After many days thou shalt be visited: for in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that hath been destroyed with the sword, and is gathered out of many people upon the mountains of Israel, which have long lain waste: yet [a]they have been brought out of the people, and they shall dwell all safe.

Thou shalt ascend and come up like a tempest, and shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, both thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.

10 Thus saith the Lord God, Even at the same time shall many things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think [b]evil thoughts.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 38:8 Or, it: meaning, the land of Israel.
  2. Ezekiel 38:10 That is, to molest and destroy the Church.

After many days(A) you will be called to arms. In future years you will invade a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations(B) to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and now all of them live in safety.(C) You and all your troops and the many nations with you will go up, advancing like a storm;(D) you will be like a cloud(E) covering the land.(F)

10 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind(G) and you will devise an evil scheme.(H)

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