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OET-RV EZE Chapter 37

OETEZE 37 ©

This is still a very early look into the unfinished text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.

37:1The valley with bleached bones

37One day Yahweh gave me another vision, and he took me out by his spirit and set me down in the middle of a valley that was full of bones. 2Then he led me all around them, and wow, there were so many bones in the valley, and they were totally dried out! 3“Humanity’s child,” he asked me, “can these bones can become living people again?”

“My master Yahweh,” I replied, “only you would know that.”

4Then he told me, “Prophesy over these bones and tell them, ‘Dry bones. Listen to Yahweh’s message. 5The master Yahweh says this to these bones: Listen, I’m about to put breath into you all, and you’ll live. 6I’ll connect sinews to you and put flesh onto you. I’ll cover you all with skin and put breath into you so you’ll live. Then you’ll all know that I am Yahweh.’ ”

7So I prophesied as I was instructed, and wow, a sound like something rattling started as the bones moved together—bone against bone! 8I looked and, more wow, the bones now had sinews on them, and flesh grew up over that then skin covered them! But there was still no breath in them.

9Then Yahweh told me, “Prophesy to the wind. Humanity’s child, prophesy and tell the air, ‘The master Yahweh commands this: Breath, come from the four compass points, and breathe into these who’ve been killed, so they’ll come to life.’ ”

10So I prophesied just like I was commanded. Then breath came into them and they came to life. Then they stood on their feet—a very large army.

11Then Yahweh informed me, “Humanity’s child, these bones are the entire Israeli population. Listen, they’re saying, ‘Our bones have dried up and our hope is gone. We’ve been cut off.’ 12Therefore prophesy and tell them, ‘The master Yahweh says this: Listen, I’ll open your graves and lift you out from them, my people, then I’ll bring you back to Yisrael. 13Then when I open your graves and bring you out of them, you’ll all know that I am Yahweh, my people. 14I’ll place my spirit within you all so you’ll live, and I’ll cause you to rest in your land when you know that I am Yahweh. I declare and will do it. That is Yahweh’s declaration.’ ”

37:15The two sticks indicating unity of Yisrael and Yehudah

15Then Yahweh gave me another message: 16So now, humanity’s child, take a stick for yourself and write on it, ‘For Yehudah and for all their associated people.’ Then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Yisrael (represented by Yosef (Joseph), the branch of Efrayim), and for all their associated people.’ 17Then hold both of them together so that they seem like one stick in your hand. 18When your people ask you and insist, ‘Aren’t you going to tell us what these props of yours mean?’ 19then tell them, ‘The master Yahweh says this: Look, I’m taking the branch of Yosef that’s in Efrayim’s hand along with the tribes of Yisrael his companions, and joining it to the branch of Yehudah, so that they’ll make one branch, and they’ll become one in my hand.’

20Hold the branches in your hand that you wrote on while they watched. 21Tell the people, ‘The master Yahweh says this: Look, I’m about to take the Israeli people out from the nations where they went. I’ll gather them from the surrounding lands and bring them back to their land. 22I’ll unite them as a single nation in the land, on the mountains of Yisrael, and there’ll be one king as king over all of them, and they’ll no longer be two nations—they’ll no longer be divided into two kingdoms. 23Then they’ll no longer defile themselves with their idols, with their disgusting things, or with any of their other sins. I will save them from all of their faithless actions[fn] with which they’ve sinned, and I’ll purify them so they’ll be my people and I will be their God. 24My servant David will be king over them, so there’ll be one shepherd over them all, and they’ll follow my instructions and keep my regulations and obey them.[ref] 25They’ll live in the land that I’ve given to my servant Yakov (Jacob, also called Yisrael/Israel), where your ancestors had stayed. They’ll live in it forever—they, their children, and their grandchildren, and my servant David will be their permanent leader. 26I’ll establish a peace treaty with them—a never-ending agreement with them. I’ll establish them and multiply them and set my sacred place among them forever. 27My residence will be with them—I’ll be their God, and they’ll be my people.[ref] 28Then the other nations will know that I am Yahweh who sets Yisrael apart, when my sacred place is permanently among them.’ ”


37:23 The Hebrew text has ‘living places’ rather than ‘faithless actions’ (from the Septuagint), but it’s difficult to make sense of the Hebrew.


37:24: Eze 34:24.

37:27: 2Cor 6:16; Rev 21:3.

OETEZE 37 ©

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