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And my holy name[a] I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let the name of my holiness be profaned anymore, and the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the holy one in Israel. Look! it is coming, and it will happen,” declares[b] the Lord Yahweh. “It is the day about which I have spoken.[c]

“ʻ“And the inhabitants of the towns[d] of Israel will go out, and they will set ablaze, and they will kindle a fire with a weapon[e] and a small shield and a shield,[f] with a bow and with arrows, and with hand clubs[g] and with spears,[h] and so they will light a fire with them, a fire lasting seven years.[i]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 39:7 Literally “the name of my holiness”
  2. Ezekiel 39:8 Literally “declaration of”
  3. Ezekiel 39:8 Literally “which I have spoken of
  4. Ezekiel 39:9 Or “cities”
  5. Ezekiel 39:9 Or “weapons”
  6. Ezekiel 39:9 Or “shields and bucklers”; cf. NJPS
  7. Ezekiel 39:9 Literally “with club of hand”
  8. Ezekiel 39:9 Hebrew “spear”
  9. Ezekiel 39:9 Literally “a fire of seven years”