Ezekiel 39 - Legacy Standard Bible

Ezekiel 39

Prophecy About Gog’s Judgment

“Now as for you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief 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 strike your bow from your left hand and cause your arrows from your right hand to fall. 4 You will fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; I will give you as food to every kind of predatory bird and beast of the field. 5 You will fall on the open field; for it is I who have spoken,” declares Lord Yahweh. 6 “And I will send fire upon Magog and those who inhabit the coastlands securely; and they will know that I am Yahweh. 7 “And My holy name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel; and I will not let My holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the Holy 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 go out and make fires 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 plunder 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 Hamon-gog. 12 And for seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land. 13 Even all the people of the land will bury them; and it will be unto their name on the day that I glorify Myself,” declares Lord Yahweh. 14 “Now they will set apart men who will continually pass through the land, burying 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 set up a marker by it until the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-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 kind of bird and to every beast of the field, “Gather and come, assemble from every side to My sacrifice which I am going to sacrifice for you, as a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood. 18 You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan. 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 horses and charioteers, with mighty men and all the men of war,” declares Lord Yahweh. 21 “And I will put My glory 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 know 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 iniquity because they acted unfaithfully against Me, and I hid My face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and all of them fell by the sword. 24 According 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 fortunes of Jacob and have compassion on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name. 26 So they will forget their dishonor and all their unfaithfulness which they perpetrated against Me, when they live securely on their own land with no one to make them tremble. 27 When I return them from the peoples and gather them from the lands of their enemies, then I shall prove Myself holy through 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 poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel,” declares Lord Yahweh.

Hebrews 5

For every high priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of men in things pertaining to God, in order to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins, 2 being able to deal gently with the ignorant and misguided, since he himself also is beset with weakness; 3 and because of it, he is obligated, just as for the people, to also offer sacrifices for sins in the same way for himself. 4 And no one takes this honor to himself, but receives it when he is called by God, even as Aaron was. 5 In this way also Christ did not glorify Himself to become a high priest, but He who said to Him,

“You are My Son,

Today I have begotten You”;

6 just as He says also in another passage,

“You are a priest forever

According to the order of Melchizedek.”

7 He, in the days of His flesh, offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence. 8 Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered. 9 And having been made perfect, He became to all those who obey Him the source of eternal salvation, 10 being designated by God as a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek. 11 Concerning him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern both good and evil.

Proverbs 10

Contrast of the Righteous and the Wicked

The proverbs of Solomon.

A wise son makes a father glad,

But a foolish son is a grief to his mother.

Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit,

But righteousness delivers from death.

Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to hunger,

But He will push away the craving of the wicked.

Poor is he who works with a slack hand,

But the hand of the diligent makes rich.

He who gathers in summer is a son who acts insightfully,

But he who sleeps in harvest is a son who acts shamefully.

Blessings are on the head of the righteous,

But the mouth of the wicked covers up violence.

The remembrance of the righteous is blessed,

But the name of the wicked will rot.

The wise of heart will receive commandments,

But an ignorant fool of loose lips will be ruined.

He who walks in integrity walks securely,

But he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.

He who winks the eye causes pain,

And an ignorant fool of loose lips will be ruined.

The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life,

But the mouth of the wicked covers up violence.

Hatred stirs up strife,

But love covers all transgressions.

On the lips of the one who has understanding, wisdom is found,

But a rod is for the back of him who lacks a heart of wisdom.

Wise men store up knowledge,

But the mouth of the ignorant fool draws ruin near.

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city,

The ruin of the poor is their poverty.

The wages of the righteous is life,

The income of the wicked, punishment.

He is on the path of life who keeps discipline,

But he who forsakes reproof makes himself wander about.

He who covers up hatred has lying lips,

And he who spreads a bad report is a fool.

When there are many words, transgression is unavoidable,

But he who holds back his lips has insight.

The tongue of the righteous is as choice silver,

The heart of the wicked is worth little.

The lips of the righteous feed many,

But ignorant fools die for lack of a heart of wisdom.

It is the blessing of Yahweh that makes rich,

And He adds no pain with it.

Doing wickedness is like laughing to a fool,

And so is wisdom to a man of discernment.

What the wicked dreads will come upon him,

But the desire of the righteous will be granted.

When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more,

But the righteous has an everlasting foundation.

Like vinegar to the teeth and like smoke to the eyes,

So is the sluggard to those who send him.

The fear of Yahweh prolongs life,

But the years of the wicked will be shortened.

The expectation of the righteous is gladness,

But the hope of the wicked will perish.

The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the one with integrity,

But ruin to the workers of iniquity.

The righteous will never be shaken,

But the wicked will not dwell in the land.

The mouth of the righteous bears wisdom,

But the tongue of perversions will be cut out.

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable,

But the mouth of the wicked what is perverse.