1 ¶ The hand of the LORD was upon me, and in the Spirit of the LORD I was carried out, and set down in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones,

2 And he caused me to go all around them: and I saw there were very many on the floor of the valley; and they were very dry.

3 And he said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, you know.

4 Again he said to me, Prophesy about these bones, and say to them, O you dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.

5 Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones; Know that I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live:

6 And 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 will live; and you will know that I am the LORD.

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

8 And as I watched the sinews and flesh came on them, and the skin covered them over: but there was no breath in them.

9 Then he said to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus says the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.

10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, a very great multitude.

11 Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the entire house of Israel: they are saying, Our bones are dry, and our hope is gone: we are completely cut off.

12 Therefore prophesy and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; Know, O my people, that I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.

13 Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves, O my people, and bring you up out of your graves,

14 And I will put my spirit in you, and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land: then you will know that I the LORD have decreed it, and brought it to pass, says the LORD.

15 ¶ The word of the LORD then came to me, saying,

16 Moreover, you son of man, take one stick, and write on it, For Judah, and the children of Israel associated with him: then take another stick, and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and all the house of Israel associated with him:

17 Then join both of them together as a single stick; and they will become one in your hand.

18 And when the children of your people ask you, Won’t you explain to us what you mean by these things?

19 Say 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 associated with him, and put them together with the stick of Judah, and make them into a single stick, and they will become one in my hand.

20 And hold the sticks on which you wrote in your hands so they can see them.

21 And say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, where they have gone, and will gather them from every direction, and bring them into their own land:

22 And I will make them one nation in the land and mountains of Israel; and one king will be king over them all: and they will no longer be two nations, nor will they any longer be divided into two kingdoms:

23 Nor will they defile themselves any more with their idols, or with their disgusting practices, or with any of their other sins: but I will save them from all of their backsliding, by which they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so they will be my people, and I will be their God.

24 And David my servant will be king over them; and they will all have one shepherd: they will also walk in my judgments, and heed my statutes, to do them.

25 And they will live in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where your forefathers lived; and they and their children, and their children’s children, will live in it forever: and my servant David will be their prince forever.

26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant: and I will establish them, and increase them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.

27 My tabernacle will also be with them: yes, I will be their God, and they will be my people.

28 And the heathen will know that I the LORD sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary is among them for evermore.