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16 You will advance[a] against my people Israel like a cloud covering the earth. In future days I will bring you against my land so that the nations may acknowledge me, when before their eyes I magnify myself[b] through you, O Gog.

17 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days by my servants[c] the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days[d] that I would bring you against them? 18 On that day, when Gog invades[e] the land of Israel, declares the Sovereign Lord, my rage will mount up in my anger.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 38:16 tn Heb “come up.”
  2. Ezekiel 38:16 tn Or “reveal my holiness.”
  3. Ezekiel 38:17 tn Heb “by the hand of my servants.”
  4. Ezekiel 38:17 tn The Hebrew text adds “years” here, but this is probably a scribal gloss on the preceding phrase. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:201.
  5. Ezekiel 38:18 tn Heb “goes up against.”