And he said to me: Son of man: All these bones are the house of Israel: they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost, and we are cut off.

And he said to me: Son of man: All these bones are the house of Israel: they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost, and we are cut off.

whole house

Ezekiel 37:16,19 And thou son of man, take thee a stick: and write upon it: Of Juda, and of the children of Israel his associates: and take another stick and write upon it: For Joseph the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, and of his associates. . . .

Ezekiel 36:10 And I will multiply men upon you, and all the house of Israel: and the cities ball be inhabited, and the ruinous places shall be repaired.

Ezekiel 39:25 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Now will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and will have mercy on all the house of Israel and I will be jealous for my holy name.

Jeremiah 31:1 At that time, saith the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

Jeremiah 33:24-26 Hast thou not seen what this people hath spoken, saying: The two families which the Lord had chosen, are cast off: and they have despised my people, so that it is no more a nation before them? . . .

Hosea 1:11 And the children of Juda, and the children of Israel, shall be gathered together: and they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall come up out of the land: for great is the day of Jezrahel.

Romans 11:26 And so all Israel should be saved, as it is written: There shall come out of Sion, he that shall deliver and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

2 Corinthians 5:14 For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one died for all, then all were dead.

Ephesians 2:1 And you, when you were dead in your offences and sins,

Our bones

Ezekiel 37:1-8 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me forth in the spirit of the Lord: and set me down in the midst of a plain that was full of bones. . . .

Numbers 17:12,13 And the children of Israel said to Moses: Behold we are consumed, we all perish. . . .

Psalm 77:7-9 Will God then cast off for ever? or will he never be more favourable again? . . .

Psalm 141:7 As when the thickness of the earth is broken up upon the ground: Our bones are scattered by the side of hell.

Isaiah 40:27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel: My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

Isaiah 49:14 And Sion said: The Lord hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me.

Jeremiah 2:25 Keep thy foot from being bare, and thy throat from thirst. But thou saidst: I have lost all hope, I will not do it: for I have loved strangers, and I will walk after them.