Ezekiel 37

37The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones.H3027H3068H3318H7307H3068H5117H8432H1237H4392H61062He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry.H5674H5439H3966H7227H6440H1237H3966H30023He asked me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" I said, "O Sovereign LORD, you alone know."H559H1121H120H6106H2421H559H136H3069H30454Then he said to me, "Prophesy to these bones and say to them, 'Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!H559H5012H6106H559H3002H6106H8085H1697H30685This is what the Sovereign LORD says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life.H559H136H3069H6106H7307H935H24216I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.'"H5414H1517H5927H1320H7159H5785H5414H7307H2421H3045H30687So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone.H5012H6680H5012H6963H7494H6106H7126H6106H61068I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.H7200H1517H1320H5927H5785H7159H4605H73079Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live.'"H559H5012H7307H5012H1121H120H559H7307H559H136H3069H935H702H7307H7307H5301H2026H242110So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet--a vast army.H5012H6680H7307H935H2421H5975H7272H3966H3966H1419H242811Then he said to me: "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, 'Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.'H559H1121H120H6106H1004H3478H559H6106H3001H8615H6H150412Therefore prophesy and say to them: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: O my people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel.H5012H559H559H136H3069H5971H6605H6913H5927H6913H935H127H347813Then you, my people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.H3045H3068H6605H6913H5971H5927H691314I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the LORD have spoken, and I have done it, declares the LORD.'"H5414H7307H2421H3240H127H3045H3068H1696H6213H5002H306815The word of the LORD came to me:H1697H3068H55916"Son of man, take a stick of wood and write on it, 'Belonging to Judah and the Israelites associated with him.' Then take another stick of wood, and write on it, 'Ephraim's stick, belonging to Joseph and all the house of Israel associated with him.'H1121H120H3947H259H6086H3789H3063H1121H3478H2270H3947H259H6086H3789H3130H6086H669H1004H3478H227017Join them together into one stick so that they will become one in your hand.H7126H259H259H259H6086H259H302718"When your countrymen ask you, 'Won't you tell us what you mean by this?'H1121H5971H559H559H504619say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am going to take the stick of Joseph--which is in Ephraim's hand--and of the Israelite tribes associated with him, and join it to Judah's stick, making them a single stick of wood, and they will become one in my hand.'H1696H559H136H3069H3947H6086H3130H3027H669H7626H3478H2270H5414H6086H3063H6213H259H6086H259H302720Hold before their eyes the sticks you have written onH6086H3789H3027H586921and say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land.H1696H559H136H3069H3947H1121H3478H996H1471H1980H6908H5439H935H12722I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms.H6213H259H1471H776H2022H3478H259H4428H4428H5750H8147H1471H2673H8147H446723They will no longer defile themselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding, and I will cleanse them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.H2930H1544H8251H6588H3467H4186H2398H2891H5971H43024"'My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd. They will follow my laws and be careful to keep my decrees.H1732H5650H4428H259H7462H3212H4941H8104H2708H621325They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children will live there forever, and David my servant will be their prince forever.H3427H776H5414H3290H5650H1H3427H3427H1121H1121H1121H5769H5650H1732H5387H5704H576926I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and increase their numbers, and I will put my sanctuary among them forever.H3772H1285H7965H5769H1285H5414H7235H5414H4720H8432H576927My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.H4908H430H597128Then the nations will know that I the LORD make Israel holy, when my sanctuary is among them forever.'"H1471H3045H3068H6942H3478H4720H8432H5769