Ezekiel 38:17

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Ezekiel 38:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible

15 And you will come from your place out of the far north—you and many peoples with you, all riding horses—a mighty horde, a huge army.

16 You will advance against My people Israel like a cloud covering the land. It will happen in the latter days, O Gog, that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I show Myself holy in you before their eyes.

17 This is what the Lord GOD says: Are you the one of whom I have spoken in former days through My servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those times prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?

18 Now on that day when Gog comes against the land of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, My wrath will flare up.

19 In My zeal and fiery rage I proclaim that on that day there will be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.

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Ezekiel 38:10

This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

Ezekiel 38:11

You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will come against a tranquil people who dwell securely, all of them living without walls or bars or gates—

Ezekiel 38:16

You will advance against My people Israel like a cloud covering the land. It will happen in the latter days, O Gog, that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I show Myself holy in you before their eyes.

Psalms 110:5

The Lord is at Your right hand; He will crush kings in the day of His wrath.

Psalms 110:6

He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead; He will crush the leaders far and wide.

Isaiah 27:1

In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent —Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.

Isaiah 34:1

Come near, O nations, to listen; pay attention, O peoples. Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that springs from it.

Isaiah 34:2

The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter.

Isaiah 34:3

Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.

Isaiah 34:4

All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.

Isaiah 34:5

When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.

Isaiah 34:6

The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat— with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

Isaiah 63:1

Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.”

Isaiah 63:2

Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress?

Isaiah 63:3

“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.

Isaiah 63:4

For the day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redemption had come.

Isaiah 63:5

I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled that no one assisted. So My arm brought Me salvation, and My own wrath upheld Me.

Isaiah 63:6

I trampled the nations in My anger; in My wrath I made them drunk and poured out their blood on the ground.”

Isaiah 66:15

For behold, the LORD will come with fire— His chariots are like a whirlwind— to execute His anger with fury and His rebuke with flames of fire.

Isaiah 66:16

For by fire and by His sword, the LORD will execute judgment on all flesh, and many will be slain by the LORD.

Daniel 11:40

At the time of the end, the king of the South will engage him in battle, but the king of the North will storm out against him with chariots, horsemen, and many ships, invading many countries and sweeping through them like a flood.

Daniel 11:41

He will also invade the Beautiful Land, and many countries will fall. But these will be delivered from his hand: Edom, Moab, and the leaders of the Ammonites.

Daniel 11:42

He will extend his power over many countries, and not even the land of Egypt will escape.

Daniel 11:43

He will gain control of the treasures of gold and silver and over all the riches of Egypt, and the Libyans and Cushites will also submit to him.

Daniel 11:44

But news from the east and the north will alarm him, and he will go out with great fury to destroy many and devote them to destruction.

Daniel 11:45

He will pitch his royal tents between the sea and the beautiful holy mountain, but he will meet his end with no one to help him.

Joel 3:9

Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war; rouse the mighty men; let all the men of war advance and attack!

Joel 3:10

Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’

Joel 3:11

Come quickly, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves. Bring down Your mighty ones, O LORD.

Joel 3:12

Let the nations be roused and advance to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit down to judge all the nations on every side.

Joel 3:13

Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because their wickedness is great.

Joel 3:14

Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

Zechariah 12:2

“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples. Judah will be besieged, as well as Jerusalem.

Zechariah 12:3

On that day, when all the nations of the earth gather against her, I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who would heave it away will be severely injured.

Zechariah 12:4

On that day, declares the LORD, I will strike every horse with panic, and every rider with madness. I will keep a watchful eye on the house of Judah, but I will strike with blindness all the horses of the nations.

Zechariah 12:5

Then the leaders of Judah will say in their hearts: ‘The people of Jerusalem are my strength, for the LORD of Hosts is their God.’

Zechariah 12:6

On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among the sheaves; they will consume all the peoples around them on the right and on the left, while the people of Jerusalem remain secure there.

Zechariah 12:7

The LORD will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and of the people of Jerusalem may not be greater than that of Judah.

Zechariah 12:8

On that day the LORD will defend the people of Jerusalem, so that the weakest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD going before them.

Zechariah 14:1

Behold, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.

Zechariah 14:2

For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.

Zechariah 14:3

Then the LORD will go out to fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle.

Zechariah 14:4

On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half the mountain moving to the north and half to the south.

Zechariah 14:5

You will flee by My mountain valley, for it will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with Him.

Zechariah 14:6

On that day there will be no light, no cold or frost.

Zechariah 14:7

It will be a day known only to the LORD, without day or night; but when evening comes, there will be light.

Zechariah 14:8

And on that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it toward the Eastern Sea and the other half toward the Western Sea, in summer and winter alike.

Zechariah 14:9

On that day the LORD will become King over all the earth—the LORD alone, and His name alone.

Zechariah 14:10

All the land from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem will be turned into a plain, but Jerusalem will be raised up and will remain in her place, from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses.

Zechariah 14:11

People will live there, and never again will there be an utter destruction. So Jerusalem will dwell securely.

Zechariah 14:12

And this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

Zechariah 14:13

On that day a great panic from the LORD will come upon them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of one will rise against the other.

Zechariah 14:14

Judah will also fight at Jerusalem, and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be collected—gold, silver, and apparel in great abundance.

Zechariah 14:15

And a similar plague will strike the horses and mules, camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps.

Zechariah 14:16

Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

Zechariah 14:17

And should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, then the rain will not fall on them.

Zechariah 14:18

And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter in, then the rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

Zechariah 14:19

This will be the punishment of Egypt and of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

Zechariah 14:20

On that day, HOLY TO THE LORD will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the house of the LORD will be like the sprinkling bowls before the altar.

Zechariah 14:21

Indeed, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the LORD of Hosts, and all who sacrifice will come and take some pots and cook in them. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of Hosts.