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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 38 ESV</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> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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/38.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/38-1.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="../">ESV</a> > Ezekiel 38</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/37.htm" title="Ezekiel 37">◄</a> Ezekiel 38 <a href="../ezekiel/39.htm" title="Ezekiel 39">►</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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/ezekiel/38.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Prophecy Against Gog</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/38-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to me: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/38-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech">a</a></sup></span> and Tubal, and prophesy against him <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/38-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and say, Thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech">b</a></sup></span> and Tubal. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/38-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great host, all of them with buckler and shield, wielding swords. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/38-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Persia, Cush, and Put are with them, all of them with shield and helmet; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/38-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Gomer and all his hordes; Beth-togarmah from the uttermost parts of the north with all his hordes—many peoples are with you.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/38-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Be ready and keep ready, you and all your hosts that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/38-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>After many days you will be mustered. In the latter years you will go against the land that is restored from war, the land whose people were gathered from many peoples upon the mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste. Its people were brought out from the peoples and now dwell securely, all of them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/38-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You will advance, coming on like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/38-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: On that day, thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/38-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and say, ‘I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will fall upon the quiet people who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having no bars or gates,’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/38-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/38-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its leaders<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew young lions">c</a></sup></span> will say to you, ‘Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hosts to carry off plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to seize great spoil?’</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/38-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say to Gog, Thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: On that day when my people Israel are dwelling securely, will you not know it? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/38-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>You will come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great host, a mighty army. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/38-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/38-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: Are you he of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who in those days prophesied for years that I would bring you against them? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/38-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But on that day, the day that Gog shall come against the land of Israel, declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>, my wrath will be roused in my anger. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/38-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For in my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare, On that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/38-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep on the ground, and all the people who are on the face of the earth, shall quake at my presence. And the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/38-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I will summon a sword against Gog<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew against him">d</a></sup></span> on all my mountains, declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>. Every man’s sword will be against his brother. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/38-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/38-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">Magog, the</span> prince of Rosh, Meshech</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">Gog</span>, prince of Rosh, Meshech</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> Hebrew <i>young lions</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">21</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">against</span> him</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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