Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones

37 The ^(A)hand of Yahweh was upon me, and He ^(B)brought me out ^[a]by the Spirit of Yahweh and caused me to rest in the middle of the ^(C)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, ^(D)can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord Yahweh, ^(E)You know.” ⁴ Then He said to me, “^(F)Prophesy over these bones and say to them, ‘O dry bones, ^(G)hear the word of Yahweh.’ ⁵ Thus says Lord Yahweh to these bones, ‘Behold, I will cause ^[b](H)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 ^(I)know that I am Yahweh.’”

⁷ So I prophesied ^(J)as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a ^[c]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 ^[d]winds, O breath, and ^(K)breathe on these who were killed, that they may ^(L)come to life.”’” ¹⁰ So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the ^(M)breath came into them, and they came to life and stood on their feet, an ^(N)exceedingly great military force.

¹¹ Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the ^(O)whole house of Israel; behold, they say, ‘Our ^(P)bones are dried up, and our hope has perished. We are ^[e]completely ^(Q)cut off.’ ¹² Therefore prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will open your graves and ^(R)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 ^(S)put My ^[f]Spirit within you, and you will come to life, and I will ^[g]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 ^(T)one stick and write on it, ‘For ^(U)Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For ^(V)Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.’ ¹⁷ Then ^(W)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 ^(X)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 ^(Y)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 ^(Z)one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and ^(AA)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 ^(AB)no longer defile themselves with their idols or with their detestable things or with any of their transgressions; but ^(AC)I will save them from all their ^[h]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 ^(AD)David will be king over them, and they will all have ^(AE)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 ^(AF)David My servant will be their prince forever. ²⁶ And I will cut a ^(AG)covenant of peace with them; it will be an ^(AH)everlasting covenant with them. And I will give them the land and ^(AI)multiply them and will set My ^(AJ)sanctuary in their midst forever. ²⁷ My ^[i](AK)dwelling place also will be with them; and ^(AL)I will be their God, and they will be My people. ²⁸ And the nations will know that I am Yahweh ^(AM)who sanctifies Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forever.”’”