Ezekiel 37:11-24

11Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the 1entire house of Israel; behold, they say, ‘Our 2bones are dried up and our hope has perished. We are 3completely 4cut off.’ 12Therefore prophesy and say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “Behold, I am going to open your graves and 5cause you to come up out of your graves, My people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel. 13Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up out of your graves, My people. 14And I will 6put My 7Spirit within you and you will come to life, and I will place you on your own land. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken and done it,” declares the Lord.’”

15The word of the Lord came again to me, saying, 16“Now you, son of man, take for yourself 8one stick and write on it, ‘For 9Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For 10Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.’ 17Then 11put them together for yourself one to another into one stick, so that they may become one in your hand. 18And when the sons of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Will you not declare to us 12what 13you mean by these?’ 19say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “Behold, I am going to take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand.”’ 20The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes. 21And say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “Behold, I am going to 14take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; 22and I will make them 15one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and 16one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations, and no longer be divided into two kingdoms. 23They will 17no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their offenses; but 18I will rescue them from all their 19dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God.

24“And My servant 20David will be king over them, and they will all have 21one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances, and keep My statutes and 22follow them.