Ezekiel 37–39

Chapter 37

Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones

¹The ^ahand of the Lord was upon me, and He ^bbrought me out ¹by the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the ^cvalley; and it was full of bones.

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

³He said to me, “Son of man, ^acan these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord ¹God, ^bYou know.”

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

⁵“Thus says the Lord God 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 grow back on you, cover you with skin and put breath in you that you may come alive; and you will ^aknow that I am the Lord.’ ”

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

⁸And I looked, and behold, sinews were on them, and flesh grew 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 the Lord God, “Come from the four winds, O breath, and ^abreathe on these slain, that they ^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 army.

The Vision Explained

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 the Lord God, “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 the Lord, when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up out of your graves, My people.

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

Reunion of Judah and Israel

¹⁵The word of the Lord came again to me saying,

¹⁶“And 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 ^ajoin them for yourself one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.

¹⁸“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 the Lord God, “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“The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.

²¹“Say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “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 will ^ano longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but ^bI will deliver them from all their ¹dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God.

The Davidic Kingdom

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

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

²⁶“I will make a ^acovenant of peace with them; it will be an ^beverlasting covenant with them. And I will ¹place them and ^cmultiply them, and will set My ^dsanctuary in their midst forever.

²⁷“My ^adwelling 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 the Lord ^awho sanctifies Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forever.” ’ ”

Chapter 38

Prophecy about Gog and Future Invasion of Israel

¹And the word of the Lord came to me saying,

²“Son of man, set your face toward ^aGog of the land of ^bMagog, the ¹prince of ^cRosh, ^dMeshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him

³and say, ‘Thus says the Lord ¹God, “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, ²prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal.

⁴“I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will ^abring you out, and all your army, ^bhorses and horsemen, all of them ¹splendidly attired, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them wielding swords;

^5aPersia, ^1bEthiopia and ^cPut with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

^6aGomer with all its troops; ^bBeth-togarmah from the remote parts of the north with all its troops—many peoples with you.

⁷“^aBe prepared, and prepare yourself, you and all your companies that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them.

⁸“^aAfter many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come into the land that is restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been ^bgathered from many ¹nations to the ^cmountains of Israel which had been a continual waste; but ²its people were brought out from the nations, and they are ^dliving securely, all of them.

⁹“You will go up, you will come ^alike a storm; you will be like a ^bcloud covering the land, you and all your troops, and many peoples with you.”

¹⁰‘Thus says the Lord God, “It will come about on that day, that ¹thoughts will come into your mind and you will ^adevise an evil plan,

¹¹and you will say, ‘I will go up against the land of ^1aunwalled villages. I will go against those who are ^bat rest, that live securely, all of them living without walls and having no bars or gates,

¹²to ^acapture spoil and to seize plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places which are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered from the nations, who have acquired cattle and goods, who live at the ¹center of the world.’

¹³“^aSheba and ^bDedan and the merchants of ^cTarshish with all its ¹villages will say to you, ‘Have you come to capture spoil? Have you assembled your company to seize plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to capture great ^dspoil?’ ” ’

¹⁴“Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “On that day when My people Israel are ^aliving securely, will you not know it?

¹⁵“^aYou will come from your place out of the remote parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great assembly and a mighty army;

¹⁶and you will come up against My people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. It shall come about in the last days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may ^aknow Me when I am ^bsanctified through you before their eyes, O Gog.”

¹⁷‘Thus says the Lord God, “Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days through My servants the prophets of Israel, who ^aprophesied in those days for many years that I would bring you against them?

¹⁸“It will come about on that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” declares the Lord God, “that My fury will mount up in My ^aanger.

¹⁹“In My ^azeal and in My blazing wrath I declare that on that day there will surely be a great ^1bearthquake in the land of Israel.

²⁰“^aThe fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all the creeping things that creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth will shake at My presence; the ^bmountains also will be thrown down, the steep pathways will ¹collapse and every wall will fall to the ground.

²¹“I will call for a ^asword against ¹him on all My mountains,” declares the Lord God. “^bEvery man’s sword will be against his brother.

²²“With pestilence and with blood I will enter into ^ajudgment with him; and I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, ¹a torrential rain, with ^bhailstones, fire and brimstone.

²³“I will magnify Myself, sanctify Myself, and ^amake Myself known in the sight of many nations; and they will know that I am the Lord.” ’

Chapter 39

Prophecy against Gog—Invaders Destroyed

¹“And ^ayou, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, ‘Thus says the Lord ¹God, “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, ²prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal;

²and I will turn you around, drive you on, take you up from the remotest parts of the north and bring you against the mountains of Israel.

³“I will ^astrike your bow from your left hand and dash down your arrows from your right hand.

⁴“You will ^afall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; I will give you as ^bfood to every ¹kind of predatory bird and beast of the field.

⁵“You will fall on the ¹open field; for it is I who have spoken,” declares the Lord God.

⁶“And I will send ^afire upon Magog and those who inhabit the ^bcoastlands in safety; and they will know that I am the Lord.

⁷“My ^aholy name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel; and I will not let My holy name be ^bprofaned anymore. And the ^cnations will know that I am the Lord, the ^dHoly One in Israel.

⁸“Behold, it is coming and it shall be done,” declares the Lord God. “That is the day of which I have spoken.

⁹“Then those who inhabit the cities of Israel will ^ago out and make ^bfires with the weapons and burn them, both shields and bucklers, bows and arrows, war clubs and spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them.

¹⁰“They will not take wood from the…