Ezekiel 38:7-12

7-12. Let the enemy of Israel thoroughly prepare himself (Ezekiel 38:7) for “at the end of the years” (Isaiah 2:2; Daniel 10:14) his sins shall be remembered (compare Ezekiel 23:21), and he shall be “visited” (Ezekiel 38:8), or “commissioned.” (Compare Ezekiel 38:16.) He shall have thoughts of an easy victory over an unprotected and peaceful country (Ezekiel 38:10-11), and shall come like a storm-cloud against Israel (Ezekiel 38:9; compare Isaiah 21:1; Isaiah 28:2, and Iliad, 6:275), a land which, in the new conditions of the new Israel, shall be “brought back” (Ezekiel 38:8, A.V.) or “restored” (R.V., margin) from the sword (compare Ezekiel 5:17; Ezekiel 6:3; Ezekiel 6:13; Ezekiel 36:13; with Ezekiel 34:28; Ezekiel 37:26; Ezekiel 39:26), and whose mountains, which in the past had been “a continual waste” (Ezekiel 38:8, R.V., Ezekiel 35:9) shall now be covered with cattle (Ezekiel 38:12). But his plans shall fail.