18</sup> And it shall come to pass in that day, when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the L-rd GOD, that My fury shall arise up in My nostrils. 

<named id="19"/><sup>19</sup> 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; 

<named id="20"/><sup>20</sup> 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 ground, and all the men that are upon the face 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. 

<named id="21"/><sup>21</sup> And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the L-rd GOD; every man's sword shall be against his brother. 

<named id="22"/><sup>22</sup> And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will cause to rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many peoples that are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. 

<named id="23"/><sup>23</sup> Thus will I magnify Myself, and sanctify Myself, and I will make Myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am HaShem. 


== See also ==
* [[Yechezkel 37|Previous Chapter]]
* [[Yechezkel 38 Commentaries]]
* [[Yechezkel 39|Next Chapter]]

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