1The hand of Yahuah (LORD) was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of Yahuah (LORD), and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
2And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
3And he said unto me, Son of Adam, can these bones live? And I answered, O Adonai (Lord) GOD, you know.
4Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O you dry bones, hear the word of Yahuah (LORD).
5Thus says Adonai Yahuah (the Lord GOD) unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live:
6And I will lay sinews upon you, and 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 Yahuah (LORD).
7So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
8And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
9Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of Adam, and say to the wind, Thus says Adonai Yahuah (the Lord GOD); Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
10So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
11Then he said unto me, Son of Adam, these bones are the whole house of Yashar'el (Israel): behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus says Adonai Yahuah (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 Yashar'el (Israel).
13And you shall know that I am Yahuah (LORD), when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14And shall put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall you know that I Yahuah (LORD) have spoken it, and performed it, says Yahuah (LORD).
15The word of Yahuah (LORD) came again unto me, saying,
16Moreover, you son of Adam, take you one stick, and write upon it, For Yahudah (Judah), and for the children of Yashar'el (Israel) his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Yashar'el (Israel) his companions:
17And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in your hand.
18And when the children of your people shall speak unto you, saying, Will you not shew us what you meanest by these?
19Say unto them, Thus says Adonai Yahuah (the Lord GOD); Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Yashar'el (Israel) his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Yahudah (Judah), and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.
20And the sticks whereon you writest shall be in your hand before their eyes.
21And say unto them, Thus says Adonai Yahuah (the Lord GOD); Behold, I will take the children of Yashar'el (Israel) from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Yashar'el (Israel); and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
23Neither 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 dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their Elohim (God).
24And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
26Moreover 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 for evermore.
27My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their Elohim (God), and they shall be my people.
28And the heathen shall know that I Yahuah (LORD) do sanctify Yashar'el (Israel), when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.