| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2He 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" And I answered, "O Lord GOD, You know." |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Again He said to me, "Prophesy over these bones and say to them, 'O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.' |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones, 'Behold, I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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 know that I am the LORD.'" |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8And I looked, and behold, sinews were on them, and flesh grew and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Then He said to me, "Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they come to life."'" |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they came to life and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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 has perished. We are completely cut off.' |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"Therefore prophesy and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up out of your graves, My people. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"I will put My Spirit within you and you will come to life, and I will place you on your own land. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken and done it," declares the LORD.'" |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The word of the LORD came again to me saying, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"And you, son of man, take for yourself one stick and write on it, 'For Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions'; then take another stick and write on it, 'For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.' |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"Then join them for yourself one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"When the sons of your people speak to you saying, 'Will you not declare to us what you mean by these?' |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will take 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"They will no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes and observe them. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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 David My servant will be their prince forever. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will place them and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in their midst forever. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27"My dwelling place also will be with them; and I will be their God, and they will be My people. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28"And the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forever."'" |
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