The Slaughter of Gog’s Armies 1 Brenton And thou, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, Rhos prince of Mesoch and Thobel: BSB BSB: “As for you, O son of man, prophesy against Gog and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.
2 Brenton and I will assemble thee, and guide thee, and raise thee up on the extremity of the north, and I will bring thee up upon the mountains of Israel. BSB BSB: I will turn you around, drive you along, bring you up from the far north, and send you against the mountains of Israel.
3 Brenton And I will destroy thy bow out of thy left hand, and thine arrows out of thy right hand, and I will cast thee down on the mountains of Israel; BSB BSB: Then I will strike the bow from your left hand and dash down the arrows from your right hand.
4 Brenton and thou and all that belong to thee shall fall, and the nations that are with thee shall be given to multitudes of birds, even to every fowl, and I have given thee to all the wild beasts of the field to be devoured. BSB BSB: On the mountains of Israel you will fall—you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast.
5 Brenton Thou shalt fall on the face of the field: for I have spoken it , saith the Lord. BSB BSB: You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.
6 Brenton And I will send a fire upon Gog, and the islands shall be securely inhabited: and they shall know that I am the Lord. BSB BSB: I will send fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the coastlands, and they will know that I am the LORD.
7 Brenton And my holy name shall be known in the midst of my people Israel; and my holy name shall no more be profaned: and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. BSB BSB: So I will make My holy name known among My people Israel and will no longer allow it to be profaned. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Brenton Behold it is come, and thou shalt know that it shall be, saith the Lord God; this is the day concerning which I have spoken. BSB BSB: Yes, it is coming, and it will surely happen, declares the Lord GOD. This is the day of which I have spoken.
9 Brenton And they that inhabit the cities of Israel shall come forth, and make a fire with the arms, the shields and spears, and bows and arrows, and hand-staves, and lances, and they shall keep fire burning with them for seven years: BSB BSB: Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out, kindle fires, and burn up the weapons—the bucklers and shields, the bows and arrows, the clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel.
10 Brenton and they shall not take any wood out of the field, neither shall they cut any out of the forests, but they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall plunder those that plundered them, and spoil those that spoiled them, saith the Lord. BSB BSB: They will not gather wood from the countryside or cut it from the forests, for they will use the weapons for fuel. They will loot those who looted them and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord GOD.
11 Brenton And it shall come to pass that in that day I will give to Gog a place of renown, a tomb in Israel, the burial-place of them that approach the sea: and they shall build round about the outlet of the valley, and there they shall bury Gog and all his multitude: and the place shall then be called the burial-place of Gog. BSB BSB: And on that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Sea. It will block those who travel through, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon-gog.
12 Brenton And the house of Israel shall bury them, that the land may be cleansed in the space of seven months. BSB BSB: For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.
13 Brenton Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a place of renown in the day wherein it was glorified, saith the Lord. BSB BSB: All the people of the land will bury them, and it will bring them renown on the day I display My glory, declares the Lord GOD.
14 Brenton And they shall appoint men continually to go over the land, to bury them that have been left on the face of the earth, to cleanse it after the space of seven months, and they shall seek them out. BSB BSB: And men will be employed to continually pass through the land to cleanse it by burying the invaders who remain on the ground. At the end of the seven months they will begin their search.
15 Brenton And every one that goes through the land, and sees a man's bone, shall set up a mark by it, until the buriers shall have buried it in the valley, the burial-place of Gog. BSB BSB: As they pass through the land, anyone who sees a human bone will set up a pillar next to it, until the gravediggers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.
16 Brenton For the name of the city shall be Burial-place: so shall the land be cleansed. BSB BSB: (Even the city will be named Hamonah.) And so they will cleanse the land.
17 Brenton And thou, son of man, say, Thus saith the Lord; Say to every winged bird, and to all the wild beasts of the field, Gather yourselves, and come; gather yourselves from all places round about to my sacrifice, which I have made for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, and ye shall eat flesh, and drink blood. BSB BSB: And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.
18 Brenton Ye shall eat the flesh of mighty men, and ye shall drink the blood of the princes of the earth, rams, and calves and goats, and they are all fatted calves. BSB BSB: You will eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all the fattened animals of Bashan.
19 Brenton And ye shall eat fat till ye are full, and shall drink wine till ye are drunken, of my sacrifice which I have prepared for you. BSB BSB: At the sacrifice I am preparing, you will eat fat until you are gorged and drink blood until you are drunk.
20 Brenton And ye shall be filled at my table, eating horse, and rider, and mighty man, and every warrior, saith the Lord. BSB BSB: And at My table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, of mighty men and warriors of every kind,’ declares the Lord GOD.
Israel to Be Restored 21 Brenton And I will set my glory among you, and all the nations shall see my judgment which I have wrought, and my hand which I have brought upon them. BSB BSB: I will display My glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the judgment that I execute and the hand that I lay upon them.
22 Brenton And the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God, from this day and onwards. BSB BSB: From that day forward the house of Israel will know that I am the LORD their God.
23 Brenton And all the nations shall know that the house of Israel were led captive because of their sins, because they rebelled against me, and I turned away my face from them, and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword. BSB BSB: And the nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their iniquity, because they were unfaithful to Me. So I hid My face from them and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, so that they all fell by the sword.
24 Brenton According to their uncleannesses and according to their transgressions did I deal with them, and I turned away my face from them. BSB BSB: I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and transgressions, and I hid My face from them.
25 Brenton Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Now will I turn back captivity in Jacob, and will have mercy on the house of Israel, and will be jealous for the sake of my holy name. BSB BSB: Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Now I will restore Jacob from captivity and will have compassion on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for My holy name.
26 Brenton And they shall bear their reproach, and the iniquity which they committed when they dwelt upon their land in peace. Yet there shall be none to terrify them BSB BSB: They will forget their disgrace and all the treachery they committed against Me, when they dwell securely in their land, with no one to frighten them.
27 Brenton when I have brought them back from the nations, and gathered them out of the countries of the nations: and I will be sanctified among them in the presence of the nations. BSB BSB: When I bring them back from the peoples and gather them out of the lands of their enemies, I will show My holiness in them in the sight of many nations.
28 Brenton And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, when I have been manifested to them among the nations. BSB BSB: Then they will know that I am the LORD their God, when I regather them to their own land, not leaving any of them behind after their exile among the nations.
29 Brenton And I will no more turn away my face from them, because I have poured out my wrath upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God. BSB BSB: And I will no longer hide My face from them, for I will pour out My Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.”