Chapter 37

By dead bones rising to life (which also signifieth the general resurrection) ℣.11 is prophesied the reduction of the Jews from captivity: ℣.15 the Kingdoms of Juda and Israel shall be reduced into one Kingdom: ℣.23 in figure that all Nations shall be united in Christ.

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   The hand of our Lord was made upon me, and brought me forth in the spirit of our Lord: and left me in the midst of a field, that was full of bones.

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   And he led me about through them on every side: and there were very many upon the face of the field, and exceeding dry.

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   And he said to me: Son of man, thinkest thou these bones shall live? And I said, Lord God, thou knowest.

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   And he said to me: Prophesy of these bones: and thou shalt say to them: Dry bones hear ye the word of our Lord.

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   Thus saith our Lord God to these bones: Behold I will put spirit into you, and you shall live.

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   And I will give sinews upon you, and will make flesh to grow up over you, and will stretch a skin on you: and I will give you spirit, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

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   And I prophesied as he had commanded me: and there was made a sound when I prophesied, and behold a commotion: and bones came to bones, every one to his juncture.

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   And I saw, and behold upon them sinews, and flesh was grown up: and a skin was stretched out in them above, and they had no spirit.

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   And he said to me: prophesy to the spirit, prophesy son of man, & thou shalt say to the spirit: Thus saith our Lord God: Come spirit from the four winds, and blow upon these slain, and let them be revived.

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    And I prophesied as he had commanded me: and spirit entered into them, and they lived: and they stood upon their feet, an army passing great.

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    And he said to me: Son of man: All these bones, are the house of Israel: They say: our bones are withered, our hope is perished, and we are cut off.

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    Therefore prophesy, and thou shalt say to them: Thus saith our Lord God: Behold I will open your graves, and will bring you out of your sepulchres o my people: and will bring you into the land of Israel

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    And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have opened your sepulchres, & shall have brought you out of your graves o my people:

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    and shall have given my spirit in you, & you shall live, & I shall make you rest upon your ground: & you shall know that I, the Lord have spoken & done it, saith our Lord God.

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    And the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:

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    And thou son of man, take thee one piece of wood, and write upon it: Of Juda, & of the children of Israel his fellows: & take an other piece of wood, & write upon it: Of Joseph the wood of Ephraim, and of all the house of Israel, and of his fellows.

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    And join them, one to the other for thee into one piece of wood, and they shall be into an union in thy hand.

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    And when the children of thy people shall say to thee speaking: Doest thou not declare unto us what thou meanest by these?

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    Thou shalt speak to them: Thus saith our Lord God: Behold I will take the piece of wood of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, & the tribes of Israel, that are adjoined to him: and I will give them together with the piece of wood of Juda, and will make them into one piece of wood: and they shall be one in his hand.

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    And the pieces of wood whereupon thou shalt write, in thy hand, shall be before their eyes.

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    And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith our Lord God: Behold I will take the children of Israel out of the midst of the nations, to which they are gone: and I will gather them together on every side, and will bring them to their ground.

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    And I will make them into one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel, and there shall be one king ruling over them all: & they shall no more be two nations, neither shall they be divided any more into two kingdoms.

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    Neither shall they be polluted any more in their idols, & their abominations, and all their iniquities, & I will save them out of all the seats, in which they have sinned & I will cleanse them: & they shall be my people, & I will be their God.

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    And my servant David king over them, & there shall be one Pastor of them all, they shall walk in my judgements, and shall keep my commandments, and shall do them.

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    And they shall dwell upon the land, which I gave to my servant Jacob, wherein your fathers dwelt, and they shall dwell upon it, themselves, & their children, & their children's children, even for ever: & David my servant their Prince for ever.

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    And I will make a league of peace to them, an everlasting covenant shall be to them: and I will found them, & will multiply them, and will give my sanctification in the midst of them for ever.

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    And my tabernacle shall be in them: & I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

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    And the Gentiles shall know that I am the Lord the sanctifier of Israel, when my sanctification shall be in the midst of them for ever.