Dual Panel1THIS word of the LORD came to me:
2“O man, face towards Gog in the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him.
3Say: These are the words of the Lord GOD: I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.
4I shall put hooks in your jaws and turn you round. I shall lead you out, you and your whole army, horses and horsemen, all fully equipped, a great host with bucklers and shields, every man wielding a sword.
5With them will march the men of Persia, Cush, and Put, all with shields and helmets,
6Gomer and all its squadrons, Beth-togarmah with all its squadrons from the far recesses of the north -- a great concourse of peoples with you.
7Be prepared; make ready, you and all the host which has rallied to you, and hold yourselves at my disposal.
8After a long time has passed you will be summoned; in years to come you will invade a land restored from ruin, whose people are gathered from many nations on the mountains of Israel that have been so long desolate. The Israelites, brought out from the nations, will all be living undisturbed;
9and you will come up, advancing like a hurricane; you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your squadrons, a great concourse of peoples.
10“The Lord GOD says: At that time a thought will enter your head and you will hatch an evil plan.
11You will say, ‘I shall attack a land of open villages and fall upon a people living quiet and undisturbed, undefended by walls or barred gates.’
12You will expect to come plundering, spoiling, and stripping bare the settlements which once lay in ruins, but are now inhabited by a people gathered out of the nations, a people acquiring livestock and goods, and making their home at the very centre of the world.
13Sheba and Dedan, the traders of Tarshish and her leading merchants, will say to you, ‘Is it for plunder that you have come? Have you mustered your host to get spoil, to carry off silver and gold, to take livestock and goods, to seize much booty?’
14“Therefore, O man, prophesy and say to Gog: The Lord GOD says: On that day when my people Israel are living undisturbed, will you not bestir yourself
15and come with many nations from your home in the far recesses of the north, all riding on horses, a large host, a mighty army?
16You will advance against my people Israel like a cloud that covers the earth. In the last days I shall bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when they see me prove my holiness at Gog's expense.
17“The Lord GOD says: When I spoke in days of old through my servants the prophets, who prophesied in those days unceasingly, it was you whom I threatened to bring against Israel.
18On that day, when at length Gog invades Israel, says the Lord GOD, my wrath will boil over.
19In my jealousy and in the heat of my anger I swear that there will be a great earthquake throughout the land of Israel on that day,
20and the fish in the sea and the birds in the air, the wild animals and all creatures that move on the ground, and every human being on the face of the earth will quake before me. Mountains will be overthrown, the terraced hills collapse, and every wall crash to the ground.
21I shall summon universal terror against Gog, says the Lord GOD, and his men will turn their swords against one another.
22I shall bring him to judgement with pestilence and bloodshed; I shall pour torrential rain and hailstones as well as fire and brimstone on him and his squadrons and the whole concourse of peoples with him.
23I shall show myself great and holy and make myself known to many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.