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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Ezekiel 37 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ezekiel/37.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ezekiel/37-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Ezekiel 37</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" 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">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/ezekiel/37.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">A Valley of Dry Bones</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The LORD took hold of me, and I was carried away by the Spirit of the LORD to a valley filled with bones. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He led me all around among the bones that covered the valley floor. They were scattered everywhere across the ground and were completely dried out. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then he asked me, “Son of man, can these bones become living people again?”</p><p class="reg">“O Sovereign LORD,” I replied, “you alone know the answer to that.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then he said to me, “Speak a prophetic message to these bones and say, ‘Dry bones, listen to the word of the LORD! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look! I am going to put breath into you and make you live again! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I will put flesh and muscles on you and cover you with skin. I will put breath into you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So I spoke this message, just as he told me. Suddenly as I spoke, there was a rattling noise all across the valley. The bones of each body came together and attached themselves as complete skeletons. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then as I watched, muscles and flesh formed over the bones. Then skin formed to cover their bodies, but they still had no breath in them.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then he said to me, “Speak a prophetic message to the winds, son of man. Speak a prophetic message and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come, O breath, from the four winds! Breathe into these dead bodies so they may live again.’”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So I spoke the message as he commanded me, and breath came into their bodies. They all came to life and stood up on their feet—a great army.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones represent the people of Israel. They are saying, ‘We have become old, dry bones—all hope is gone. Our nation is finished.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore, prophesy to them and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: O my people, I will open your graves of exile and cause you to rise again. Then I will bring you back to the land of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>When this happens, O my people, you will know that I am the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live again and return home to your own land. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken, and I have done what I said. Yes, the LORD has spoken!’”</p><p class="hdg">Reunion of Israel and Judah</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Again a message came to me from the LORD: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“Son of man, take a piece of wood and carve on it these words: ‘This represents Judah and its allied tribes.’ Then take another piece and carve these words on it: ‘This represents Ephraim and the northern tribes of Israel.’<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Now hold them together in your hand as if they were one piece of wood. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>When your people ask you what your actions mean, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will take Ephraim and the northern tribes and join them to Judah. I will make them one piece of wood in my hand.’</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“Then hold out the pieces of wood you have inscribed, so the people can see them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And give them this message from the Sovereign LORD: I will gather the people of Israel from among the nations. I will bring them home to their own land from the places where they have been scattered. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>I will unify them into one nation on the mountains of Israel. One king will rule them all; no longer will they be divided into two nations or into two kingdoms. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>They will never again pollute themselves with their idols<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> and vile images and rebellion, for I will save them from their sinful apostasy.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> I will cleanse them. Then they will truly be my people, and I will be their God.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“My servant David will be their king, and they will have only one shepherd. They will obey my regulations and be careful to keep my decrees. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>They will live in the land I gave my servant Jacob, the land where their ancestors lived. They and their children and their grandchildren after them will live there forever, generation after generation. And my servant David will be their prince forever. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And I will make a covenant of peace with them, an everlasting covenant. I will give them their land and increase their numbers,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> and I will put my Temple among them forever. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>I will make my home among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/37-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And when my Temple is among them forever, the nations will know that I am the LORD, who makes Israel holy.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">37:16 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">This is Ephraim’s wood, representing Joseph and all the house of Israel;</span><span class="ft"> similarly in 37:19.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">37:23a </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term (literally </span><span class="it">round things</span><span class="ft">) probably alludes to dung.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">37:23b </span><span class="ft">As in many Hebrew manuscripts and Greek version; Masoretic Text reads </span><span class="it">from all their dwelling places where they sinned.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">37:26 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">I will give them and increase their numbers;</span><span class="ft"> Greek version lacks the entire phrase.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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