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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Ezekiel 39 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ezekiel/39.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ezekiel/39-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Ezekiel 39</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezekiel/38.htm" title="Ezekiel 38">◄</a> Ezekiel 39 <a href="../ezekiel/40.htm" title="Ezekiel 40">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/ezekiel/39.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Son of man, prophesy against Gog and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span> says: I am against you, Gog, chief prince of <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Gog, prince of Rosh,">a</a></sup></span> Meshek and Tubal. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I will turn you around and drag you along. I will bring you from the far north and send you against the mountains of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then I will strike your bow from your left hand and make your arrows drop from your right hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>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 all kinds of carrion birds and to the wild animals. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in safety in the coastlands, and they will know that I am the <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“ ‘I will make known my holy name among my people Israel. I will no longer let my holy name be profaned, and the nations will know that I the <span class="name">Lord</span> am the Holy One in Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>It is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span>. This is the day I have spoken of.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“ ‘Then 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>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 <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“ ‘On that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, in the valley of those who travel east of the 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. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hamon Gog means hordes of Gog.">b</a></sup></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“ ‘For seven months the Israelites will be burying them in order to cleanse the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>All the people of the land will bury them, and the day I display my glory will be a memorable day for them, declares the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>People will be continually employed in cleansing the land. They will spread out across the land and, along with others, they will bury any bodies that are lying on the ground.</p><p class="reg">“ ‘After the seven months they will carry out a more detailed search. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>As they go through the land, anyone who sees a human bone will leave a marker beside it until the gravediggers bury it in the Valley of Hamon Gog, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>near a town called Hamonah. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hamonah means horde.">c</a></sup></span> And so they will cleanse the land.’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Son of man, this is what the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span> 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>At the sacrifice I am preparing for you, you will eat fat till you are glutted and drink blood till you are drunk. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>At my table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, mighty men and soldiers of every kind,’ declares the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“I will display my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the punishment I inflict and the hand I lay on them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>From that day forward the people of Israel will know that I am the <span class="name">Lord</span> their God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their offenses, and I hid my face from them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“Therefore this is what the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span> says: I will now restore the fortunes of Jacob <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or now bring Jacob back from captivity">d</a></sup></span> and will have compassion on all the people of Israel, and I will be zealous for my holy name. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>When I have brought them back from the nations and have gathered them from the countries of their enemies, I will be proved holy through them in the sight of many nations. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Then they will know that I am the <span class="name">Lord</span> their God, for though I sent them into exile among the nations, I will gather them to their own land, not leaving any behind. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/39-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>I will no longer hide my face from them, for I will pour out my Spirit on the people of Israel, declares the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span>.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>Gog, prince of Rosh,</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Hamon Gog</i> means <i>hordes of Gog.</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Hamonah</i> means <i>horde.</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">25</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>now bring Jacob back from captivity</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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