Ezekiel 39:1-10

1‘Son of man, you must tell my message to Gog to warn him. Say to him, “This is what the Almighty Lord says: Listen! I am your enemy, Gog, prince of Meshech and Tubal.

2I will turn you around and I will pull you along. I will bring you from the far away places in the north to attack the mountains of Israel.

3Then I will knock your bow out of your left hand. I will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand.

4You will fall to the ground on Israel's mountains. You, your soldiers and the people who are with you will all die there. Vultures and wild animals will eat your dead bodies.

5Your bodies will lie in the fields. I, the Almighty Lord, have said that this will happen.

6I will send fires to burn in Magog. They will burn the people who live safely in towns on the coast of the sea. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

7My people, Israel will know that my name is holy. No longer will I let them say bad things about me. And the nations round you will know that I, the Lord am the holy God in Israel.

8I promise that I will cause this to happen. You can be sure that this day will come, says the Lord God. I told you that this day would come.

9Then those who live in Israel's towns will go out. They will pick up the weapons and they will burn them. They will burn the small and large shields, the heavy sticks, the throwing sticks and the sharp pointed sticks (swords). They will use them to make their fires. They will have enough wood for seven years of fires.

10They will not have to go into the fields or forests to find wood. They will take away the things from those who took their things, says the Lord God.