You and all your troops, and many peoples with you will go up, advancing like a thunderstorm; you will be like a cloud covering the land.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.
- KJV Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
- NKJV You will ascend, coming like a storm, covering the land like a cloud, you and all your troops and many peoples with you.”
- NASB And you will go up, you will come like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your troops, and many peoples with you.”
- NLT You and all your allies—a vast and awesome army—will roll down on them like a storm and cover the land like a cloud.
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Quick answer
Gog will advance like a storm and a cloud covering the land with his vast hordes. The invasion appears overwhelming and unstoppable.
Overview
The enemy's approach is pictured as a sweeping storm-cloud darkening the land, conveying terrifying might. To human eyes the situation seems hopeless. Yet this very magnitude makes God's coming deliverance all the more glorious, as He overthrows the storm to vindicate His holy name.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Isa 28:2Behold, the Lord has one who is strong and mighty. Like a hailstorm or destructive tempest, like a driving rain or flooding downpour, he will smash that crown to the ground.
- Jer 4:13Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!
- Joel 2:2a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.
- Isa 25:4For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,
- Ezek 38:16You will advance against My people Israel like a cloud covering the land. It will happen in the latter days, O Gog, that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I show Myself holy in you before their eyes.
- Dan 11:40At the time of the end, the king of the South will engage him in battle, but the king of the North will storm out against him with chariots, horsemen, and many ships, invading many countries and sweeping through them like a flood.
- Isa 8:9–10Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered!
- Ezek 13:11tell those whitewashing the wall that it will fall. Rain will come in torrents, I will send hailstones plunging down, and a windstorm will burst forth.
- Isa 21:1–2This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.
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