Ezekiel 37–39

37^aThe hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out ^bin the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of ^cthe valley ^dwhich was full of bones, ²And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open ^||cvalley; and, lo, they were very dry. ³And he said unto me, Son of man, ^ecan these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, ^fthou knowest. ⁴Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. ⁵Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, ^gI will cause ^hbreath to enter into you, and ye shall live: ⁶And I will lay ⁱsinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and ⁱcover you with skin, and put ^hbreath in you, and ye shall live; ^kand ye shall know that I am the Lord. ⁷So I prophesied ^las I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. ⁸And when I beheld, lo, ^imthe sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and ⁱthe skin covered them above: but there was no ^hbreath in them. ⁹Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the ^||wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from ⁿthe four winds, O breath, and ^gbreathe upon these slain, that they may live. ¹⁰So I prophesied ^las he commanded me, and ^hothe breath came into them, and they lived, and ^ostood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. ¹¹Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, ^pOur bones are dried, and ^qour hope is lost: ^rwe are cut off for our parts. ¹²Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, ^dsI will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and ^tbring you into the land of Israel. ^13kAnd ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, ¹⁴And ^oushall put my ^hspirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord ^vhave spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.

¹⁵The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, ¹⁶Moreover, thou son of man, ^wtake thee one stick, and write upon it, For ^xJudah, and for ^xxthe children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For ^xyJoseph, the stick of ^zEphraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions: ¹⁷And ^abjoin them one to another into one stick; and ^bthey shall become one in thine hand. ¹⁸And when ^cthe children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, ^dWilt thou not shew us ^ewhat thou meanest by these? ¹⁹Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take ^fthe stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with ^fthe stick of Judah, and ^bmake them one stick, and ^bthey shall be one in mine hand. ²⁰And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand ^gbefore their eyes. ²¹And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, ^hI will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and ^hiwill gather them on every side, and ^hbring them into their own land: ²²And ^abkI will make them one nation in the land upon ^lthe mountains of Israel; and ^mrone king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all: ²³ⁿNeither shall they ^odefile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor ^owith any of their transgressions: but I ^pwill save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and ^pwill cleanse them: so ^oqshall they be my people, and I will be their God. ²⁴And ^rDavid my servant ^msshall be king over them; and ^arthey all shall have one shepherd: ^tthey shall also walk in my judgments, and ^tobserve my statutes, ^tand do them. ²⁵And ^huthey shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children ^vfor ever: and ^mrmy servant David shall be their prince ^wfor ever. ²⁶Moreover I will make ^xa covenant of peace with them; it shall be ^yan everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and ^zmultiply them, and ^awill set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. ^27bMy tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, ^cI will be their God, and ^cthey shall be my people. ²⁸And ^dthe heathen shall know that ^eI the Lord do sanctify Israel, when ^amy sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.

38And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ^2aSon of man, ^bset thy face against ^acGog, the land of ^cdMagog, ^||athe chief prince of ^eMeshech and ^eTubal, ^aand prophesy against him, ³And say, Thus saith the Lord God; ^aBehold, ^fI am against thee, O ^cGog, ^athe chief prince of ^eMeshech and ^eTubal: ^4gAnd I will turn thee back, and ^hput hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and ⁱall thine army, horses and ⁱhorsemen, all of them ^kclothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with ^lbucklers and ^lshields, all of them handling swords: ^5mPersia, ⁿEthiopia, and ^||mLibya with them; all of them with ^mshield and ^mhelmet: ^6oGomer, and all his ^pbands; the house of ^qTogarmah ^rof ^sthe north quarters, and all his ^pbands: and ^rmany people with thee. ^7tBe thou prepared, and ^uprepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them. ^8vAfter many days ^wthou shalt be visited: ^vin the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is ^xgathered out of many people, against ^ythe mountains of Israel, which ^zhave been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall ^adwell safely all of them. ⁹Thou shalt ascend and come ^blike a ^cstorm, thou shalt be ^dlike a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all ^ethy bands, ^eand many people with thee.

¹⁰Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things ^fcome into thy mind, and thou shalt ^||think an evil thought: ¹¹And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of ^gunwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, ^ahthat dwell ^||safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and ^hhaving neither bars nor gates, ^12†iTo take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon ^jthe desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are ^kgathered out of the nations, which have gotten ^lcattle and goods, that dwell in the ^†midst of the land. ^13mSheba, and ⁿDedan, and ^othe merchants of Tarshish, with all ^pthe young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come ⁱto take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company ⁱto take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away ^lcattle and goods, ⁱto take a great spoil? ¹⁴Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord God; ^qIn that day when my people of Israel ^adwelleth safely, ^rshalt thou not know it? ¹⁵And ^sthou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and ^tmany people with thee, all of them ^uriding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army: ¹⁶And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, ^das a cloud to cover the land; it shall be ^vin the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, ^wwhen I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, ^xbefore their eyes.

¹⁷Thus saith the Lord God; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time ^†by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them? ¹⁸And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord God, that ^ymy fury shall come up in my face. ¹⁹For ^yin my jealousy and in ^zthe fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely ^qin that day there shall be ^aa great shaking in the land of Israel; ²⁰So that ^bcthe fishes of the sea, and ^bcthe fowls of the heaven, and ^bthe beasts of the field, and all ^ccreeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and ^dthe mountains shall be thrown down, and ^ethe ^||steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. ²¹And I will ^fgcall for ^gha sword against him ⁱthroughout all my mountains, saith the Lord God: ^jevery man’s sword shall be against his brother. ²²And ^kI will plead against him with ^lmpestilence and with ^lblood; and ⁿI will rain upon him, and upon his ^obands, and upon ^othe many people that are with him, ^pan overflowing rain, and ^pqgreat hailstones, ⁿfire, and ^nrbrimstone. ²³Thus ^swill I magnify myself, and ^stsanctify myself; and ^stuI will be known in the eyes of many nations, ^vand they shall know that I am the Lord.

39Therefore, ^athou son of man, ^aprophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; ^aBehold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: ^2bAnd I will turn thee back, and ^||cleave but the sixth part of thee, and ^dwill cause thee to come up from ^†the north parts, and will bring thee upon ^ethe mountains of Israel: ³And ^fI will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand. ^4gThou shalt fall upon ^ethe mountains of Israel, thou, and ^hall thy bands, ^hand the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto ⁱthe ravenous birds of every ^†sort, and to ^kthe beasts of the field ^†to be devoured. ⁵Thou shalt fall upon ^†the open field: for ^lI have spoken it, saith the Lord God. ⁶And ^mI will send a fire on ⁿMagog, and among them that ^odwell ^||carelessly in ^pthe isles: ^qand they shall know that I am the Lord. ^7rSo will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not ^slet them pollute my holy name any more: and ^qtthe heathen shall know that I am ^uthe Lord, the Holy One in Israel.

^8vBehold, it is come, and ^vwit is done, saith the Lord God; this is the day ^xwhereof I have spoken. ⁹And they that…