A   And the worde of þe; Lorde came vnto me, sayinge: Thou sonne of man, turne thy face towarde Gog in the lande of Magog, whyche is the chiefe prince at Mesech and Tubal: ^note prophecy agaynst hym, ∧ saye: Thus sayeth the Lord God: O Gog thou chief prince Mesech ∧ Tuball: beholde, ^note I will vpon the, and wil turne the about, and put a bytte in thy chawes: I will bringe the forth ∧ all thine hoost, both horse and horsem&ebar; whiche be all weapened of the beste fashion: a great people, that h&abar;dle altogether speares, shyldes, and swerdes: the Perses, Moryans and with them the Lybians, whiche all beare shyldes ∧ helmettes: Gomer and al his hoostes: B   the house of Thogorma out of the north quarters, and all his hoostes, yea, ∧ muche people with the.

Therfore prepare the, set thy selfe in araye with all thy people, that are come vnto the by heapes, and be thou their defence. After many dayes thou shalt be visited, and in the latter yeares thou shalt come into the lande, that hath bene destroyed wyth the swearde, ∧ now is replenyshed agayne wyth dyuerse people vp&obar; the mo&ubar;taynes of Israell, which haue longe lyen waste. C   Yee they be brought out of the nacyons, and dwell all safe. Thou shalt come vp like a stormy wether, to couer the l&abar;de, and as it were a darcke cloude: thou wyth all thyne hostes, ∧ a greate multytude of people wyth the.

Moreouer, thus sayeth the Lorde God: At the same tyme shall manye thynges come in to thy mynde, so that thou shalt ymagyn myschefe, ∧ saye: I will vp to yonder playne lande, seing they syt at ease, and dwell so safely (for they dwell all wythout any walles, D   they haue nether barres nor dores) to spoyle them, to robbe th&ebar;, to laye hande vpon their so well inhabyted wyldernesses: agaynst that people, that is gathered together fr&obar; amonge the Heathen, whyche haue gotten catell and good, and dwell in the myddest of the lande. Then shall Saba, and Dedan, and the marcha&ubar;tes of Tharsis wyth all their worthies, saye vnto the: Art thou come to robbe? Hast thou gathered thy people together, because thou wylt spoyle? to take syluer and golde: to carye awaye catell and good: and to haue a greate praye?

E   Therfore, O thou sonne of man, thou shalt prophecye, and saye vnto Gog: Thus sayeth the Lord God: In that daye thou shalt knowe, þt; my people of Israell dwelleth safe: ∧ shalth come from thy place out of the north partes: thou ∧ moch people with the, whych ryde vpon horses, wherof there is a greate multytude ∧ an innumerable sorte. Yee thou shalt come vpon my people of Israell, as a cloude to couer the lande. This shall come to passe in the ^note latter dayes: I will bringe the vp into my lande, þt; the Heath&ebar; maye knowe me, wh&ebar; I get me honoure vpon the. O Gog before their eyes.

Thus sayeth the Lord God: Thou art he, of whom I haue spoken afore tyme, by my seruauntes the prophetes of Israell, F   whyche prophecyed in those dayes and yeares, that I shulde brynge the vpon them. At the same tyme, when Gog commeth vp in to the lande of Israell (sayeth the Lorde God) shall my indygnacyon go forth in my wrath. For in my gelousy and hote dyspleasure I haue deuysed, that there shalbe a greate trouble in the land of Israel at that tyme. The very fishes in the sea, the foules of the ayre, the beastes

Gog and Magog. of the felde, and al the men that are vpon the earth, shall tremble for feare of me.

G   The hilles also shalbe turned vp syde downe, the stayres of stone shall fall, ∧ all walles shall syncke to the grounde. I wyll call for a swearde vp&obar; them in all my mountaynes, sayeth the Lorde God: so that euerye mans swearde shall be vpon another. Wyth pestylence and bloude will I punysh hym: stormy rayne ∧ hayle stones, fyre ∧ brimstone, wyl I cause to rayne vpon him ∧ all his heape yee ∧ vpon al that greate people that is with hym. Thus wyll I be magnifyed, honoured, and knowne amonge the Heathen: that they maye be sure, how that I am the Lorde.

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