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Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones

¹ The ^(C1)hand of Yahweh was upon me, and He ^(C2)brought me out ^(F1)by the Spirit of Yahweh and caused me to rest in the middle of the ^(C3)valley; and it was full of bones.² He caused me to pass among them all around, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley; and behold, they were very dry.³ He said to me, "Son of man, ^(C1)can these bones live?" And I answered, "O Lord Yahweh, ^(C2)You know."⁴ Then He said to me, "^(C1)Prophesy over these bones and say to them, 'O dry bones, ^(C2)hear the word of Yahweh.'⁵ "Thus says Lord Yahweh to these bones, 'Behold, I will cause ^(F1)(C1)breath to enter you that you may come to life.⁶ 'I will put sinews on you, make flesh come up upon you, cover you with skin, and put breath in you that you may come alive; and you will ^(C1)know that I am Yahweh.'"

⁷ So I prophesied ^(C1)as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a ^(F1)noise, and behold, a rumbling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.⁸ And I looked, and behold, sinews were on them, and flesh came up upon them, and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them.⁹ Then He said to me, "Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, 'Thus says Lord Yahweh, "Come from the four ^(F1)winds, O breath, and ^(C1)breathe on these who were killed, that they may ^(C2)come to life."'"¹⁰ So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the ^(C1)breath came into them, and they came to life and stood on their feet, an ^(C2)exceedingly great military force.

¹¹ Then He said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the ^(C1)whole house of Israel; behold, they say, 'Our ^(C2)bones are dried up, and our hope has perished. We are ^(F1)completely ^(C3)cut off.'¹² "Therefore prophesy and say to them, 'Thus says Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I will open your graves and ^(C1)cause you to come up out of your graves, My people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.¹³ "Then you will know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up out of your graves, My people.¹⁴ "And I will ^(C1)put My ^(F1)Spirit within you, and you will come to life, and I will ^(F2)place you on your own land. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken and done it," declares Yahweh.'"

Israel Will No Longer Be Divided

¹⁵ The word of Yahweh came again to me saying,¹⁶ "Now as for you, son of man, take for yourself ^(C1)one stick and write on it, 'For ^(C2)Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions'; then take another stick and write on it, 'For ^(C3)Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.'¹⁷ "Then ^(C1)draw them together for yourself one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.¹⁸ "And when the sons of your people speak to you saying, 'Will you not declare to us ^(C1)what you mean by these?'¹⁹ say to them, 'Thus says 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, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand."'²⁰ "And the sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.²¹ "And speak to them, 'Thus says Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I will ^(C1)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 and I will make them ^(C1)one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and ^(C2)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 "They also will ^(C1)no longer defile themselves with their idols or with their detestable things or with any of their transgressions; but ^(C2)I will save them from all their ^(F1)places of habitation in which they have sinned, and I will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God.

Yahweh Cuts a Covenant

²⁴ "And My servant ^(C1)David will be king over them, and they will all have ^(C2)one shepherd; and they will walk in My judgments and keep My statutes and do them.²⁵ "They will inhabit the land that I gave to Jacob My servant, which your fathers inhabited; and they will inhabit it, they, and their sons and their sons' sons, forever; and ^(C1)David My servant will be their prince forever.²⁶ "And I will cut a ^(C1)covenant of peace with them; it will be an ^(C2)everlasting covenant with them. And I will give them the land and ^(C3)multiply them and will set My ^(C4)sanctuary in their midst forever.²⁷ "My ^(F1)(C1)dwelling place also will be with them; and ^(C2)I will be their God, and they will be My people.²⁸ "And the nations will know that I am Yahweh ^(C1)who sanctifies Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forever."'"