Isa 34:2-8, 63:1-7, Eze 38:8-23, 39:8-20, Joe 3:2, Rev 16:14-16, 19:19-21 | ESV | STEP | For the Lord is enraged against all the nations , and furious against all their host ; he has devoted them to destruction , has given them over for slaughter .

2 For the Lord is enraged against all the nations,
and furious against all their host;
he has ^adevoted them to destruction, ^{▼▼That is, set apart ( devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); also verse 5} has given them over for slaughter.
3 Their slain shall be cast out,
and ^cthe stench of their corpses shall rise;
^dthe mountains shall flow with their blood.
4 ^eAll the host of heaven shall rot away,
and the skies roll up like a scroll.
All their host shall fall,
as leaves fall from the vine,
like leaves falling from the fig tree.
5 For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;
behold, it descends for judgment upon ^fEdom,
upon the people ^gI have devoted to destruction.
6 The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood;
it is gorged with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
^hFor the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 ⁱWild oxen shall ^jfall with them,
and ^kyoung steers with ^lthe mighty bulls.
Their land shall drink its fill of blood,
and their soil shall be gorged with fat.
8 ^mFor the Lord has a day of vengeance,
a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

Isaiah 63:1-7

The Lord’s Day of Vengeance

1 Who is this who comes from ⁿEdom,
in crimsoned garments from ^oBozrah,
he who is splendid in his apparel,
^pmarching in the greatness of his strength?
“It is I, speaking in righteousness,
mighty to save.”
2 Why is your ^qapparel red,
and your garments like his ^rwho treads in the winepress?
3 ^s“I have trodden the winepress alone,
^tand from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
and trampled them in my wrath;
their lifeblood ^{▼▼Or their juice; also verse 6} spattered on my garments,
and stained all my apparel.
4 ^vFor the day of vengeance was in my heart,
and my year of redemption ^{▼▼Or the year of my redeemed} had come.
5 I looked, but ^xthere was no one to help;
I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold;
so my own arm brought me salvation,
and my wrath upheld me.
6 I trampled down the peoples in my anger;
^yI made them drunk in my wrath,
and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”

The Lord’s Mercy Remembered

7 I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord,
the praises of the Lord,
according to all that the Lord has granted us,
^zand the great goodness to the house of Israel
that he has granted them according to his compassion,
according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

Ezekiel 38:8-23

8 ^aaAfter many days you will be mustered. ^abIn the latter years you will go against ^acthe land that is restored from war, the land whose people ^adwere gathered from many peoples upon ^aethe mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste. Its people were brought out from the peoples and ^afnow dwell securely, all of them. 9 You will advance, coming on ^aglike a storm. You will be ^ahlike a cloud covering the land, you and all your ^aihordes, and many peoples with you.

10 “Thus says the Lord God: On that day, ^ajthoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme 11 and say, ‘I will go up against ^akthe land of unwalled villages. I will fall upon ^althe quiet people who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having no bars or gates,’ 12 to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against ^amthe waste places that are now inhabited, and ^anthe people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, ^aowho dwell at the center of the earth. 13 ^apSheba and ^aqDedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all ^arits leaders ^{▼▼Hebrew young lions} will say to you, ‘Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hosts to carry off plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to seize great spoil?’

14 “Therefore, ^atson of man, prophesy, and say to ^auGog, Thus says the Lord God: On that day when my people Israel are ^avdwelling securely, ^awwill you not know it? 15 You will come from your place out of ^axthe uttermost parts of the north, you and ^aymany peoples with you, ^azall of them riding on horses, a great host, a mighty army. 16 You will come up against my people Israel, ^balike a cloud covering the land. ^bbIn the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, ^bcI vindicate my holiness before their eyes.

17 “Thus says the Lord God: Are you ^bdhe of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who in those days prophesied for years that I would bring you against them? 18 But on that day, the day that Gog shall come against the land of Israel, declares the Lord God, ^bemy wrath will be roused in my anger. 19 For ^bfin my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare, On that day ^bgthere shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. 20 ^bhThe fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep on the ground, and all the people who are on the face of the earth, ^bishall quake at my presence. And ^bjthe mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground. 21 ^bkI will summon a sword against Gog ^{▼▼Hebrew against him} on all my mountains, declares the Lord God. ^bmEvery man’s sword will be against his brother. 22 With pestilence and bloodshed ^bnI will enter into judgment with him, and ^boI will rain upon him and ^bphis hordes and the many peoples who are with him ^bqtorrential rains and hailstones, ^brfire and sulfur. 23 So I will show my greatness and my ^bsholiness and ^btmake myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then ^buthey will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 39:8-20

8 ^bvBehold, it is coming and it will be brought about, declares the Lord God. That is the day ^bwof which I have spoken.

9 “Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and ^bxmake fires of the weapons and burn them, shields and bucklers, bow and arrows, ^byclubs ^{▼▼Or javelins} and spears; and they will make fires of them for seven years, 10 so that they will not need to take wood out of the field or cut down any out of the forests, for ^cathey will make their fires of the weapons. ^cbThey will seize the spoil of those who despoiled them, and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord God.

11 “On that day I will give to ^ccGog a place for burial in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers, east of the sea. It will block the travelers, for there Gog and all his multitude will be buried. It will be called the Valley of ^cdHamon-gog. ^{▼▼ Hamon-gog means the multitude of Gog} 12 For ^cfseven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order ^cgto cleanse the land. 13 All the people of the land will bury them, and it will bring them renown on the day that ^chI show my glory, declares the Lord God. 14 They will set apart men to travel through the land regularly and bury those travelers remaining on the face of the land, so as ^cito cleanse it. At ^{▼▼Or Until} the end of ^ckseven months they will make their search. 15 And when these travel through the land and anyone sees a human bone, then he shall set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of ^clHamon-gog. 16 (Hamonah ^{▼▼ Hamonah means multitude} is also the name of the city.) Thus shall they cleanse the land.

17 “As for you, ^cnson of man, thus says the Lord God: ^coSpeak to ^cpthe birds of every sort and to ^cqall beasts of the field: ‘Assemble and come, gather from all around to ^crthe sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood. 18 ^csYou shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth—of rams, of lambs, and of he-goats, of bulls, all of them ^ctfat beasts of Bashan. 19 And you shall eat fat till you are filled, and drink blood till you are drunk, at the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you. 20 And you shall be filled at my table with horses and charioteers, with mighty men and all kinds of warriors,’ declares the Lord God.

Joel 3:2

2 ^cuI will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And ^cvI will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,

Revelation of John 16:14-16

14 For they are ^cwdemonic spirits, ^cxperforming signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, ^cyto assemble them for battle on ^czthe great day of God the Almighty. 15 (“Behold, ^daI am coming like a thief! ^dbBlessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, ^dcthat he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!”) 16 And ^ddthey assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called ^deArmageddon.

Revelation of John 19:19-21

19 And I saw ^dfthe beast and the kings of the earth with their armies ^dggathered to make war against him who was sitting on the horse and against his army. 20 And the beast was captured, and with it ^dhthe false prophet ^diwho in its presence ^{▼▼Or on its behalf} had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who ^dkworshiped its image. These two were ^dlthrown alive into the lake of ^dmfire that burns with sulfur. 21 And the rest were slain by the sword ^dnthat came from the mouth of him who was sitting on the horse, and ^doall the birds were gorged with their flesh.