Yechezkel, 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 round about:
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 said he 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 exceeding great army. {37:11} Then he said to me,
Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Yisra'el: 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-Yisra'el.
{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 Yehudah, and for the children of Yisra'el
his companions: then take another stick, and write on it, For Yosef,
the stick of Efrayim, and [for] all the house of Yisra'el 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 Yosef, which is in the hand of
Efrayim, and the tribes of Yisra'el his companions; and I will put
them with it, [even] with the stick of Yehudah, 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
Yisra'el 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 Yisra'el;
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 Ya`akov 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 shalom with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with
them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my
sanctuary in the midst of them 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
Yisra'el, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them 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,
Meshekh, and Tuval, and prophesy against him, {38:3} and say, Thus
says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh,
Meshekh, and Tuval: {38:4} and I will turn you about, and put hooks
into your jaws, and I will bring you forth, and 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} Paras, Kush,
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 Yisra'el, 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 cattle and goods, who dwell in the middle of
the [1>]eretz[<1]. {38:13} Sheva, and Dedan, and the merchants of
Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, shall tell you, Are you come
to take the spoil? have you assembled your company to take the prey?
to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle 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 Yisra'el 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 Yisra'el, 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 Yisra'el, 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-Yisra'el, 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-Yisra'el; {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 [2>]eretz[<2], and all
the men who are on the surface of the [3>]eretz[<3], 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, Meshekh, and
Tuval: {39:2} and I will turn you about, 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 Yisra'el; {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
Yisra'el, 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 isles; and they
shall know that I am the LORD. {39:7} My holy name will I make known
in the midst of my people Yisra'el; 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 Yisra'el. {39:8} Behold, it comes, and it shall
be done, says the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
{39:9} Those who dwell in the cities of Yisra'el 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 Yisra'el, 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 Yisra'el 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 Yisra'el, 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 [1>]eretz[<1], 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 be
drunken, 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 Yisra'el shall know that I am the LORD their God, from
that day and forward. {39:23} The nations shall know that the house of
Yisra'el 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 Ya`akov, and have mercy on the whole house of Yisra'el; 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
Yisra'el, says the Lord GOD.
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Footnotes:
[1] {38:12} earth
[2] {38:20} earth
[3] {38:20} earth
[1] {39:18} earth
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