Ezekiel 37

CHAPTER 37

Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones

¹The ^ahand of Yahweh was upon me, and He ^bbrought me out ¹by the Spirit of Yahweh and caused me to rest in the middle of the ^cvalley; and it was full of bones.

²He caused me to pass among them all around, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley; and behold, they were very dry.

³He said to me, “Son of man, ^acan these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord Yahweh, ^bYou know.”

⁴Then He said to me, “^aProphesy over these bones and say to them, ‘O dry bones, ^bhear the word of Yahweh.’

⁵“Thus says Lord Yahweh to these bones, ‘Behold, I will cause ^1abreath to enter you that you may come to life.

⁶‘I will put sinews on you, make flesh come up upon you, cover you with skin, and put breath in you that you may come alive; and you will ^aknow that I am Yahweh.’”

⁷So I prophesied ^aas I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a ¹noise, and behold, a rumbling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.

⁸And I looked, and behold, sinews were on them, and flesh came up upon them, and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them.

⁹Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Come from the four ¹winds, O breath, and ^abreathe on these who were killed, that they may ^bcome to life.” ’ ”

¹⁰So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the ^abreath came into them, and they came to life and stood on their feet, an ^bexceedingly great military force.

¹¹Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the ^awhole house of Israel; behold, they say, ‘Our ^bbones are dried up, and our hope has perished. We are ¹completely ^ccut off.’

¹²“Therefore prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will open your graves and ^acause you to come up out of your graves, My people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.

¹³“Then you will know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up out of your graves, My people.

¹⁴“And I will ^aput My ¹Spirit within you, and you will come to life, and I will ²place you on your own land. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken and done it,” declares Yahweh.’”

Israel Will No Longer be Divided

¹⁵The word of Yahweh came again to me saying,

¹⁶“Now as for you, son of man, take for yourself ^aone stick and write on it, ‘For ^bJudah and for the sons of Israel, his companions’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For ^cJoseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.’

¹⁷“Then ^adraw them together for yourself one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.

¹⁸“And when the sons of your people speak to you saying, ‘Will you not declare to us ^awhat you mean by these?’

¹⁹say to them, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand.” ’

²⁰“And the sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.

²¹“And speak to them, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will ^atake the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land;

²²and I will make them ^aone nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and ^bone king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations and no longer be divided into two kingdoms.

²³“They also will ^ano longer defile themselves with their idols or with their detestable things or with any of their transgressions; but ^bI will save them from all their ¹places of habitation in which they have sinned, and I will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God.

Yahweh Cuts a Covenant

²⁴“And My servant ^aDavid will be king over them, and they will all have ^bone shepherd; and they will walk in My judgments and keep My statutes and do them.

²⁵“They will inhabit the land that I gave to Jacob My servant, which your fathers inhabited; and they will inhabit it, they, and their sons and their sons’ sons, forever; and ^aDavid My servant will be their prince forever.

²⁶“And I will cut a ^acovenant of peace with them; it will be an ^beverlasting covenant with them. And I will give them the land and ^cmultiply them and will set My ^dsanctuary in their midst forever.

²⁷“My ^1adwelling place also will be with them; and ^bI will be their God, and they will be My people.

²⁸“And the nations will know that I am Yahweh ^awho sanctifies Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forever.” ’ ”