(Ezekiel 39:9-29)
9 Those who live in
the towns of Israel will go out
And use the weapons
for fuel and burn them up--
The small and large
shields, the bows and arrows,
The war clubs and
spears.
For seven years they
will use them for fuel.
10 They will not
need to gather wood from the fields
Or cut it from the
forests,
Because they will
use the weapons for fuel.
And they will
plunder those who plundered them
And loot those who
looted them,' declares the Sovereign Lord.
11 'On that day I
will give Gog a burial place in Israel,
In the valley of
those who travel east toward the Sea (the Dead Sea).
It will block the
way of travelers,
Because Gog and all
his hordes will be buried there.
So it will be called
the Valley of Hamon Gog.
12 For seven months
the house of Israel will be burying them
In order to cleanse
the land.
All the people of
the land will bury them,
AND THE DAY I AM
GLORIFIED
WILL BE A
MEMORABLE DAY FOR THEM,'
Declares the
Sovereign Lord.
14 'Men will be
regularly employed to cleanse the land.
Some will go
throughout the land and, in addition to them,
Others will bury
those that remain on the ground.
At the end of the
seven months they will begin their search.
15 As they go
through the land and one of them sees a human bone,
He will set up a
marker beside it until the gravediggers have buried it
In the Valley of
Hamon Gog.
16 (Also a town call
Hamonah will be there.)
And so they will
cleanse the land.'
17 Son of man, this
is what the Sovereign Lord says:
'CALL
OUT TO EVERY KIND OF BIRD
AND
ALL THE WILD ANIMALS:
Assemble and come
together from all around
To the sacrifice I
am preparing for you,
The great sacrifice
on the mountains of Israel.
There you will eat
flesh and drink blood.
18 You will eat the
flesh of mighty men
And drink the blood
of the princes of the earth
As if they were rams
and lambs, goats and bulls--
All of them fattened
animals from Bashan.
19 At the sacrifice
I am preparing for you,
You will eat fat
till you are glutted
And drink blood till
you are drunk.
20 At my table you
will eat your fill of horses and riders,
Mighty men and
soldiers of every kind,' declares the Sovereign Lord.
'21 I will
display my glory among the nations,
And
all the nations will see the punishment I inflict
And the hand I lay
upon them.
22
From that day forward the house of Israel will know
That
I am the Lord their God.
23 And the nations
will know
That the people of
Israel went into exile for their sin,
Because they were
unfaithful to me.
So I hid my face
from them
And handed them over
to their enemies,
And they all fell by
the sword.
24 I dealt with them
according to their uncleanness
And their offenses,
and I hid my face from them.'
25 Therefore this is
what the Sovereign Lord says:
'I will now bring
Jacob back from captivity
And will have
compassion on all the people of Israel,
And
I will be zealous for my holy name.
26 They will forget
their shame
And all the
unfaithfulness they showed toward me
When they lived in
safety in their land
With no one to make
them afraid.
27 When I have
brought them back from the nations
And have gathered
them from the countries of their enemies,
I
will show myself holy through them in the sight of many nations.
28 Then they will
know that I am the Lord their God,
For though I sent
them into exile among the nations,
I will gather them
to their own land, not leaving any behind.
29 I will no longer
hid my face from them,
For I will pour out
my Spirit on the house of Israel,'
Declares the
Sovereign Lord.
(The house of Israel
spoken of here is the Nation Israel).
(Ezekiel 39:9-29)
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