⁸ After a long time you will be summoned. In the last years you will enter a land that has been restored from war^[a] and regathered from many peoples to the mountains of Israel, which had long been a ruin.^(A) They were brought out from the peoples, and all of them now live securely. ⁹ You, all of your troops, and many peoples with you will advance, coming like a thunderstorm; you will be like a cloud covering the land.

¹⁴ “Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, ‘This is what the Lord God says: On that day when my people Israel are dwelling securely,^(A) will you not know this ¹⁵ and come from your place in the remotest parts of the north^(B)—you and many peoples with you, who are all riding horses—a huge assembly, a powerful army? ¹⁶ You will advance against my people Israel like a cloud covering the land. It will happen in the last days, Gog, that I will bring you against my land so that the nations may know me, when I demonstrate my holiness through you in their sight.^(C)

² I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle.^(A) The city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.