Ezekiel 37

¹The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley ; it was full of bones .

²And he led me around among them, and behold , there were very many on the surface of the valley , and behold , they were very dry .

³And he said to me, Son of man , can these bones live ? And I answered , O Lord God, you know .

⁴Then he said to me, Prophesy over these bones , and say to them, O dry bones , hear the word of the Lord.

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

⁶And 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 the Lord.

⁷So I prophesied as I was commanded . And as I prophesied , there was a sound , and behold , a rattling , and the bones came together , bone to its bone .

⁸And I looked , and behold , there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had 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 breathe on these slain , that they may live .

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

¹¹Then 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 indeed cut off .

¹²Therefore prophesy , and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold , I will open your graves and raise you from your graves , O my people . And I will bring you into the land of Israel .

¹³And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves , and raise you from your graves , O my people .

¹⁴And 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 am the Lord; I have spoken , and I will do it , declares the Lord.

¹⁵The word of the Lord came to me:

¹⁶Son of man , take a stick and write on it, For Judah , and the people of Israel associated with him ; then take another stick and write on it, For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim ) and all the house of Israel associated with him .

¹⁷And join them one to another into one stick , that they may become one in your hand .

¹⁸And when your people say to you, Will you not tell us what you mean by these ?

¹⁹say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold , I am about to take the stick of Joseph (that 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 .

²⁰When the sticks on which you write are in your hand before their eyes ,

²¹then say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold , I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone , and will gather them from all around , and bring them to their own land .

²²And I will make them one nation in the land , on 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 .

²³They shall not defile themselves anymore 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 .

²⁴My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd . They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes .

²⁵They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob , where your fathers lived . They and their children and their children’s children shall dwell there forever , and David my servant shall be their prince forever .

²⁶I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore .

²⁷My dwelling place shall be with them, and I will be their God , and they shall be my people .

²⁸Then the nations will know that I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel , when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore .