V. 1. And thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith GOD the LORD:
V. 2. Behold, I will be upon thee, O Gog, who art a prince of the lords of Meshech and Tubal. Behold, I will direct thee round about, and lure thee, and bring thee out of the ends of midnight, and make thee come upon the mountains of Israel;
V. 3. and will strike your bow out of your left hand, and throw your arrows out of your right hand.
V. 4 On the mountains of Ismel you shall be laid down, you and all your army, and the people who are with you.
V. 5. I will give you to the birds from whence they fly and to the beasts of the field to eat; you shall lie down in the field, for I, God the LORD, have said it.
V. 6 And I will cast fire upon Magog, and upon them that dwell in the isles safely, and they shall know that I am God.
[so in the islands] 1) dwell safely, that is, in Gog's country, daheimen soll's auch brenne" to it.
1) Added by us. In the marginal glosses (St. Louiser Ausg., Vol. VIII, Col. 1794), the keyword to which the gloss refers is "islands.
V. 7 For I will make known my holy name among my people Israel, and will no longer let my holy name be profaned; but the Gentiles shall know that I am GOD, the Holy One in Israel.
V. 8. Behold, it is already come and done, saith GOD the LORD; this is the day of which I have spoken.
V. 9: And the citizens of the cities of Israel shall go out and make fire, and burn the weapons, and the shields, and the spear, and the bow, and the arrows, and the staves, and the staves: and they shall keep fire seven years: they shall not go out into the field for wood, neither shall they cut wood in the forest: but they shall keep fire of the weapons. 2)
V.10. And they shall rob from whom they are robbed, and plunder from whom they are plundered, saith GOD the LORD.
2) The words: "that they are not allowed to... Feuer halten" are omitted in the Jenaer by an oversight, therefore also with Walch, who has reprinted from the Jenaer. Walch, thinking that these words are missing in the original, has now noted them in the margin as a variant of the Bible. But also the Erlangen edition, which has them in the text, brings them again in the margin, because it has reprinted from Walch.
V. 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place to be buried in Israel, even the valley where they go by the sea toward the east: so that they shall go no more thither, because they have buried Gog and his multitude there: and it shall be called the valley of Gog.
Gogs Haufenthal, that there lie buried the great multitude and heaps of Gogs.
V. 12: And the house of Israel shall bury them seven months, that the land may be cleansed.
V. 13. Yea, all the people of the land shall have burial in them, and shall glory in that I have displayed my glory that day, saith GOD the LORD.
V.14. And they shall set apart men that go about the land continually, and with them the graves of the dead, to bury the rest of them in the land, that it may be cleansed; after seven months they shall search.
Research whether they are all buried, or whether someone still lies unburied.
V. 15: And they that go about the land, and see a man's bone, shall set up a mark thereon, until the graves of the dead also bury it in Gog's hovel.
V. 16. This is also the name of the city Hamonah. So they will cleanse the land.
Hamona, quantity or large pile.
V. 17. Now, O son of man, thus says God the Lord: Tell all the birds from whence they fly, and all the beasts of the field, Gather yourselves together, and come, gather yourselves everywhere for my sacrifice, that I may slay you, a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, and eat flesh, and drink blood.
V. 18. You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of heifers, of goats, of oxen, all of which are fat and well fattened.
V. 19 And eat the fat that ye may be filled, and drink the blood that ye may drink.
I will kill you from the sacrifice that I slaughter for you.
V. 20. Fill yourselves now over my table with horses and horsemen, with mighty men and all men of war, says God the Lord.
V. 21. And I will bring my glory among the Gentiles, that all the Gentiles may see my judgment which I have let go, and my hand which I have laid upon them.
V.22. And so the house of Israel shall know that I, the LORD, am their God from that day forward.
V.23. And all the nations also know how the house of Israel was led away because of their iniquity, and that they had sinned against me. Therefore have I forbidden my face before them, and delivered them into the hands of their adversaries, that they should all fall by the sword.
It says that Gog is powerful because of our sin, and has so much happiness and victory.
V. 24. I have done to them as their sin and transgression deserved, and so I have hidden my face from them.
Therefore thus says God the Lord: Now will I restore the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon all the house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name.