The hand
of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in
the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the
midst of the valley which was full of bones,
02 And caused me to pass by them round about:
and, behold, there were very many in the open
valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
03 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these
bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou
knowest.
04 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these
bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear
the word of the Lord.
05 Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones;
Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you,
and ye shall live:
06 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring
up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and
put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye
shall know that I am the Lord.
07 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I
prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a
shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his
bone.
08 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the
flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered
them above: but there was no breath in them.
09 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind,
prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus
saith the Lord 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
up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones
are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say,
Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are
cut off for our parts.
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus
saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will
open your graves, and cause you to come up out of
your graves, and bring you into the land of
Israel.
13 And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I
have opened your graves, O my people, and brought
you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall
live, and I shall place you in your own land:
then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken
it, and performed it, saith the Lord.
15 The word of the Lord came again unto me,
saying,
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16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one
stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the
children of Israel his companions: then take
another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the
stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel
his companions:
17 And join them one to another into one stick;
and they shall become one in thine hand.
18 And when the children of thy people shall
speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us
what thou meanest by these?
19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God;
Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is
in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel
his fellows, and will put them with him, even
with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick,
and they shall be one in mine hand.
20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be
in thine hand before their eyes.
21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God;
Behold, I will take the children of Israel from
among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will
gather them on every side, and bring them into
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 to them all: and they shall be no more
two nations, neither shall they be divided into
two kingdoms any more at all.
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 dwellingplaces,
wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them:
so shall they be my people, and I will be their
God.
24 And David my servant shall be king over them;
and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall
also walk in my judgments, and observe my
statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have
given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers
have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even
they, and their children, and their children's
children for ever: and my servant David shall be
their prince for ever.
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 the midst of them
for evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I
will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do
sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in
the midst of them for evermore.
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