The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Ezekiel 37
1 Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me
out in Yahweh’s Spirit, and set
me down in the middle of the valley; and it
was full of bones.
2 He caused me to pass by them all
around; andbehold,there were verymany
in the open valley, and behold, they were
very dry.
3 He said to me, “Son of man, can these
bones live?” I answered, “Lord Yahweh, you know.
4 Again he said to me, “Prophesy over
these bones, and tell them, ‘You dry bones,
hear Yahweh’s word.
5 The Lord Yahweh says to these bones:
“Behold, I will cause breath to enter into
you, and you will live.
6 I will lay sinews on you, and will bring
up flesh on you, and cover you with skin,
and put breath in you, and you will live.
Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded.
As I prophesied, there was a noise, and
behold,there was anearthquake. Thenthe
bones came together, bone to its bone.
8 I saw, and, behold, there were sinews
on them, and flesh came up, and skin
covered them above; but there was no breath
in them.
9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the
wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the
wind, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Come from
the four winds, breath, and breathe on
these slain, that they may live.
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me,
and the breath came into them, and they
lived, andstoodupon their feet, anexceedingly great army.
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, and
our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’
12 Therefore prophesy, and tell them,
‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will
open your graves, and cause you to come
up out of your graves, my people; and I will
bring you into the land of Israel.
13 You will know thatI am Yahweh, when
I have opened your graves and caused you
to come up out of your graves, my people.
14 I will put my Spirit in you, and you
will live. Then I will place you in your own
land; and you will know that I, Yahweh,
have spoken it and performed it,” says
Yahweh.
15 Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,
16 “You, son of man, take one stick and
write on it, ‘For Judah, and for the
children of Israel his companions.’
Then take another stick, and write on it,
‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for
all the house of Israel his companions.’
17 Then join them for yourself to one another
into one stick, that they may become
one in your hand.
18 “When the children of your people
speak to you, saying, ‘Won’t you show us
what you mean by these?’
19 tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “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, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:
“Behold, I will take the children of Israel
from among the nations where they have
gone, and will gather them on every side,
and bring them into their own land.
22 I will make them one nation in the
land, on the mountains of Israel. One king
will be king to them all. They willno longer
be two nations. They won’t be divided into
two kingdoms any more at all.
23 They won’t 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 dwelling places in which they have
sinned, and will cleanse them. So they will
be my people, and I will be their God.
24 My servant David will be king over
them. They all will have one shepherd.
They will also walk in my ordinances and
observe my statutes, and do them.
25 They will dwell in the land that I have
given to Jacob my servant, in which your
fathers lived. They will dwelltherein, they,
and their children, and their children’s
children, forever. David my servant will
be their prince forever.
26 Moreover I will make a covenant of
peace with them. It will be an everlasting
covenant with them. I will place them,
multiply them, and will set my sanctuary
among them forever more.
27 My tent also will be with them. I will
be their God, and they will be my people.
28 The nations will know that I am Yahweh
who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary
is among them forever more.