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Yechezkel - Ezekiel - Chapter 37
Chapter 37
| 1. The hand of the Lord came upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley, and that was full of bones. |
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| 2. And He made me pass by them round about, and lo! they were exceedingly many on the surface of the valley, and lo! they were exceedingly dry. |
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| 3. Then He said to me; "Son of man, can these bones become alive?" And I answered, "O Lord God, You [alone] know." |
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| 4. And He said to me, "Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, 'O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.' |
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| 5. So says the Lord God to these bones; Behold, I will cause spirit to enter into you, and you shall live! |
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| 6. And I will lay sinews upon you, and I will make flesh grow over you and cover you with skin and put breath into you, and you will live, and you will then know that I am the Lord." |
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| 7. So I prophesied as I was commanded, and there arose a noise when I prophesied, and behold a commotion, and the bones came together, bone to its bone! |
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| 8. And I looked, and lo! sinews were upon them, and flesh came upon them, and skin covered them from above, but there was still no spirit in them. |
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| 9. Then He said to me, "Prophesy to the spirit, prophesy, O son of man, and say to the spirit, 'So says the Lord God: From four sides come, O spirit, and breathe into these slain ones that they may live.' " |
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| 10. And I prophesied as He had commanded me, and the spirit came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, a very great army, exceedingly so. |
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| 11. Then He said to me, "Son of man, these bones are all the house of Israel. Behold they say, 'Our bones have become dried up, our hope is lost, we are clean cut off to ourselves.' |
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| 12. Therefore, prophesy and say to them, So says the Lord God: Lo! I open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves as My people, and bring you home to the land of Israel. |
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| 13. Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and lead you up out of your graves as My people. |
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| 14. And I will put My spirit into you, and you shall live, and I will set you on your land, and you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and have performed it," says the Lord. |
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| 15. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: |
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| 16. "And you, son of man, take for yourself one stick and write upon it, 'For Judah and for the children of Israel his companions'; and take one stick and write upon it, 'For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.' |
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| 17. And bring them close, one to the other into one stick, and they shall be one in your hand. |
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| 18. And when the children of your people say to you, saying, 'Will you not tell us what these are to you?' |
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| 19. Say to them, So 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 place them with him with the stick of Judah, and I will make them into one stick, and they shall become one in My hand. |
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| 20. And the sticks upon which you shall write shall be in your hand before their eyes. |
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| 21. And say to them, So says the Lord God: Behold I will take the children of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every side, and I will bring them to their land. |
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| 22. And I will make them into one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be to them all as a king; and they shall no longer be two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms anymore. |
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| 23. And they shall no longer defile themselves with their idols, with their detestable things, or with all their transgressions, and I will save them from all their habitations in which they have sinned, and I will purify them, and they shall be to Me as a people, and I will be to them as a God. |
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| 24. And My servant David shall be king over them, and one shepherd shall be for them all, and they shall walk in My ordinances and observe My statutes and perform them. |
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| 25. And they shall dwell on the land that I have given to My servant, to Jacob, wherein your forefathers lived; and they shall dwell upon it, they and their children and their children's children, forever; and My servant David shall be their prince forever. |
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| 26. And I will form a covenant of peace for them, an everlasting covenant shall be with them; and I will establish them and I will multiply them, and I will place My Sanctuary in their midst forever. |
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| 27. And My dwelling place shall be over them, and I will be to them for a God, and they shall be to Me as a people. |
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| 28. And the nations shall know that I am the Lord, Who sanctifies Israel, when My Sanctuary is in their midst forever." |
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