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Ezekiel, starting at chapter 37
{37:1} The 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. {37:2} He caused me to pass by them all around: and
behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were
very dry. {37:3} He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? I
answered, Lord GOD, you know. {37:4} Again he said to me, Prophesy
over these bones, and tell them, you dry bones, hear the word of the
LORD. {37:5} Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: Behold, I will
cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live. {37:6} 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 the LORD. {37:7} 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. {37:8} 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. {37:9} Then he said to me,
Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, Thus
says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on
these slain, that they may live. {37:10} So 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. {37:11} 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. {37:12} Therefore prophesy, and tell 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 Eretz-Israel.
{37:13} You 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.
{37:14} 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, the LORD, have
spoken it and performed it, says the LORD. {37:15} The word of the
LORD came again to me, saying, {37:16} 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:
{37:17} and join them for you one to another into one stick, that they
may become one in your hand. {37:18} When the children of your people
shall speak to you, saying, Will you not show us what you mean by
these? {37:19} tell 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, [even] with the
stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my
hand. {37:20} The sticks whereon you write shall be in your hand
before their eyes. {37:21} Say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD:
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: {37:22} 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; {37:23} 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.
{37:24} 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. {37:25} 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. {37:26} 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 their midst forevermore.
{37:27} My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and
they shall be my people. {37:28} The nations shall know that I am the
LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in their midst
forevermore.
{38:1} The word of the LORD came to me, saying, {38:2} Son of man,
set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh,
Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him, {38:3} and say, Thus
says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh,
Meshech, and Tubal: {38:4} and I will turn you around, and put hooks
into your jaws, and I will bring you forth, with all your army, horses
and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with
buckler and shield, all of them handling swords; {38:5} Persia, Cush,
and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet; {38:6} Gomer,
and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of
the north, and all his hordes; even many peoples with you. {38:7} Be
prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies who are
assembled to you, and be a guard to them. {38:8} After many days you
shall be visited: in the latter years you shall come into the land
that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many
peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual
waste; but it is brought forth out of the peoples, and they shall
dwell securely, all of them. {38:9} You shall ascend, you shall come
like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and
all your hordes, and many peoples with you. {38:10} Thus says the Lord
GOD: It shall happen in that day, that things shall come into your
mind, and you shall devise an evil device: {38:11} and you shall say,
I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to those who
are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls,
and having neither bars nor gates; {38:12} to take the spoil and to
take the prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are
[now] inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the
nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle
of the earth. {38:13} Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish,
with all the young lions of it, shall tell you, Have you come to take
the spoil? have you assembled your company to take the prey? to carry
away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great
spoil? {38:14} Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, Thus
says the Lord GOD: In that day when my people Israel dwells securely,
shall you not know it? {38:15} You shall come from your place out of
the uttermost parts of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all
of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army; {38:16}
and you shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover
the land: it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring you
against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be
sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes. {38:17} Thus says the Lord
GOD: Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the
prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for [many] years that
I would bring you against them? {38:18} It shall happen in that day,
when Gog shall come against Eretz-Israel, says the Lord GOD, that my
wrath shall come up into my nostrils. {38:19} For in my jealousy and
in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall
be a great shaking in Eretz-Israel; {38:20} so that the fish of the
sea, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the field, and all
creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the
surface of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains
shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall
shall fall to the ground. {38:21} I will call for a sword against him
to all my mountains, says the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be
against his brother. {38:22} With pestilence and with blood will I
enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him, and on his
hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing
shower, and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur. {38:23} I will magnify
myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes
of many nations; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
{39:1} You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the
Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and
Tubal: {39:2} and I will turn you around, and will lead you on, and
will cause you to come up from the uttermost parts of the north; and I
will bring you on the mountains of Israel; {39:3} and I will strike
your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out
of your right hand. {39:4} You shall fall on the mountains of Israel,
you, and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you: I will
give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of
the field to be devoured. {39:5} You shall fall on the open field; for
I have spoken it, says the Lord GOD. {39:6} I will send a fire on
Magog, and on those who dwell securely in the islands; and they shall
know that I am the LORD. {39:7} My holy name will I make known in the
midst of my people Israel; neither will I allow my holy name to be
profaned any more: and the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the
Holy One in Israel. {39:8} Behold, it comes, and it shall be done,
says the Lord GOD; this is the day about which I have spoken. {39:9}
Those who dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall make
fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers,
the bows and the arrows, and the war clubs, and the spears, and they
shall make fires of them seven years; {39:10} so that they shall take
no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for
they shall make fires of the weapons; and they shall plunder those who
plundered them, and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord GOD.
{39:11} It shall happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place
for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east
of the sea; and it shall stop those who pass through: and there shall
they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it The valley
of Hamon Gog. {39:12} Seven months shall the house of Israel be
burying them, that they may cleanse the land. {39:13} Yes, all the
people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown
in the day that I shall be glorified, says the Lord GOD. {39:14} They
shall set apart men of continual employment, who shall pass through
the land, and, with those who pass through, those who bury those who
remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it: after the end of
seven months shall they search. {39:15} Those who pass through the
land shall pass through; and when any sees a man's bone, then shall he
set up a sign by it, until the undertakers have buried it in the
valley of Hamon Gog. {39:16} Hamonah shall also be the name of a city.
Thus shall they cleanse the land. {39:17} You, son of man, thus says
the Lord GOD: Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of
the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every
side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great
sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink
blood. {39:18} You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the
blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of
bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan. {39:19} You shall eat fat until
you be full, and drink blood until you are drunk, of my sacrifice
which I have sacrificed for you. {39:20} You shall be filled at my
table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of
war, says the Lord GOD. {39:21} I will set my glory among the nations;
and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my
hand that I have laid on them. {39:22} So the house of Israel shall
know that I am the LORD their God, from that day and forward. {39:23}
The nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity
for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my
face from them: so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and
they fell all of them by the sword. {39:24} According to their
uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I to them; and I
hid my face from them. {39:25} Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Now
will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole
house of Israel; and I will be jealous for my holy name. {39:26} They
shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have
trespassed against me, when they shall dwell securely in their land,
and none shall make them afraid; {39:27} when I have brought them back
from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and
am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations. {39:28} They shall
know that I am the LORD their God, in that I caused them to go into
captivity among the nations, and have gathered them to their own land;
and I will leave none of them any more there; {39:29} neither will I
hide my face any more from them; for I have poured out my Spirit on
the house of Israel, says the Lord GOD.
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