1 The word of the LORD came to me:
2 "Son of man, turn your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him.
3 Say, Thus says the Lord GOD: I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.
4 I will turn you about, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army, horses and horsemen, every one splendidly equipped, a huge throng with buckler and shield, all of them gripping swords;
5 Persia, Cush and Put along with them, all with shield and helmet;
6 Gomer with all its hordes, Beth-togarmah from the remotest north with all its hordes, many peoples with you.
7 "Get ready, be fully prepared, you and all the throng gathered around you, and be their commander.
8 After many days you will be called to duty. In the final years you will come against a land brought back from the sword, whose people have been gathered out of many peoples onto the mountains of Israel, which had long lain in ruins. They were brought out from the peoples, and now all of them live in safety.
9 You will advance, coming on like a storm; like a cloud you will cover the land, you and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.
10 "Thus says the Lord GOD: On that day ideas will rise in your mind, and you will hatch an evil plan.
11 You will say, 'I will go up against a land of open villages; I will fall on a peaceful people living in safety, all of them living without walls, without bars or gates,'
12 to take plunder and seize spoil, to turn your hand against ruins now resettled and against a people gathered from the nations, who have gained cattle and goods and live at the navel of the earth.
13 Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its young lions will ask you, 'Is it to take plunder that you have come? Is it to seize spoil that you have gathered your throng, to carry off silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take great plunder?'
14 "So prophesy, Son of man, and tell Gog, Thus says the Lord GOD: On that day, when my people Israel are living in safety, will you not take note of it?
15 You will come from your place in the remotest north, you and many peoples with you, all of them mounted on horses, a huge throng and a mighty army.
16 You will come up against my people Israel like a cloud covering the land. In the final days I will bring you against my land, so that the nations may know me when I show myself holy through you, Gog, before their eyes.
17 "Thus says the Lord GOD: Are you the one I spoke of in former days through my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days, for years, that I would bring you against them?
18 On that day, the day Gog comes against the land of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, my fury will rise up in my nostrils.
19 In my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare: on that day there will be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.
20 The fish of the sea and the birds of the sky, the animals of the field and every creeping thing that creeps on the ground, and every human being on the face of the earth will quake before me. The mountains will be thrown down, the steep places will collapse, and every wall will fall to the ground.
21 I will summon a sword against him throughout all my mountains, declares the Lord GOD; each man's sword will be turned against his brother.
22 I will enter into judgment with him by pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down on him and his hordes and the many peoples with him a flooding downpour, hailstones, fire and sulfur.
23 So I will show myself great and holy and make myself known before the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD."