Ezekiel 39 - EasyEnglish Bible 2024（EASY）

Chapter 39

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, ruler 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 around 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 bows and arrows, the swords and the spears. 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 rob things from those who robbed them, says the Lord God.

11They will bury Gog in the valley east of the sea. They will bury Gog and all his armies there. So men will not be able to walk through this valley. They will call it the Valley of Hamon Gog (Gog's army).

12Israel's people will need seven months to bury all the dead bodies. Then the land will be clean.

13All the people in the country will bury the dead bodies. They will always remember that day, the day that I won the fight. They will give me glory, says the Lord God.

14They will choose some men to clean the land. They will travel through all the country. Other men will bury the dead bodies that remain on the ground. They will begin to do this at the end of the seven months.

15The men who walk through the country will find dead men's bones. They will put a sign by each one. Then the men who bury the bodies will bury them in the Valley of Hamon Gog.

16(A town called Hamonah is also there.) That is how they will make the land clean.”

17Son of man, this is what the Lord God says: Shout to all kinds of birds and wild animals, “Come here from all the country to eat the meal that I have prepared for you. It is a great sacrifice on Israel's mountains. There you will eat meat and you will drink blood.

18You will eat the meat of great men and you will drink the blood of kings. You will eat them like the fat sheep, cows and animals from Bashan that you eat.

19At this sacrifice, you will eat so much fat that you cannot eat any more. You will drink so much blood that you become drunk.

20I will give you horses and their riders to eat. I will give you great men and many kinds of soldiers to eat,” says the Lord God.

21I will show my glory to all the nations. They will see that I can punish people. And they will know that I decide how and when to punish them.

22From that time and for all the time after that, Israel's people will know that I am the Lord their God.

23And the nations will know that I sent Israel's people away from their country. They will know that I punished my people because of their sin. They had not been faithful to me so I turned away from them. I let their enemies take them and kill them with swords.

24I punished them because they had not kept themselves clean from sin. I hid myself from them because they had done so many evil things.’

God will bring his people back to himself

25So this is what the Lord God says. ‘Now I will bring back Jacob's descendants from the countries where they have been prisoners. I will be kind to all Israel's people. And I will make them see that I am holy.

26They will live safely in their own land. Nobody will cause them to be afraid. In the past, they were not faithful to me. They lived in a way that did not please me. Now they will be ashamed when they remember that time.

27I will bring them back from the lands where their enemies took them. The nations will see what I have done. So all the nations will know that I am holy.

28Then Israel will know that I am the Lord their God. I sent my people away to far countries. But I will bring them all back to their own country. I will not leave any behind.

29No longer will I turn away from them. I will pour my Spirit on Israel's people, says the Lord God.’