Ezekiel 37

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.