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and say this.

This is what the Lord God says. I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshek, and Tubal.[a] I will turn you around. I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will bring you out with your entire army, horses and horsemen, all of them magnificently arrayed, a vast horde[b] armed with body shields and hand shields, all of them wielding swords. Persia, Cush, and Libya[c] are with them, all of them with hand shields and helmets,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 38:3 Places far to the north, in present-day Ukraine and Russia
  2. Ezekiel 38:4 The biblical accounts regularly use the Hebrew term hamon to refer to hostile, heathen armies. This term refers to a noisy, disorderly crowd. In reference to a barbarian army, horde is an appropriate rendering.
  3. Ezekiel 38:5 Hebrew Paras, Cush, and Put. These are the most distant places Israel was familiar with in North Africa and Asia.