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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.”’”

Prophecy Against Gog

38 And the word of Yahweh came to me saying, ² “Son of man, set your face toward ^(AN)Gog of the land of ^(AO)Magog, the ^[j](AP)chief prince of ^(AQ)Meshech and ^(AR)Tubal, and prophesy against him ³ and say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, ^[k]chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. ⁴ I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will ^(AS)bring you out, and all your military force, ^(AT)horses and horsemen, all of them ^[l]magnificently dressed, a great assembly with large shield and shield, all of them ^[m]wielding swords; ^5 (AU)Persia, ^[n](AV)Ethiopia, and ^(AW)Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet; ^6 (AX)Gomer with all its troops; ^(AY)Beth-togarmah from the remote parts of the north with all its troops—many peoples with you.

⁷ “^(AZ)Be prepared, and prepare yourself, you and all your assembly that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them. ^8 (BA)After many days you will be mustered; in the last years you will come into the land that is ^[o]restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been ^(BB)gathered from many peoples to the ^(BC)mountains of Israel which had been a continual waste; but ^[p]its people were brought out from the peoples, and they are ^(BD)living securely, all of them. ⁹ And you will go up; you will come ^(BE)like a storm; you will be like a ^(BF)cloud covering the land, you and all your troops and many peoples with you.”

¹⁰ ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “It will be in that day, that ^[q]thoughts will come into your heart, and you will ^(BG)devise an evil plan, ¹¹ and you will say, ‘I will go up against the land of ^[r](BH)unwalled villages. I will go against those who ^(BI)dwell quietly, that live securely, all of them living without walls and having no bars or gates, ¹² to ^(BJ)capture spoil and to seize plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places, which are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered from the nations, who have acquired cattle and property, who live at the ^[s]center of the world.’ ^13 (BK)Sheba and ^(BL)Dedan and the merchants of ^(BM)Tarshish with all its ^[t]young lions will say to you, ‘Have you come to capture spoil? Have you assembled your assembly to seize plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to capture great ^(BN)spoil?’”’

¹⁴ “Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “On that day when My people Israel are ^(BO)living securely, will you not know it? ^15 (BP)You will come from your place out of the remote parts of the north, you and numerous peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great assembly and a numerous military force; ¹⁶ and you will come up against My people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. It will be in the last days that I will bring you against My land so that the nations may ^(BQ)know Me when I ^(BR)prove Myself holy through you before their eyes, O Gog.”

¹⁷ ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days by the hand of My slaves the prophets of Israel, who ^(BS)prophesied in those days for many years that I would bring you against them? ¹⁸ And it will be in that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” declares Lord Yahweh, “that My wrath will mount up in My ^(BT)anger. ¹⁹ In My ^(BU)zeal and in My blazing fury I have spoken that on that day there will surely be a great ^[u](BV)earthquake in the land of Israel. ^20 (BW)And the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the beasts of the field, all the creeping things that creep on the ground, and all the men who are on the face of the earth will quake at My presence; the ^(BX)mountains also will be pulled down, the steep pathways will fall, and every wall will fall to the earth. ²¹ And I will call for a ^(BY)sword against ^[v]him on all My mountains,” declares Lord Yahweh. “^(BZ)Every man’s sword will be against his brother. ²² With pestilence and with blood I will enter into ^(CA)judgment with him; and I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the numerous peoples who are with him, ^[w]a torrential rain, with ^(CB)hailstones, fire, and brimstone. ²³ And I will magnify Myself, I will manifest Myself as holy, and I will ^(CC)make Myself known in the sight of many nations; and they will know that I am Yahweh.”’

Prophecy About Gog’s Judgment

39 “Now as for ^(CD)you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, ^[x]chief prince of Meshech and Tubal; ² and I will turn you around, drive you on, take you up from the remotest parts of the north, and bring you against the mountains of Israel. ³ And I will ^(CE)strike your bow from your left hand and cause your arrows from your right hand to fall. ⁴ You will ^(CF)fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; I will give you as ^(CG)food to every ^[y]kind of predatory bird and beast of the field. ⁵ You will fall on the ^[z]open field; for it is I who have spoken,” declares Lord Yahweh. ⁶ “And I will send ^(CH)fire upon Magog and those who inhabit the ^(CI)coastlands securely; and they will know that I am Yahweh.

⁷ “And My ^(CJ)holy name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel; and I will not let My holy name be ^(CK)profaned anymore. And the ^(CL)nations will know that I am Yahweh, the ^(CM)Holy One in Israel. ⁸ Behold, it is coming, and it shall be done,” declares Lord Yahweh. “That is the day of which I have spoken.

⁹ “Then those who inhabit the cities of Israel will ^(CN)go out and make ^(CO)fires with the weapons and burn them, both shields and large shields, bows and arrows, war clubs and spears; and for seven years they will make fires of them. ¹⁰ They will not carry wood from the field or gather firewood from the forests, for they will make fires with the weapons; and they will take the spoil of those who made them into spoil and seize the ^(CP)plunder of those who plundered them,” declares Lord Yahweh.

¹¹ “And it will be in that day, that I will give Gog a burial ground there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea, and it will block off those who would pass by. So they will bury Gog there with all his multitude, and they will call it the valley of ^[aa]Hamon-gog. ¹² And for seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to ^(CQ)cleanse the land. ¹³ Even all the people of the land will bury them; and it will be ^[ab]unto their ^(CR)name on the day that I ^(CS)glorify Myself,” declares Lord Yahweh. ¹⁴ “Now they will set apart men who will continually pass through the land, ^(CT)burying those who were passing through, even those left on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search. ¹⁵ And those who pass through the land will pass through, and when anyone sees a man’s bone, he will ^[ac]set up a marker by it until the buriers have buried it in the valley of ^[ad]Hamon-gog. ¹⁶ And even the name of the city will be Hamonah. So they will cleanse the land.”’

¹⁷ “Now as for you, son of man, thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Say to every ^[ae]kind of ^(CU)bird and to every ^(CV)beast of the field, “Gather and come, assemble from every side to My sacrifice which I am going to ^(CW)sacrifice for you, as a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood. ¹⁸ You will ^(CX)eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, as though they were ^(CY)rams, lambs, goats, and ^(CZ)bulls, all of them fatlings of ^(DA)Bashan. ¹⁹ So you will eat fat until you are satisfied and drink blood until you are drunk, from My sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. ²⁰ And you will be satisfied at My table with ^(DB)horses and charioteers, with mighty men and all the men of war,” declares Lord Yahweh.

²¹ “And I will put My ^(DC)glory among the nations; and all the nations will see My judgment which I have executed and My hand which I have placed on them. ²² And the house of Israel will ^(DD)know that I am Yahweh their God from that day onward. ²³ And the nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their ^(DE)iniquity because they acted unfaithfully against Me, and I ^(DF)hid My face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and all of them fell by the sword. ^24 (DG)According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I dealt with them, and I hid My face from them.”’”

Israel Will Live in Security

²⁵ Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, “Now I will return the ^[af](DH)fortunes of Jacob and have compassion on the whole ^(DI)house of Israel; and I will be ^(DJ)jealous for My holy name. ²⁶ So they will ^[ag](DK)forget their dishonor and all their unfaithfulness which they ^[ah]perpetrated against Me, when they ^(DL)live securely on their own land with ^(DM)no one to make them tremble. ²⁷ When I ^(DN)return them from the peoples and gather them from the lands of their enemies, then I shall ^(DO)prove Myself holy ^[ai]through them in the sight of the many nations. ²⁸ Then they will know that I am Yahweh their God because I made them go into exile among the nations, and then collected them again to their own land; and I will leave none of them there any longer. ²⁹ And I will not hide My face from them any longer, for I will have ^(DP)poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel,” declares Lord Yahweh.