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37 : 1 The hand of theLordwas upon me, andhe brought me out in the Spirit of theLordand set me down in the middle of the valley;it was full of bones.
37 : 2 And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry.
37 : 3 And he said to me,Son of man,can these bones live?AndI answered,O LordGod, you know.
37 : 4 Then he said to me,Prophesy over these bones, and say to them,O dry bones, hear the word of theLord.
37 : 5 Thus says the LordGodto these bones: Behold, I will causebreathto enter you, and you shall live.
37 : 6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, andcover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live,and you shall know that I am theLord.
37 : 7 So I prophesiedas I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a sound, and behold,a rattling,and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
37 : 8 And I looked, and behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them. Butthere was no breath in them.
37 : 9 Then he said to me,Prophesy to the breath; prophesy,son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the LordGod: Come fromthe four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.
37 : 10 So I prophesiedas he commanded me, andthe breath came into them, and they lived and stood 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, andour hope is lost;we are indeed cut off.
37 : 12 Thereforeprophesy, and say to them, Thus says the LordGod: Behold,I will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people. AndI will bring you into the land of Israel.
37 : 13 Andyou shall know that I am theLord, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people.
37 : 14 AndI 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 theLord;I have spoken, and I will do it, declares theLord.
37 : 15 The word of theLordcame to me:
37 : 16 Son of man,take a stickand write on it,ForJudah, andthe people of Israel associated with him; then take another stick and write on it,ForJoseph (the stick ofEphraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him.
37 : 17 Andjoin them one to another into one stick, thatthey may becomeone in your hand.
37 : 18 And whenyour people say to you,Will you not tell us what you mean by these?
37 : 19 say to them, Thus says the LordGod: Behold, I am about to takethe stick of Joseph (that is in the hand of Ephraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with him. And I will join with it thestick of Judah,andmake them one stick,that they may be one in my hand.
37 : 20 When the sticks on which you write are in your handbefore their eyes,
37 : 21 then say to them, Thus says the LordGod: Behold,I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, andbring them to their own land.
37 : 22 AndI will make them one nation in the land, onthe mountains of Israel. Andone king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longertwo nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.
37 : 23 They shall notdefile themselves anymorewith their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. ButI will save them from all the backslidingsin which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; andthey shall be my people, and I will be their God.
37 : 24 My servantDavidshall be king over them, and they shall all haveone shepherd.They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes.
37 : 25 They 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 thereforever, and David my servant shall be their princeforever.
37 : 26 I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall bean everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their landandmultiply them, and willset my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.
37 : 27 My dwelling place shall be with them,and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
37 : 28 Thenthe nations will know thatI am theLordwho sanctifies Israel, whenmy sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.