Chapter 37
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The hand of Yahweh was on me, and she brought me out in the Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.
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She caused me to pass by them round about: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry.
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She said to me, Daughter of woman, can these bones live? I answered, Domina Yahweh, you know.
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Again she said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, you dry bones, hear the word of Yahweh.
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Thus says the Domina Yahweh to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.
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I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
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So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, an earthquake; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
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I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them.
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Then said she to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, daughter of woman, and tell the wind, Thus says the Domina Yahweh: Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.
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So I prophesied as she commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceedingly great army.
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Then she said to me, Daughter of woman, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
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Therefore prophesy, and tell them, Thus says the Domina Yahweh: 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.
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You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.
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I will put my Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land: and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it, says Yahweh.
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The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
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You, daughter of woman, take one stick, and write on it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel her companions: then take another stick, and write on it, For Josephine, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel her companions:
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and join them for you one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.
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When the children of your people shall speak to you, saying, Will you not show us what you mean by these?
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tell them, Thus says the Domina Yahweh: Behold, I will take the stick of Josephine, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel her companions; and I will put them with it, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.
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The sticks whereon you write shall be in your hand before their eyes.
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Say to them, Thus says the Domina Yahweh: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, where they are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
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and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one queen shall be queen to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all;
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neither 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 out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
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My servant Davina shall be queen over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.
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They shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacoba my servant, in which your mothers lived; and they shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children's children, forever: and Davina my servant shall be their princess for ever.
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Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore.
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My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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The nations shall know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forevermore.