[1] The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of
Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of
bones. [2] He caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there
were very many 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 the word of Yahweh. [5] Thus says the Lord Yahweh to
these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall
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 shall live; and you
shall know that I am Yahweh. [7] So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as
I prophesied, there was a noise, and, behold, an earthquake; and the 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 said he to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son
of man, and tell the wind, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 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, and stood up on their feet, an exceeding 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 clean cut
off. [12] Therefore prophesy, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
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
shall know that I 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 shall live, and I will place you in your own land: and you shall
know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it, says Yahweh. [15] The
word of Yahweh 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] and join
them for you one to another into one stick, that they may become one in
your hand. [18] When the children of your people shall speak to you,
saying, Will you not show us what you mean by these? [19] tell them, Thus
says the Lord Yahweh: 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, [even] with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick,
and they shall be one in my hand. [20] The sticks whereon you write shall
be in your hand before their eyes. [21] Say to them, Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations,
where they are 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, on
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
dwelling-places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall
they be my people, and I will be their God. [24] My servant David shall be
king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk
in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them. [25] They shall
dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your
fathers lived; and they shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and
their children`s children, forever: and David my servant 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 forevermore.
[27] My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they
shall be my people. [28] The nations shall know that I am Yahweh who
sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them
forevermore.
