5. “Persia, Kush, and Put are with them, all of them with shield and helmet,
6. “Gomer and all its bands, the house of Tog̅armah from the far north and all its bands, many peoples with you.
7. “Be ready, prepare yourself, you and all your assemblies that are assembled unto you. And you shall be a guard for them.
8. “After many days you shall be called up. In the latter years you shall come into the land of those brought back from the sword and gathered from many people on the mountains of Yisra’ĕl, which had been a continual waste. But they were brought out of the gentiles, and all of them shall dwell safely.
9. “And you shall go up, coming like a storm, covering the land like a cloud, you and all your bands and many peoples with you.”
10. ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “And it shall be in that day that words arise in your heart, and you shall devise an evil plan:
11. “And you shall say, ‘Let me go up against a land of unwalled villages, let me go to those at rest who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,’
12. to take plunder and to take booty, to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited, and against a people gathered from the gentiles, acquiring livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the land.
13. “Sheḇa, and Deḏan, and the merchants of Tarshish, and all their young lions shall say to you, ‘Have you come to take plunder? Have you gathered your army to take booty, to bear away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’ ” ’
14. “Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and you shall say to Gog̅, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “In that day when My people Yisra’ĕl dwell safely, would you not know?