Ezekiel 39
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Ezekiel 39:17-29

17"As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God: Speak to the birds of every sort and to all beasts of the field: 'Assemble and come, gather from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood.

18You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth—of rams, of lambs, and of he-goats, of bulls, all of them fat beasts of Bashan.

19And you shall eat fat till you are filled, and drink blood till you are drunk, at the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you.

20And you shall be filled at my table with horses and charioteers, with mighty men and all kinds of warriors,' declares the Lord God.

21"And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.

22The house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God, from that day forward.

23And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.

24I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their transgressions, and hid my face from them.

25"Therefore thus says the Lord God: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for my holy name.

26They shall forget their shame and all the treachery they have practiced against me, when they dwell securely in their land with none to make them afraid,

27when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies' lands, and through them have vindicated my holiness in the sight of many nations.

28Then they shall know that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore.

29And I will not hide my face anymore from them, when I pour out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord God."

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