NHEBME - Ezekiel - 37

37:1  The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.

37:2  He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry.

37:3  He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" I answered, "Lord God, you know."

37:4  Again he said to me, "Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, 'You dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.'

37:5  Thus says the Lord God to these bones: 'Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.

37:6  I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the Lord.'"

37:7  So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, an earthquake; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.

37:8  I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them.

37:9  Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, 'Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.'"

37:10  So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceedingly great army.

37:11  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.'

37:12  Therefore prophesy, and tell them, 'Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.

37:13  You shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.

37:14  I will put my Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land: and you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and performed it,' says the Lord."

37:15  The word of the Lord came again to me, saying,

37:16  "You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, 'For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions': then take another stick, and write on it, 'For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions':

37:17  and join them for you one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.

37:18  When the children of your people shall speak to you, saying, 'Will you not show us what you mean by these?'

37:19  tell 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, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand."'

37:20  The sticks whereon you write shall be in your hand before their eyes.

37:21  "Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord God: "Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, where they are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:

37:22  and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one 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;

37:23  neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

37:24  "'"My servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.

37:25  They shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived; and they shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children's children, forever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.

37:26  Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.

37:27  My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

37:28  The nations shall know that I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in their midst forevermore."'"