Ezekiel 38:14-18

38:14 “Therefore, prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On that day when my people Israel are living securely, you will take notice ¹  38:15 and come from your place, from the remote parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a vast army. 38:16 You will advance ²  against my people Israel like a cloud covering the earth. In the latter days I will bring you against my land so that the nations may acknowledge me, when before their eyes I magnify myself ³  through you, O Gog.

38:17 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days by my servants ⁴  the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days ⁵  that I would bring you against them? 38:18 On that day, when Gog invades ⁶  the land of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord, my rage will mount up in my anger.

[38:14]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text is framed as a rhetorical question: “will you not take notice?”

[38:16]  ² tn Heb “come up.”

[38:16]  ³ tn Or “reveal my holiness.”

[38:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “by the hand of my servants.”

[38:17]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text adds “years” here, but this is probably a scribal gloss on the preceding phrase. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:201.

[38:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “goes up against.”