1The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. 2And he caused me to pass by them round about: and, look, there were very many in the open valley; and, look, they were very dry. 3And he said to me, Son of Man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Sovereign Yahweh, you know. 4Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O you{+} dry bones, hear the word of Yahweh. 5Thus says the Sovereign Yahweh to these bones: Look, I will cause breath to enter into you{+}, and you{+} will live. 6And 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{+} will live; and you{+} will know that I am Yahweh. 7So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and, look, an earthquake; and the bones came together, bone to its bone. 8And I looked, and saw that there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them. 9Then he said to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, Son of Man, and say to the wind, Thus says the Sovereign Yahweh: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on 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 on their feet, an exceedingly great army. 11Then he said to me, Son of Man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: look, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off. 12Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Sovereign Yahweh: Look, I will open your{+} graves, and cause you{+} to come up out of your{+} graves, O my people; and I will bring you{+} into the land of Israel. 13And you{+} will know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your{+} graves, and caused you{+} to come up out of your{+} graves, O my people. 14And I will put my Spirit in you{+}, and you{+} will live, and I will place you{+} in your{+} own land: and you{+} will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it, says Yahweh. 15The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying, 16And you, Son of Man, take for yourself one stick, and write on it, For Judah, and for the sons of Israel his partners: then take another stick, and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and [for] all the house of Israel his partners: 17and join them for you one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand. 18And when the sons of your people will speak to you, saying, Will you not show us what you mean by these? 19Say to them, Thus says the Sovereign Yahweh: Look, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his partners; and I will put them with it, [even] with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in my hand. 20And the sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes. 21And say to them, Thus says the Sovereign Yahweh: Look, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations, where they have 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, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king to them all; and no more will they be two nations, neither will they be divided into two kingdoms anymore at all; 23neither will they defile themselves anymore with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their backslidings, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so they will be my people, and I will be their God. 24And my slave David will be king over them; and all of them will have one shepherd: they will also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them. 25And they will dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my slave, in which your{+} fathers dwelt; and they will dwell in it, they, and their sons, and the sons of their sons, forever: and David my slave will be their prince forever. 26Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will 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. 27My tabernacle also will be with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people. 28And the nations will know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary will be in the midst of them forevermore.