Ezekiel 38:1-39:29, Daniel 2:34, Daniel 2:35, Daniel 2:44, Daniel 11:44, Daniel 11:45, Daniel 12:1, Joel 3:9-17, Zechariah 12:1-14:21 - LSB - Legacy Standard Bible

Ezekiel 38:1-39:29

Prophecy Against Gog

And the word of Yahweh came to me saying, 2 “Son of man, set your face toward ^aGog of the land of ^bMagog, the ¹^cchief prince of ^dMeshech and ^dTubal, and prophesy against him 3 and say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, ¹chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. 4 I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will ^abring you out, and all your military force, ^bhorses and horsemen, all of them ¹magnificently dressed, a great assembly with large shield and shield, all of them ²wielding swords; 5 ^aPersia, ¹^bEthiopia, and ^cPut with them, all of them with shield and helmet; 6 ^aGomer with all its troops; ^bBeth-togarmah from the remote parts of the north with all its troops—many peoples with you.
7 “^aBe prepared, and prepare yourself, you and all your assembly that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them. 8 ^aAfter many days you will be mustered; in the last years you will come into the land that is ¹restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been ^bgathered from many peoples to the ^cmountains of Israel which had been a continual waste; but ²its people were brought out from the peoples, and they are ^dliving securely, all of them. 9 And you will go up; you will come ^alike a storm; you will be like a ^bcloud covering the land, you and all your troops and many peoples with you.”
10 ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “It will be in that day, that ¹thoughts will come into your heart, and you will ^adevise an evil plan, 11 and you will say, ‘I will go up against the land of ¹^aunwalled villages. I will go against those who ^bdwell quietly, that live securely, all of them living without walls and having no bars or gates, 12 to ^acapture spoil and to seize plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places, which are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered from the nations, who have acquired cattle and property, who live at the ¹center of the world.’ 13 ^aSheba and ^bDedan and the merchants of ^cTarshish with all its ¹young lions will say to you, ‘Have you come to capture spoil? Have you assembled your assembly to seize plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to capture great ^dspoil?’”’
14 “Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “On that day when My people Israel are ^aliving securely, will you not know it? 15 ^aYou will come from your place out of the remote parts of the north, you and numerous peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great assembly and a numerous military force; 16 and you will come up against My people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. It will be in the last days that I will bring you against My land so that the nations may ^aknow Me when I ^bprove Myself holy through you before their eyes, O Gog.”
17 ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days by the hand of My slaves the prophets of Israel, who ^aprophesied in those days for many years that I would bring you against them? 18 And it will be in that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” declares Lord Yahweh, “that My wrath will mount up in My ^aanger. 19 In My ^azeal and in My blazing fury I have spoken that on that day there will surely be a great ¹^bearthquake in the land of Israel. 20 ^aAnd the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the beasts of the field, all the creeping things that creep on the ground, and all the men who are on the face of the earth will quake at My presence; the ^bmountains also will be pulled down, the steep pathways will fall, and every wall will fall to the earth. 21 And I will call for a ^asword against ¹him on all My mountains,” declares Lord Yahweh. “^bEvery man’s sword will be against his brother. 22 With pestilence and with blood I will enter into ^ajudgment with him; and I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the numerous peoples who are with him, ¹a torrential rain, with ^bhailstones, fire, and brimstone. 23 And I will magnify Myself, I will manifest Myself as holy, and I will ^amake Myself known in the sight of many nations; and they will know that I am Yahweh.”’

Prophecy About Gog’s Judgment

“Now as for ^ayou, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, ¹chief prince of Meshech and Tubal; 2 and I will turn you around, drive you on, take you up from the remotest parts of the north, and bring you against the mountains of Israel. 3 And I will ^astrike your bow from your left hand and cause your arrows from your right hand to fall. 4 You will ^afall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; I will give you as ^bfood to every ¹kind of predatory bird and beast of the field. 5 You will fall on the ¹open field; for it is I who have spoken,” declares Lord Yahweh. 6 “And I will send ^afire upon Magog and those who inhabit the ^bcoastlands securely; and they will know that I am Yahweh.
7 “And My ^aholy name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel; and I will not let My holy name be ^bprofaned anymore. And the ^cnations will know that I am Yahweh, the ^dHoly One in Israel. 8 Behold, it is coming, and it shall be done,” declares Lord Yahweh. “That is the day of which I have spoken.
9 “Then those who inhabit the cities of Israel will ^ago out and make ^bfires with the weapons and burn them, both shields and large shields, bows and arrows, war clubs and spears; and for seven years they will make fires of them. 10 They will not carry wood from the field or gather firewood from the forests, for they will make fires with the weapons; and they will take the spoil of those who made them into spoil and seize the ^aplunder of those who plundered them,” declares Lord Yahweh.
11 “And it will be in that day, that I will give Gog a burial ground there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea, and it will block off those who would pass by. So they will bury Gog there with all his multitude, and they will call it the valley of ¹Hamon-gog. 12 And for seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to ^acleanse the land. 13 Even all the people of the land will bury them; and it will be ¹unto their ^aname on the day that I ^bglorify Myself,” declares Lord Yahweh. 14 “Now they will set apart men who will continually pass through the land, ^aburying those who were passing through, even those left on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search. 15 And those who pass through the land will pass through, and when anyone sees a man’s bone, he will ¹set up a marker by it until the buriers have buried it in the valley of ²Hamon-gog. 16 And even the name of the city will be Hamonah. So they will cleanse the land.”’
17 “Now as for you, son of man, thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Say to every ¹kind of ^abird and to every ^abeast of the field, “Gather and come, assemble from every side to My sacrifice which I am going to ^bsacrifice for you, as a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood. 18 You will ^aeat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, as though they were ^brams, lambs, goats, and ^cbulls, all of them fatlings of ^dBashan. 19 So you will eat fat until you are satisfied and drink blood until you are drunk, from My sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. 20 And you will be satisfied at My table with ^ahorses and charioteers, with mighty men and all the men of war,” declares Lord Yahweh.
21 “And I will put My ^aglory among the nations; and all the nations will see My judgment which I have executed and My hand which I have placed on them. 22 And the house of Israel will ^aknow that I am Yahweh their God from that day onward. 23 And the nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their ^ainiquity because they acted unfaithfully against Me, and I ^bhid My face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and all of them fell by the sword. 24 ^aAccording to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I dealt with them, and I hid My face from them.”’”

Israel Will Live in Security

25 Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, “Now I will return the ¹^afortunes of Jacob and have compassion on the whole ^bhouse of Israel; and I will be ^cjealous for My holy name. 26 So they will ¹^aforget their dishonor and all their unfaithfulness which they ²perpetrated against Me, when they ^blive securely on their own land with ^cno one to make them tremble. 27 When I ^areturn them from the peoples and gather them from the lands of their enemies, then I shall ^bprove Myself holy ¹through them in the sight of the many nations. 28 Then they will know that I am Yahweh their God because I made them go into exile among the nations, and then collected them again to their own land; and I will leave none of them there any longer. 29 And I will not hide My face from them any longer, for I will have ^apoured out My Spirit on the house of Israel,” declares Lord Yahweh.

Daniel 2:35

35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed ¹all at the same time and became ^alike chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that ^bnot a trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the image became a great ^cmountain and filled the whole earth.

Daniel 12:1

The End of the Days

“Now at that time, ^aMichael, the great prince who stands guard over the sons of your people, will stand. And there will be a ^btime of distress ^csuch as never happened since there was a nation until that time; and at that time your people, everyone who is found written in the ^dbook, will be rescued.

Joel 3:9-17

^aCall out this message among the nations:

^bSet yourselves apart for a war; ^crouse the mighty men!

Let all the men of war approach, let them come up!

^aBeat your plowshares into swords

And your pruning hooks into spears;

^bLet the weak say, “I am a mighty man.”

¹^aHasten and come, all you surrounding nations,

And gather yourselves.

There, bring down, O Yahweh, Your ^bmighty ones.

Let the nations be roused up

And come up to the ^avalley of ¹Jehoshaphat,

For there I will sit to ^bjudge

All the surrounding nations.

^aSend in the sickle, for the ^bharvest is ripe.

Come, ¹^ctread, for the ^dwine press is full;

The vats overflow, for their ^eevil is great.

^aMultitudes, multitudes in the ^bvalley of ¹decision!

For the ^cday of Yahweh is near in the valley of ¹decision.

The ^asun and moon grow dark,

And the stars lose their brightness.

And Yahweh ^aroars from Zion

And ^bgives forth His voice from Jerusalem,

And the ^cheavens and the earth quake.

But Yahweh is a ^drefuge for His people

And a ^estrong defense to the sons of Israel.

Then you will ^aknow that I am Yahweh your God,

Dwelling in Zion, My ^bholy mountain.

So Jerusalem will be ^choly,

And ^dstrangers will pass through it no more.

Zechariah 12:1-14:21

Yahweh Will Save

The oracle of the word of Yahweh concerning Israel.
Thus declares Yahweh who ^astretches out the heavens, ^blays the foundation of the earth, and ^cforms the spirit of man within him, 2 “Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a ^acup ¹that causes reeling to all the peoples all around. Now the one in siege against Jerusalem will also be against ^bJudah. 3 But it will be in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a heavy ^astone for all the peoples; all who heave it up will be ^bseverely ¹injured. And all the ^cnations of the earth will be gathered against it. 4 In that day,” declares Yahweh, “I will strike every horse with bewilderment and his rider with madness. But I will open my eyes to watch over the house of Judah, while I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. 5 Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘¹A strong support for us are the inhabitants of Jerusalem through Yahweh of hosts, their God.’
6 “In that day I will make the clans of Judah like a ^afiery laver among pieces of wood and a fiery torch among sheaves, so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples, while Jerusalem will again be ^binhabited in its own place—in Jerusalem. 7 Yahweh also will ^asave the tents of Judah first so that the glory of the house of ^bDavid and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah. 8 In that day Yahweh will ^adefend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the one who ^bstumbles among them in that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like ^cGod, like the ^dangel of Yahweh before them. 9 And it will be in that day, that I will ^aseek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

Mourning for the Pierced One

10 “And I will ^apour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem ¹the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have ^bpierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one ^cmourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn. 11 In that day there will be great ^amourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the ¹plain of ²Megiddo. 12 And the land will mourn, each family alone; the family of the house of David alone and their wives alone; the family of the house of Nathan alone and their wives alone; 13 the family of the house of Levi alone and their wives alone; the family of the Shimeites alone and their wives alone; 14 all the families that remain, each family alone and their wives alone.

Jerusalem Refined and Tested

“In that day a ^afountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for ^bsin and for ^cimpurity.
2 “And it will be in that day,” declares Yahweh of hosts, “that I will ^acut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also cause the ^bprophets and the ^cunclean spirit to pass away from the land. 3 And it will be that if anyone still ^aprophesies, then his father and mother who gave birth to him will say to him, ‘You shall ^bnot live, for you have spoken ^cfalsely in the name of Yahweh’; and his ^dfather and mother who gave birth to him will pierce him through when he prophesies. 4 And it will be in that day, that the prophets will each be ^aashamed of his vision when he prophesies, and they will not put on a ^bhairy mantle in order to deceive; 5 but he will say, ‘I am ^anot a prophet; I am a cultivator of the ground, for a man ¹sold me as a slave in my youth.’ 6 And one will say to him, ‘What are these wounds struck here ^abetween your ¹arms?’ Then he will say, ‘Those with which I was struck in the house of ²my friends.’
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“Awake, O ^asword, against My ^bShepherd

And against the man, My ^cAssociate,”

Declares Yahweh of hosts.

“^dStrike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered;

And I will ^eturn My hand ¹against the little ones.

And it will be in all the land,”

Declares Yahweh,

“That ^atwo parts in it will be cut off and breathe their last;

But the third will be left in it.

And I will bring the third part through the ^afire

And refine them as silver is refined

And test them as gold is tested.

¹They will ^bcall on My name,

And I will ^canswer them;

I will say, ‘They are ^dMy people,’

And they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’”

Yahweh Will Battle the Nations

Behold, a ^aday is coming for Yahweh when ^bthe spoil taken from you will be divided among you. 2 Indeed, I will ^agather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, the ^bhouses plundered, the women ravished, and half of the city will go forth in exile, but those left of the people will not be cut off from the city. 3 Then Yahweh will go forth and ^afight against those nations, as the day when He fights on a day of battle. 4 And in that day His feet will ^astand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be ^bsplit in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south. 5 And you will flee by the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel; indeed, you will flee just as you fled before the ^aearthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. ^bThen Yahweh, my God, will come, and all the holy ones with ¹Him!
6 And it will be in that day, that there will be ^ano light; the ¹luminaries will dwindle. 7 And it will be ^aa ¹unique day which is ^bknown to Yahweh, neither day nor night, but it will be that at ^cevening time there will be light.
8 And it will be in that day, ^athat living waters will flow out of Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea; it will be in summer as well as in winter.

Yahweh Will Be King over All

9 And Yahweh will be ^aking over all the earth; in that day Yahweh will be the only ^bone, and His name one.
10 All the land will be changed into a plain from ^aGeba to ^bRimmon south of Jerusalem; but ¹Jerusalem will ^crise and ^dinhabit its site from ^eBenjamin’s Gate as far as the place of the First Gate to the ^fCorner Gate, and from the ^gTower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses. 11 And ¹people will inhabit it, and there will ^ano longer be anything devoted to destruction, for Jerusalem will ^bbe inhabited in security.
12 Now this will be the plague with which Yahweh will plague all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will ^arot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth. 13 And it will be in that day, that abundant confusion from Yahweh will ¹fall on them; and they will ^atake hold of one another’s hand, and the hand of one will ²go up against the hand of another. 14 ^aAnd Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the ^bwealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered, gold and silver and garments in great abundance. 15 And in the same way, ^athe plague on the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey, and all the cattle that will be in those camps will be like this plague.
16 Then it will be that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will ^ago up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of hosts, and to celebrate the ^bFeast of Booths. 17 And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the ^aKing, Yahweh of hosts, there will be ^bno rain on them. 18 And if the family of Egypt does not go up or enter, then no rain will fall on them; it will be the ^aplague with which Yahweh plagues the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths. 19 This will be the ¹punishment of Egypt, and the ¹punishment of all the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.
20 In that day there will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “^aHoly to Yahweh.” And the ^bpots in the house of Yahweh will be like the bowls before the altar. 21 And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be ^aholy to Yahweh of hosts; and all who sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in them. And there will no longer be a ¹^bCanaanite in the house of Yahweh of hosts in that day.