| Chapter
37 |
| 1 | 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, |
| 2 | 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. |
| 3 | And he said
unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou
knowest. |
| 4 | Again he said
unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the
word of the LORD. |
| 5 | Thus
saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into
you, and ye shall live: |
| 6 |
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. |
| 7 | 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. |
| 8 | 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. |
| 9 | 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, |
| 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. |
