Ezekiel 37 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones

Eze 37:1The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out [fn]by the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.

Eze 37:2

Eze 37:2He caused me to pass among them round about, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley; and lo, they were very dry.

Eze 37:3

Eze 37:3He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord [fn]GOD, You know.”

Eze 37:4

Eze 37:4Again He said to me, “Prophesy over these bones and say to them, ‘O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.’

Eze 37:5

Eze 37:5“Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones, ‘Behold, I will cause [fn]breath to enter you that you may come to life.

Eze 37:6

Eze 37:6‘I will put sinews on you, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin and put breath in you that you may come alive; and you will know that I am the LORD.’”

Eze 37:7

Eze 37:7So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a [fn]noise, and behold, a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.

Eze 37:8

Eze 37:8And I looked, and behold, sinews were on them, and flesh grew and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them.

Eze 37:9

Eze 37:9Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they come to life.”’”

Eze 37:10

Eze 37:10So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they came to life and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.

The Vision Explained

Eze 37:11

Eze 37:11Then 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 has perished. We are [fn]completely cut off.’

Eze 37:12

Eze 37:12“Therefore prophesy and say to 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 the land of Israel.

Eze 37:13

Eze 37:13“Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up out of your graves, My people.

Eze 37:14

Eze 37:14“I will put My [fn]Spirit within you and you will come to life, and I will place you on your own land. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken and done it,” declares the LORD.’”

Reunion of Judah and Israel

Eze 37:15

Eze 37:15The word of the LORD came again to me saying,

Eze 37:16

Eze 37:16“And you, son of man, take for yourself one stick and write on it, ‘For Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.’

Eze 37:17

Eze 37:17“Then join them for yourself one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.

Eze 37:18

Eze 37:18“When the sons of your people speak to you saying, ‘Will you not declare to us what you mean by these?’

Eze 37:19

Eze 37:19say to 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, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand.”’

Eze 37:20

Eze 37:20“The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.

Eze 37:21

Eze 37:21“Say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I will 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;

Eze 37:22

Eze 37:22and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and 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.

Eze 37:23

Eze 37:23“They will no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their [fn]dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God.

The Davidic Kingdom

Eze 37:24

Eze 37:24“My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes and observe them.

Eze 37:25

Eze 37:25“They will live on the land that I gave to Jacob My servant, in which your fathers lived; and they will live on it, they, and their sons and their sons’ sons, forever; and David My servant will be their prince forever.

Eze 37:26

Eze 37:26“I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will [fn]place them and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in their midst forever.

Eze 37:27

Eze 37:27“My dwelling place also will be with them; and I will be their God, and they will be My people.

Eze 37:28

Eze 37:28“And the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forever.”’”

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NASB95 Footnotes

(37:1)

Or, in

(37:3)

Hebrew: YHWH, usually rendered LORD, and so throughout the chapter

(37:5)

Or, spirit, and so throughout the chapter

(37:7)

Literally: voice; or thunder

(37:11)

Literally: cut off to ourselves

(37:14)

Or, breath

(37:23)

Another reading is backslidings

(37:26)

Literally: give

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