Chapter 39

Our Lord permitting Gog, most vehemently to afflict the Church, ℣.3 after a while will destroy him, with all this troops: ℣.9 their weapons shall be burned, ℣.11 their sepulchres infamous, the earth not fully cleansed of their carcases in seven months. ℣.17 God's people shall rejoice; ℣.22 and all men shall know that their sins were the cause of their captivity.

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   But thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, & thou shalt say: Thus saith our Lord God: Behold I upon thee Gog, the Prince of the head of Mosoch and Thubal.

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   And I will turn thee about, & will reduce thee, and will make thee ascend from the sides of the North: & will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel.

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   And I will strike thy bow in thy left hand, & thine arrows I will cast down out of thy right hand.

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   Upon the mountains of Israel shalt thou fall, and all thy troops, and thy peoples that are with thee: to the wild beasts, to the birds, and to every fowl, and to the beasts of the earth have I given thee to be devoured.

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   Thou shalt fall upon the face of the field: because I have spoken, saith our Lord God.

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   And I will send in fire upon Magog, and on them that dwell in the islands confidently: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

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   And my holy name will I make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will pollute my holy name no more: and the Gentiles shall know that I am the Lord the holy one of Israel.

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   Behold it cometh, and it is done, saith our Lord God: this is the day, whereof I have spoken.

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   And the inhabitants shall go forth of the cities of Israel, and shall set on fire and burn weapons, buckler, and spears, bow and arrows, and hand-staves, and poleaxes: and they shall burn them with fire seven years.

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    And they shall not carry trees out of the countries, nor cut down out of the forests: because they shall burn the weapons with fire, & shall make prey of them, to whom they had been a prey, & they shall spoil their spoilers, saith our Lord God.

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    And it shall be in that day: I will give Gog a renowned place for a sepulchre in Israel: the valley of wayfaring men on the East of the sea, which shall make them that pass by to be astonished: & they shall there burn Gog, and all his multitude, and it shall be called the valley of the multitude of Gog.

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    And the house of Israel shall bury them, that they may cleanse the land seven months.

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    And all the people of the land shall bury him, and it shall be unto them a renowned day, wherein I was glorified, saith our Lord God.

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    And they shall appoint men continually going about the land, to bury & to seek them, that were remaining upon the face of the earth, that they may cleanse it: and after seven months they shall begin to seek.

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    And they that travel through the land shall go about: and when they shall see the bone of man, they shall set up a sign beside it, till the buriers bury it in the valley of the multitude of Gog.

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    And the name of the city Amona, and they shall cleanse the land.

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    Thou therefore o son of man, saith our Lord God, say to every fowl, and to all birds, and to all the beasts of the field: Come together, make haste, run together on every side to my victim, which I immolate for you, the great victim upon the mountains of Israel: that you may eat the flesh, and drink the blood.

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    The flesh of the strong shall you eat, and the blood of the princes of the earth shall you drink: of rams, of lambs, and of buckgoats, and bulls, and of fed wares, and of all fat things.

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    And you shall eat the fat your fill, and shall drink blood till you be drunk of the victim, which I shall immolate for you.

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    And you shall be filled upon my table of horse, and strong horsemen, and of all the men of war, saith our Lord God.

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    and I will put my glory in the Gentiles: and all nations shall see my judgement, that I have done, and my hand, that I have put upon them.

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    And the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day and so forward.

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    And the Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel was taken in their iniquity, for that they forsook me, and I hid my face from them: and delivered them into the hands of the enemies, and they fell all by the sword.

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    According to their uncleanness and wickedness have I done to them, and have hid my face from them.

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    Therefore thus saith our Lord God: Now will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and will have mercy on all the house of Israel: and I will take on me zeal for my holy name.

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    And they shall bear their confusion, and all the prevarication wherewith they prevaricated against me, when they shall dwell in their land confidently fearing no man:

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    and I shall have brought them back out of the peoples, & shall have gathered them together out of the lands of their enemies, and shall be sanctified in them, in the eyes of many nations.

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    And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, for that I transported them into the nations, and have gathered them together upon their own land, & have not left any of them there.

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    And I will hide my face no more from them, because I have poured out my spirit upon all the house of Israel, saith our Lord God.