- 1The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.
- 2He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry.
- 3He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? I answered, Lord the Lord, you know.
- 4Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, you dry bones, hear the Lord’s word.
- 5Thus says the Lord the Lord to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.
- 6I 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 the Lord.
- 7So 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.
- 8I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them.
- 9Then he said to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, Thus says the Lord the Lord: Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.
- 10So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceedingly great army.
- 11Then 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.
- 12Therefore prophesy, and tell them, Thus says the Lord the Lord: 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.
- 13You shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.
- 14I 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, the Lord, have spoken it and performed it, says the Lord.
- 15The Lord’s word came again to me, saying,
- 16You, 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:
- 17and join them for you one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.
- 18When the children of your people shall speak to you, saying, Will you not show us what you mean by these?
- 19tell them, Thus says the Lord the Lord: 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 shall be one in my hand.
- 20The sticks whereon you write shall be in your hand before their eyes.
- 21Say to them, Thus says the Lord the Lord: 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:
- 22and 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;
- 23neither 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.
- 24My 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.
- 25They 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.
- 26Moreover 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 their midst forever more.
- 27My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
- 28The nations shall know that I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in their midst forever more.