Ezekiel 38:16-18

International Standard Version

¹⁶ You’ll come up to invade my people Israel like a storm cloud to cover the land. In the last days, Gog, I’ll bring you up to invade my land so that the world will learn to know me when I show them how holy I am before their very eyes.”’”

A Prediction for the Distant Future

¹⁷ “This is what the Lord God says: ‘Surely you’re the one about whom I spoke years ago in the writings^[a] of my servants, Israel’s prophets, aren’t you? They predicted back then that I would bring you up after many years, didn’t they? ¹⁸ So it will be that on that day, when Gog^[b] invades the land of Israel,’ declares the Lord God, ‘my zeal will ignite my anger.