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15 You’ll come in from your home[a] in the remotest parts of the north. You’ll come with many nations, all of them riding along on horses. You’ll be a huge, combined army. 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[b] 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?

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 38:15 Lit. place
  2. Ezekiel 38:17 Lit. ago by the hand

15 You will come from your place in the far north,(A) you and many nations with you, all of them riding on horses, a great horde, a mighty army.(B) 16 You will advance against my people Israel like a cloud(C) that covers the land.(D) In days to come, Gog, I will bring you against my land, so that the nations may know me when I am proved holy(E) through you before their eyes.(F)

17 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You are the one I spoke of in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel. At that time they prophesied for years that I would bring you against them.

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