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cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezekiel/36.htm" title="Ezekiel 36">◄</a> Ezekiel 37 <a href="../ezekiel/38.htm" title="Ezekiel 38">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Douay-Rheims Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">The Valley of Dry Bones</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me forth in the spirit of the Lord: and set me down in the midst of a plain that was full of bones. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And he led me about through them on every side: now they were very many upon the face of the plain, and they were exceeding dry. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And he said to me: Son of man, dost thou think these bones shall live and I answered: O Lord God, thou knowest. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And he said to me: Prophesy concerning these bones; and say to them: Ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Thus saith the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will send spirit into you, and you shall live. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to grow over you, and will cover you with skin: and I will give you spirit and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And I prophesied as he had commanded me: and as I prophesied there was a noise, and behold a commotion: and the bones came together, each one, its joint. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And I saw, and behold the sinews, and the flesh came up upon them: and the skin was stretched out over them, but there was no spirit in them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he said to me: Prophesy to the spirit, prophesy, O son of man, and say to the spirit: Thus saith the Lord God: Come, spirit, from the four winds, and blow upon these slain, and let them live again. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And I prophesied as he had commanded me: and the spirit came into them, and they lived: and they stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.</p> <p class="hdg">The Vision Explained</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And he said to me: Son of man: All these bones are the house of Israel: they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost, and we are cut off. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore prophesy, and say to them: Thus saith the 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have opened your sepulchres, and shall have brought you out of your graves, O my people: <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And shall have put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall make you rest upon your own land: and you shall know that I the Lord have spoken, and done it, saith the Lord God:</p> <p class="hdg">One Nation with One King</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And thou son of man, take thee a stick: and write upon it: Of Juda, and of the children of Israel his associates: and take another stick and write upon it: For Joseph the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, and of his associates. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And join them one to the other into one stick, and they shall become one in thy hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And when the children of thy people shall speak to thee, saying: Wilt thou not tell us what thou meanest by this? <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel that are associated with him, and I will put them together with the stick of Juda, and will make them one stick: and they shall be one in his hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And the sticks whereon thou hast written, shall be in thy hand, before their eyes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will take of the children of Israel from the midst of the nations whither they are gone: and I will gather them on every side, and will bring them to their own land. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And I will make them one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be king over them all: and they shall no more be two nations, neither shall they be divided any more into two kingdoms. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Nor shall they be defiled any more with their idols, nor with their abominations, nor with all their iniquities: and I will save them out of all the places in which they have sinned, and I will cleanse them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And my servant David shall be king over them, and they shall have one shepherd: they shall walk in my judgments, and shall keep my commandments, and shall do them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And they shall dwell in the land which I gave to my servant Jacob, wherein your fathers dwelt, and they shall dwell in it, they and their children, and their children's children, for ever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And I will make a covenant of peace with them, it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will establish them, and will multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for ever. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And my tabernacle shall be with them: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/37-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And the nations shall know that I am the Lord the sanctifier of Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for ever.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Douay Rheims Version - Bishop Challoner Revision<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../ezekiel/36.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Ezekiel 36"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Ezekiel 36" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../ezekiel/38.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' 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