Ezekiel 37:15-28

I Will Be Their God, They Shall Be My People

15The word of the Lord came to me: 16 aSon of man, btake a stick
Or one piece of wood; also verses 17, 19, 20
and write on it, ‘For dJudah, and ethe people of Israel associated with him’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For fJoseph (the stick of gEphraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him.’
17And hjoin them one to another into one stick, that ithey may become jone in your hand. 18And when kyour people say to you, l‘Will you not tell us what you mean by these?’ 19say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am about to take mthe 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 nstick of Judah,
Hebrew  And I will place them on it, the stick of Judah
and pmake them one stick, qthat they may be one in my hand.
20When the sticks on which you write are in your hand rbefore their eyes, 21then say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, sI will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and tbring them to their own land. 22And uI will make them one nation in the land, on vthe mountains of Israel. And wone king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer xtwo nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms. 23 yThey shall not zdefile themselves anymore aawith their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But abI will save them from all the backslidings
Many Hebrew manuscripts; other Hebrew manuscripts dwellings
in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and adthey shall be my people, and I will be their God.

24“My servant aeDavid afshall be king over them, and they shall all have agone shepherd. ahThey shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes. 25 aiThey shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children’s children shall dwell there ajforever, and David my servant shall be their prince akforever. 26 alI will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be aman everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land
Hebrew lacks  in their land
and aomultiply them, and will apset my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.
27 aqMy dwelling place shall be with them, arand I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28Then asthe nations will know that atI am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when aumy sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”

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