Ezekiel 39:8-10

Good News Translation

⁸The Sovereign Lord said, “The day I spoke about is certain to come. ⁹The people who live in the cities of Israel will go out and collect the abandoned weapons for firewood. They will build fires with the shields, bows, arrows, spears, and clubs, and have enough to last for seven years. ¹⁰They will not have to gather firewood in the fields or cut down trees in the forest, because they will have the abandoned weapons to burn. They will loot and plunder those who looted and plundered them.” The Sovereign Lord has spoken.

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Ezekiel 39:8-10

New International Version

⁸It is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign Lord. This is the day^(A) I have spoken of.

⁹“‘Then those who live in the towns of Israel will go out and use the weapons for fuel and burn them up—the small and large shields, the bows and arrows,^(B) the war clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel.^(C) ¹⁰They will not need to gather wood from the fields or cut it from the forests, because they will use the weapons for fuel. And they will plunder^(D) those who plundered them and loot those who looted them, declares the Sovereign Lord.^(E)

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Ezekiel 39:8-10

King James Version

⁸Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord God; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

⁹And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:

¹⁰So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord God.

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