Ezekiel:37:15-28
rsv@Ezekiel:37:15 @ The word of the LORD came to me:
rsv@Ezekiel:37:16 @ "Son of man, take a stick and write on it, `For Judah, and the children of Israel associated with him'; then take another stick and write upon it, `For Joseph (the stick of E'phraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him';
rsv@Ezekiel:37:17 @ and join them together into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.
rsv@Ezekiel:37:18 @ And when your people say to you, `Will you not show us what you mean by these?'
rsv@Ezekiel:37:19 @ say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am about to take the stick of Joseph (which is in the hand of E'phraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with him; and I will join with it the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, that they may be one in my hand.
rsv@Ezekiel:37:20 @ When the sticks on which you write are in your hand before their eyes,
rsv@Ezekiel:37:21 @ then say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all sides, and bring them to their own land;
rsv@Ezekiel:37:22 @ and I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all; and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.
rsv@Ezekiel:37:23 @ They shall not defile themselves any more with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
rsv@Ezekiel:37:24 @ "My servant David shall be king over them; and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall follow my ordinances and be careful to observe my statutes.
rsv@Ezekiel:37:25 @ They shall dwell in the land where your fathers dwelt that I gave to my servant Jacob; they and their children and their children's children shall dwell there for ever; and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.
rsv@Ezekiel:37:26 @ I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will bless them and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
rsv@Ezekiel:37:27 @ My dwelling place shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
rsv@Ezekiel:37:28 @ Then the nations will know that I the LORD sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary is in the midst of them for evermore."
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