枯骨复活
1耶和华的灵降在我身上，把我带到一个山谷，那里遍地都是骸骨。 2祂领我环绕那些骸骨走了一圈，我见到谷中枯干的骸骨相当多。 3祂对我说：“人子啊，这些骸骨能复活吗？”我说：“主耶和华啊，只有你知道。” 4祂又对我说：“你对这些骸骨发预言说，‘枯骨啊，你们要听耶和华说的话！ 5主耶和华说，我要使气息进入你们里面，你们就必复活过来。 6我必给你们加上筋，使你们长出肉，再包上皮，将气息放在你们里面，你们就复活了。这样，你们就知道我是耶和华。’”
7于是，我便按耶和华的吩咐向枯骨发预言，我正说预言的时候，忽然有震动的声音，骨头便连在了一起。 8我又发现骨头上有了筋，长了肉，包上了皮，只是还没有气息。 9耶和华对我说：“人子啊，你要向风37:9 “风”希伯来文又作“灵”，“气息”。说预言，告诉风，主耶和华这样说，‘风啊，从四方吹来，吹在这些被杀的人身上，使他们复活。’” 10于是，我便按耶和华的吩咐说预言，气息就进入他们里面，他们便复活了，并且站立起来，成为一支大军。
11耶和华对我说：“人子啊，这些骸骨就是所有的以色列人，他们说，‘我们骨头枯干，希望幻灭，彻底完了。’ 12你要说预言，告诉他们，‘主耶和华说，我的子民啊，我要打开你们的坟墓，领你们出来，我要领你们返回以色列。 13我的子民啊，当我这样做的时候，你们就知道我是耶和华。 14我要把我的灵放在你们里面，叫你们复活，安居在自己的土地上，那时你们就知道我耶和华言出必行。这是耶和华说的。’”
15耶和华对我说： 16“人子啊，你拿一根杖来，写上‘犹大和他的以色列同伴’，然后再拿另一根杖，写上‘约瑟，即以法莲，与他的以色列同伴’。 17然后把这两根杖连成一根，拿在手中。 18当你的同胞问你这是什么意思时， 19你就告诉他们，主耶和华这样说，‘我要把约瑟和他的以色列同伴的杖，就是以法莲手中的杖，与犹大的杖在我手中连成一根。’ 20你要拿着这两根写着字的杖让他们看， 21告诉他们，主耶和华这样说，‘我要把以色列的百姓从他们分散的各国招聚起来，领他们回归故土。 22我要使他们在以色列的土地和群山上成为一国，只有一位王统治他们，不再分为两个国家。 23他们不会再因祭拜偶像、行可憎之事而玷污自己，我要从他们犯罪的地方把他们救出来，洗净他们的罪。他们要做我的子民，我要做他们的上帝。
24“‘我的仆人大卫要做王治理他们，成为他们唯一的牧人。他们必恪守我的典章，谨遵我的律例。 25他们要安居在我赐给我仆人雅各的土地上，就是你们祖先居住的地方。他们世世代代都要居住在那里，我仆人大卫要永远做他们的王。 26我要与他们订立永存的平安之约，使他们安居，人丁兴旺。我的圣所要永远设立在他们当中。 27我要住在他们中间。我要做他们的上帝，他们要做我的子民。 28各国的人看见我的圣所永远设立在他们当中，便会知道是我耶和华使以色列圣洁了。’”
1The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, 2And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.37.2 valley: or, champaign 3And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. 4Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. 5Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: 6And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 7So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. 8And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them. 9Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.37.9 wind: or, breath 10So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
11¶ Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. 12Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. 13And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, 14And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
15¶ The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 16Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions: 17And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
18¶ And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these? 19Say unto 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 his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
20¶ And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes. 21And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: 22And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all: 23Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. 24And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. 25And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. 26Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. 27My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
