Eze 37:11-24 | ESV | STEP | Then he said to me, Son of man , these bones are the whole house of Israel . Behold , they say , Our bones are dried up , and our hope is lost ; we are indeed cut off .

11 Then he said to me, ^a“Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and ^bour hope is lost; ^cwe are indeed cut off.’ 12 Therefore ^dprophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, ^eI will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people. And ^fI will bring you into the land of Israel. 13 And ^gyou shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people. 14 And ^hI will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I am the Lord; ⁱI have spoken, and I will do it, declares the Lord.”

I Will Be Their God, They Shall Be My People

15 The word of the Lord came to me: 16 ^j“Son of man, ^ktake a stick ^{▼▼Or one piece of wood; also verses 17, 19, 20} and write on it, ‘For ^mJudah, and ⁿthe people of Israel associated with him’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For ^oJoseph (the stick of ^pEphraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him.’ 17 And ^qjoin them one to another into one stick, that ^rthey may become ^sone in your hand. 18 And when ^tyour people say to you, ^u‘Will you not tell us what you mean by these?’ 19 say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am about to take ^vthe stick of Joseph (that is in the hand of Ephraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with him. And I will join with it the ^wstick of Judah, ^{▼▼Hebrew And I will place them on it, the stick of Judah} and ^ymake them one stick, ^zthat they may be one in my hand. 20 When the sticks on which you write are in your hand ^aabefore their eyes, 21 then say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, ^abI will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and ^acbring them to their own land. 22 And ^adI will make them one nation in the land, on ^aethe mountains of Israel. And ^afone king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer ^agtwo nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms. 23 ^ahThey shall not ^aidefile themselves anymore ^ajwith their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But ^akI will save them from all the backslidings ^{▼▼Many Hebrew manuscripts; other Hebrew manuscripts dwellings} in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and ^amthey shall be my people, and I will be their God.

24 “My servant ^anDavid ^aoshall be king over them, and they shall all have ^apone shepherd. ^aqThey shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes.