24 My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them.(A) They will follow my ordinances, and keep my statutes and obey them.(B)

25 “‘They will live in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob,(C) where your ancestors lived. They will live in it forever with their children and grandchildren, and my servant David will be their prince forever.(D) 26 I will make a covenant of peace with them;(E) it will be a permanent covenant(F) with them. I will establish and multiply them and will set my sanctuary among them forever. 27 My dwelling place will be with them;(G) I will be their God, and they will be my people.(H) 28 When my sanctuary is among them forever, the nations will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel.’”(I)

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24 “‘“And my servant David will be king over them, and one shepherd will be for all of them, and in my regulations they will go, and my statutes they will observe, and they will do them. 25 And they will dwell on the land that I gave to my servant, to Jacob, in which your ancestors dwelled,[a] and they will dwell on it, they and their children and the children of their children forever,[b] and my servant David will be a leader for them forever.[c] 26 And I will make with them a covenant of peace; an everlasting covenant[d] it will be with them. And I will establish them, and I will cause them to increase, and I will put my sanctuary in the midst of them forever.[e] 27 And my tabernacle will be with them, and I will be for them as God, and they will be to me as a nation. 28 And the nations will know that I, Yahweh, am consecrating Israel when my sanctuary is in the midst of them forever.”’”[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 37:25 Literally “which they dwelt in it your fathers”
  2. Ezekiel 37:25 Literally “until eternity” or “until unlimited time”
  3. Ezekiel 37:25 Literally “to eternity” or “to endless ages”
  4. Ezekiel 37:26 Literally “a covenant of eternity”
  5. Ezekiel 37:26 Literally “to eternity” or “to unlimited ages”
  6. Ezekiel 37:28 Literally “to eternity” or “to unlimited ages”