Ezequiel 39

¹ Therefore, thou sonne of man, prophecie against Gog, and say, Thus sayeth the Lorde God, Behold, I come against thee, O Gog, ye chiefe prince of Meshech and Tubal.

² And I will turn thee back,Or, destroy you with six plagues, as in (Eze_38:22).and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:

³ And I will smite thy bowe out of thy left hand, and I will cause thine arrowes to fall out of thy right hand.

⁴ ThouMeaning that by the virtue of God's word the enemy will be destroyed wherever he assails his Church.shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy troops, and the people that [are] with thee: I will give thee to the ravenous birds of every sort, and [to] the beasts of the field to be devoured.

⁵ Thou shalt fall vpon the open fielde: for I haue spoken it, sayth the Lord God.

⁶ And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell securely in theThat is, among all nations where the enemies of my people dwell, no matter how separate they seem.isles: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.

⁷ So will I make mine holy Name knowen in the middes of my people Israel, and I will not suffer them to pollute mine holy Name any more, and the heathen shal knowe that I am the Lord, the holy one of Israel.

⁸ Behold,That is, this plague is fully determined in my counsel and cannot be changed.it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this [is] the day of which I have spoken.

⁹ And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shallAfter this destruction the Church will have great peace and tranquillity and burn all their weapons because they will no more fear the enemies. This chiefly refers to the accomplishment of Christ's kingdom when by their head Christ all enemies will be overcome.go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the javelins, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:

¹⁰ So that they shall bring no wood out of the fielde, neither cut downe any out of the forestes: for they shall burne the weapons with fire, and they shall robbe those that robbed them, and spoyle those that spoyled them, sayeth the Lorde God.

¹¹ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] I will give to GogWhich declares that the enemies will have a horrible fall.a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the travellers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop theFor the stink of the carcasses.[noses] of the travellers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call [it] The valley of Hamongog.

¹² Meaning a long time.And seven months shall the house of Israel be in burying them, that they may cleanse the land.

¹³ Yea, all the people of the lande shall burie them, and they shall haue a name when I shall be glorified, saith the Lord God.

¹⁴ And they shall set apart men for [the] continual task of passing through thePartly that the holy land should not be polluted and partly for the compassion that the children of God have even on their enemies.land to bury with the travellers those that remain upon the face of the land, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.

¹⁵ And the trauailers that passe through the land, if any see a mans bone, then shall he set vp a signe by it, till the buriers haue buried it, in the valley of Hamon-Gog.

¹⁶ And also the name of the citie shalbe Hamonah: thus shall they clense the land.

¹⁷ And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak to every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come;By which he signifies the horrible destruction that would come on the enemies of his Church.gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, [even] a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.

¹⁸ Ye shall eate the flesh of the valiant, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of the weathers, of the lambes, and of the goates, and of bullockes, euen of all fat beastes of Bashan.

¹⁹ And ye shall eate fat till you be full, and drinke blood, till ye be drunken of my sacrifice, which I haue sacrificed for you.

²⁰ Thus you shalbe filled at my table with horses and chariots, with valiant men, and with al men of warre, sayth the Lord God.

²¹ And I wil set my glory among the heathe, and all the heathen shall see my iudgement, that I haue executed, and mine hand, which I haue layed vpon them.

²² So the house of Israel shall knowe, that I am the Lord their God fro that day and so forth.

²³ And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity forThe heathen will know that they did not overcome my people by their strength, neither yet by the weakness of my arm, but that this was for my people's sins.their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore I hid my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so they all fell by the sword.

²⁴ According to their vncleannes, and according to their transgressions haue I done vnto the, and hid my face from them.

²⁵ Therefore thus sayth the Lord God, Nowe will I bring againe the captiuitie of Iaakob, and haue compassion vpon the whole house of Israel, and wil be ielous for mine holy Name,

²⁶ After that they haue borne their shame, & all their transgression, whereby they haue transgressed against me, whe they dwelt safely in their land, and without feare of any.

²⁷ When I haue brought them againe from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies landes, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations,

²⁸ Then shal they know, that I am the Lord their God, which caused them to be led into captiuitie among the heathen: but I haue gathered them vnto their owne land, and haue left none of them any more there,

²⁹ Neither wil I hide my face any more from them: for I haue powred out my Spirit vpon the house of Israel, sayth the Lord God.