The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,

and he caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.

And he said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowst.

Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

Thus says the Lord God to these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live:

and I will lay sinews upon you, and I will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the Lord.

So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone.

And as I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up on them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.

Then 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 upon these slain, that they may live.

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.

Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Yisra᾽el: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are clean cut off.

Therefore prophesy and say to them, Thus says the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Yisra᾽el.

And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and have brought you up out of your graves,

and I shall put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then you shall know that I the Lord have spoken, and performed it, says the Lord.

And the word of the Lord came to me saying,

And thou, son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it. For Yehuda, and for the children of Yisra᾽el his companions: then take another stick and write upon it. For Yosef, the stick of Efrayim, and for all the house of Yisra᾽el his companions:

and join them one to the other to make one stick; and they shall become one in thy hand.

And when the children of thy people shall speak to thee, saying, Wilt thou not tell us what thou meanest by these?

say to 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 will put them and it together with the stick of Yehuda to form one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.

And the sticks on which thou writest shall be in thy hand before their eyes.

And say to them, Thus says the Lord God; Behold, I will take the children of Yisra᾽el from among the nations, into which they are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:

and I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Yisra᾽el; and one king shall be king over them all: and they shall no more be two nations, nor shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:

nor 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 in all their dwellingplaces, where they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also follow my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.

And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Ya῾aqov my servant, in which your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell there, they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.

Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them, which I will give them; and I will multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.

And my tabernacle shall be with them: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Then the nations shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Yisra᾽el, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.