| 37 | Ezekiel | ||
| 1 | The hand of Yahweh was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; it was full of bones. | Zedekiah's request to Jeremiah. Jr.37.1-10 | |
| 2 | And he led me round among them; and behold, there were very many upon the valley; and lo, they were very dry. | ||
| 3 | And he said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" And I answered, "O Yahweh GOD, you know." | ||
| 4 | Again he said to me, "Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of Yahweh. | ||
| 5 | Thus says Yahweh GOD to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. | ||
| 6 | And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am Yahweh." | ||
| 7 | So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone. | ||
| 8 | And as I looked, there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them; but there was no breath in them. | ||
| 9 | Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says Yahweh GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live." | ||
| 10 | So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great host. | ||
| 11 | Then he said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.' | ||
| 12 | Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says Yahweh GOD: Behold, I will open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you home into the land of Israel. | ||
| 13 | And you shall know that I am Yahweh, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people. | ||
| 14 | And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land; then you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken, and I have done it, says Yahweh." | ||
| 15 | The word of Yahweh came to me: | Judah & Israel, one kingdom. Eze.37.15-28 | |
| 16 | "Son of man, take a stick and write on it, 'For Judah, and the children of Israel associated with him'; then take another stick and write upon it, 'For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him'; | ||
| 17 | and join them together into one stick, that they may become one in your hand. | ||
| 18 | And when your people say to you, 'Will you not show us what you mean by these? | ||
| 19 | say to them, Thus says Yahweh GOD: Behold, I am about to take the stick of Joseph (which is in the hand of Ephraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with him; and I will join with it the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, that they may be one in my hand. | ||
| 20 | When the sticks on which you write are in your hand before their eyes, | ||
| 21 | then say to them, Thus says Yahweh GOD: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all sides, and bring them to their own land; | ||
| 22 | and I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all; and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms. | ||
| 23 | They shall not defile themselves any more with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. | ||
| 24 | "My servant David shall be king over them; and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall follow my ordinances and be careful to observe my statutes. | ||
| 25 | They shall dwell in the land where your fathers dwelt that I gave to my servant Jacob; they and their children and their children's children shall dwell there for ever; and David my servant shall be their prince for ever. | ||
| 26 | I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will bless them and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. | ||
| 27 | My dwelling place shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. | ||
| 28 | Then the nations will know that I Yahweh sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary is in the midst of them for evermore." | ||
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