1 The AEzek 1:3; 33:22; 40:1hand of the Loʀᴅ was upon me, and He BEzek 8:3; 11:24; 43:5; Acts 8:39brought me out 1Or inby the Spirit of the Loʀᴅ and set me down in the middle of the CJer 7:32-8:2valley; and it was full of bones. 2 He caused me to pass among them round about, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley; and lo, they were very dry. 3 He said to me, “Son of man, AEzek 26:19can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord 1Heb YHWH, usually rendered Loʀᴅ, and so throughout the chGoᴅ, BDeut 32:39; 1 Sam 2:6You know.” 4 Again He said to me, “AEzek 37:9, 12Prophesy over these bones and say to them, ‘O dry bones, BJer 22:29; Ezek 36:1hear the word of the Loʀᴅ.’ 5  “Thus says the Lord Goᴅ to these bones, ‘Behold, I will cause 1Or spirit, and so throughout the chAGen 2:7; Ps 104:29, 30; Ezek 37:9, 10, 14breath to enter you that you may come to life. 6  ‘I will put sinews on you, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin and put breath in you that you may come alive; and you will AIs 49:23; Ezek 35:9; 38:23; 39:6; Joel 2:27; 3:17know that I am the Loʀᴅ.’ ”

7 So I prophesied AJer 13:5-7as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a 1Lit voice; or thundernoise, and behold, a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone. 8 And I looked, and behold, sinews were on them, and flesh grew and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them. 9 Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, ‘Thus says the Lord Goᴅ, “Come from the four winds, O breath, and APs 104:30breathe on these slain, that they BHos 13:14come to life.” ’ ” 10 So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the ARev 11:11breath came into them, and they came to life and stood on their feet, an BJer 30:19; 33:22exceedingly great army.

11 Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the AJer 33:24; Ezek 36:10; 39:25whole house of Israel; behold, they say, ‘Our BPs 141:7bones are dried up and our hope has perished. We are 1Lit cut off to ourselvescompletely CPs 88:5; Lam 3:54cut off.’ 12  “Therefore prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Goᴅ, “Behold, I will open your graves and ADeut 32:39; 1 Sam 2:6; Is 26:19; 66:14; Hos 13:14cause you to come up out of your graves, My people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel. 13  “Then you will know that I am the Loʀᴅ, when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up out of your graves, My people. 14  “I will AIs 32:15; Ezek 11:19; 36:27; 37:6, 9; 39:29; Joel 2:28, 29; Zech 12:10put My 1Or breathSpirit within you and you will come to life, and I will place you on your own land. Then you will know that I, the Loʀᴅ, have spoken and done it,” declares the Loʀᴅ.’ ”

15 The word of the Loʀᴅ came again to me saying, 16 “And you, son of man, take for yourself ANum 17:2, 3one stick and write on it, ‘For B2 Chr 10:17; 11:11-17; 15:9Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For C1 Kin 12:16-20; 2 Chr 10:19Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.’ 17  “Then AIs 11:13; Jer 50:4; Ezek 37:22-24; Hos 1:11; Zeph 3:9join them for yourself one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand. 18  “When the sons of your people speak to you saying, ‘Will you not declare to us AEzek 12:9; 17:12; 20:49; 24:19what you mean by these?’ 19 say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Goᴅ, “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 put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand.” ’ 20  “The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes. 21  “Say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Goᴅ, “Behold, I will AIs 43:5, 6; Jer 29:14; Ezek 36:24; 39:27; Amos 9:14, 15take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; 22 and I will make them AJer 3:18; 50:4, 5; Ezek 36:10one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and BEzek 34:23, 24; 37:24one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations and no longer be divided into two kingdoms. 23  “They will AEzek 36:25no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but BEzek 36:28, 29I will deliver them from all their 1Another reading is backslidingsdwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God.

24 “My servant AJer 30:9; Ezek 34:24; 37:25; Hos 3:5David will be king over them, and they will all have BPs 78:71; Is 40:11; Ezek 34:23one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes and observe them. 25  “They will live on the land that I gave to Jacob My servant, in which your fathers lived; and they will live on it, they, and their sons and their sons’ sons, forever; and AIs 11:1; Ezek 37:24; Zech 6:12David My servant will be their prince forever. 26  “I will make a AEzek 16:62; 20:37; 34:25covenant of peace with them; it will be an BPs 89:3, 4; Is 55:3; 59:21; Ezek 16:60everlasting covenant with them. And I will 1Lit giveplace them and CJer 30:19; Ezek 36:10, 11, 37multiply them, and will set My DEzek 20:40; 43:7sanctuary in their midst forever. 27  “My AJohn 1:14; Rev 21:3dwelling place also will be with them; and BEzek 37:23; 2 Cor 6:16I will be their God, and they will be My people. 28  “And the nations will know that I am the Loʀᴅ AEx 31:13; Ezek 20:12who sanctifies Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forever.” ’ ”