Ezekiel 37 Cross References - MLV

¹ The hand of Jehovah was upon me and he brought me out in the Spirit of Jehovah and set me down in the midst of the valley and it was full of bones.
² And he caused me to pass by them all around. And behold, there were very many in the open valley, and behold, they were very dry. ³ And he said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O lord Jehovah, you know.
⁴ Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones and say to them, O you* dry bones, hear the word of Jehovah. ⁵ The lord Jehovah says thus to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you* and you* will live. ⁶ And I will lay muscles upon you* and will bring up flesh upon you* and cover you* with skin and put breath in you* and you* will live.
And you* will know that I am Jehovah.
⁷ So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, an earthquake and the bones came together, bone to its bone. ⁸ And I beheld, and behold, there were muscles upon them and flesh came up and skin covered them above, but there was no breath in them.
⁹ Then he said to me, Prophesy to the wind. Prophesy, son of man and say to the wind, The lord Jehovah says thus: Come from the four winds, O breath and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
¹⁰ So I prophesied as he commanded me and the breath came into them and they lived and stood up upon their feet, an exceedingly great army.
¹¹ Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried up and our hope is lost. We are clean cut off.
¹² Therefore prophesy and say to them, The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I will open your* graves and cause you* to come up out of your* graves, O my people and I will bring you* into the land of Israel.
¹³ And you* will know that I am Jehovah when I have opened your* graves and caused you* to come up out of your* graves, O my people. ¹⁴ And I will put my Spirit in you* and you* will live. And I will place you* in your* own land. And you* will know that I, Jehovah, have spoken it and performed it, says Jehovah.
¹⁵ The word of Jehovah came again to me, saying, ¹⁶ And you, son of man, take one stick and write upon it, For Judah and for the sons 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. ¹⁷ And join them one to another into one stick for yourself, that they may become one in your hand.
¹⁸ And when the sons of your people will speak to you, saying, Will you not show us what you mean by these? ¹⁹ say to them, The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I will 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, even with the stick of Judah and make them one stick and they will be one in my hand. ²⁰ And the sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.
²¹ And say to them, The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone and will gather them on every side and bring them into their own land. ²² And I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel and one king will be king to them all. And they will no more be two nations, nor will they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
²³ Neither will 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 dwelling-places in which they have sinned and will cleanse them. So they will be my people and I will be their God.
²⁴ And my servant David will be king over them and they all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances and observe my statutes and do them. ²⁵ And they will dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your* fathers dwelt. And they will dwell in it, they and their sons and their son's sons, everlasting. And David my servant will be their ruler everlasting.
²⁶ Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them and I will place them and multiply them and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them everlasting. ²⁷ My tabernacle will also be with them and I will be their God and they will be my people.
²⁸ And the nations will know that I am Jehovah, who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary will be in the midst of them everlasting.

¹² And it will happen, as soon as I have gone from you, that the Spirit of Jehovah will carry you where I do not know. And so when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me. But I your servant fear Jehovah from my youth.

¹⁶ And they said to him, Behold now, there are fifty strong men with your servants. Please let them go and seek your master, lest the Spirit of Jehovah has taken him up and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, You* will not send.

³² Therefore, behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that it will no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter. For they will bury in Topheth, till there is no place to bury.

² And they will spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served and after which they have walked and which they have sought and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered, nor be buried. They will be for manure upon the face of the earth.

³ the word of Jehovah came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar and the hand of Jehovah was there upon him.

¹⁴ So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away. And I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit and the hand of Jehovah was strong upon me.

²² And the hand of Jehovah was there upon me and he said to me, Arise, go forth into the plain and I will talk with you there.

³ And he put forth the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head. And the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north, where the seat of the image of jealousy was, which provokes to jealousy.

²⁴ And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to those of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.

²² Now the hand of Jehovah had been upon me in the evening, before he who escaped came. And he had opened my mouth until he came to me in the morning. And my mouth was opened and I was no more mute.

¹ In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck, in the same day, the hand of Jehovah was upon me and he brought me there.

¹ Now full of the Holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan, and was being led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

³⁹ Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord seized Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, for he was traveling on his way rejoicing.

¹⁰ I became in the spirit on the Lord’s day and I heard behind me a loud voice, like that of a trumpet

³⁰ Are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?

⁷ Like plowing and furrowing the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

¹¹ Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried up and our hope is lost. We are clean cut off.

²⁹ Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

³⁹ See now that I, even I, am he and there is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. And there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

⁶ Jehovah kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up.

²¹ For just-like the Father raises up the dead and is giving-life to them, so the Son also is giving-life to whom he wills.

⁵ Therefore Jesus, having lifted up his eyes and having seen that a large crowd is coming toward him, says to Philip, From where will we be buying bread, in order that these might eat? ⁶ But he said this, testing him; for he himself knew what he was about to do.

²⁵ Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, even if he dies, he will be living; ²⁶ and everyone who is living and believes in me may never die–forever. Do you believe this?

⁸ Why is it judged as unbelievable with you, if God is raising the dead?

¹⁷ (as it has been written, ‘I have placed you as a father of many nations’), in front of God, the one whom he believed, who is giving-life to the dead and is calling the things which are not, as though they are.

⁹ But, we ourselves have had the verdict of death in ourselves, in order that we should not have confidence in ourselves, but in God, who is raising up the dead; ¹⁰ who rescued us out of so-great a death and is rescuing us; in whom we have hoped that he will also still be rescuing us.

¹⁹ Having reasoning that God is able to raise him up even from the dead; from where he also got him back in a figure.

⁸ Take the rod and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water and you will bring forth water to them out of the rock. So you will give the congregation and their cattle drink.

² And he cried against the altar by the word of Jehovah and said, O altar, altar, Jehovah says thus: Behold, a son will be born to the house of David, Josiah by name. And upon you will he sacrifice the priests of the high places that burn incense upon you and men's bones they will burn upon you.

¹⁹ Your dead will live. My dead bodies will arise. Awake and sing, you* who dwell in the dust, for your dew is as the dew of herbs and the earth will cast forth the dead.

¹⁸ Hear, you* deaf and look, you* blind, that you* may see.

²⁹ O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Jehovah.

¹ And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, You* mountains of Israel, hear the word of Jehovah.

¹⁵ The word of Jehovah came again to me, saying, ¹⁶ And you, son of man, take one stick and write upon it, For Judah and for the sons 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.

² Hear, O you* mountains, Jehovah's controversy and you* enduring foundations of the earth, for Jehovah has a controversy with his people and he will contend with Israel.

²¹ Now Jesus answered and said to them, Assuredly I am saying to you, If you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only be doing the miracle of the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, Be lifted up and cast yourself into the sea, it will happen.

⁵ His mother says to the servants, If he says anything to you, do it.

²⁵ Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, The hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

²⁸ Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will be hearing his voice, ²⁹ and will travel out; those who have practiced good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

⁷ And Jehovah God formed man out of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.

²⁹ You hide your face, they are troubled. You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
³⁰ You send forth your Spirit, they are created and you renew the face of the ground.

⁹ Then he said to me, Prophesy to the wind. Prophesy, son of man and say to the wind, The lord Jehovah says thus: Come from the four winds, O breath and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
¹⁰ So I prophesied as he commanded me and the breath came into them and they lived and stood up upon their feet, an exceedingly great army.

¹⁴ And I will put my Spirit in you* and you* will live. And I will place you* in your* own land. And you* will know that I, Jehovah, have spoken it and performed it, says Jehovah.

²² And after having said this, he infused them and says to them, Receive the Holy Spirit.

² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free away from the law of sin and of death.

⁵ even when we were dead through our trespasses, he made us alive together with the Christ; you are saved in his grace.

⁶ You* have not eaten bread, neither have you* drunk wine or strong drink, that you* may know that I am Jehovah your* God.

²⁸ And a man of God came near and spoke to the King of Israel and said, Jehovah says thus, Because the Syrians have said, Jehovah is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys, therefore I will deliver all this great multitude into your hand and you* will know that I am Jehovah.

²³ And kings will be your nursing fathers and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth and lick the dust of your feet. And you will know that I am Jehovah and those who wait for me will not be put to shame.

⁷ And the slain will fall in the midst of you*.
And you* will know that I am Jehovah.

¹³ And you* will know that I am Jehovah, when their slain men will be among their idols all around their altars, upon every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains and under every green tree and under every thick oak, the places where they offered sweet aroma to all their idols.

⁴ And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity. But I will bring your ways upon you and your abominations will be in the midst of you.
And you* will know that I am Jehovah.

⁹ And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will bring upon you according to your ways. And your abominations will be in the midst of you.
And you* will know that I, Jehovah, do kill*.

¹⁰ You* will fall by the sword. I will judge you* in the border of Israel.
And you* will know that I am Jehovah.

¹² and you* will know that I am Jehovah. For you* have not walked in my statutes, nor have you* executed my ordinances, but have done according to the ordinances of the nations that are all around you*.

³⁸ And I will purge out from among you* the rebels and those who transgress against me. I will bring them forth out of the land where they journey, but they will not enter into the land of Israel.
And you* will know that I am Jehovah.

²² and say, The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I am against you, O Sidon. And I will be glorified in the midst of you.
And they will know that I am Jehovah, when I will have executed judgments in her and will be made holy in her. ²³ For I will send pestilence into her and blood into her streets. And the wounded will fall in the midst of her, with the sword upon her on every side.
And they will know that I am Jehovah.
²⁴ And there will no more be a prickling brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any who are all around them, who did spite to them.
And they will know that I am the lord Jehovah.
²⁵ The lord Jehovah says thus: When I will have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered and will be made holy in them in the sight of the nations, then they will dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob.
²⁶ And they will dwell securely in it. Yes, they will build houses and plant vineyards and will dwell securely, when I have executed judgments upon all those who do them spite all around them.
And they will know that I am Jehovah their God.

¹⁵ When I will make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land destitute of that of which it was full, when I will kill* all those who dwell in it, then they will know that I am Jehovah.

²⁷ And the tree of the field will yield its fruit and the earth will yield its increase and they will be secure in their land. And they will know that I am Jehovah when I have broken the bars of their yoke and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made bondmen of them.

⁹ I will make you a everlasting desolation and your cities will not be inhabited.
And you* will know that I am Jehovah.

¹² And you will know that I, Jehovah, have heard all your revilings which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate. They are given us to devour.

¹⁵ As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, O Mount Seir and all Edom, even all of it. And they will know that I am Jehovah.

²³ And I will magnify myself and sanctify myself and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations. And they will know that I am Jehovah.

⁶ And I will send a fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the isles.
And they will know that I am Jehovah.

²² So the house of Israel will know that I am Jehovah their God, from that day and forward.

²⁸ And they will know that I am Jehovah their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity among the nations and have gathered them to their own land. And I will leave none of them any more there,

²⁷ And you* will know that I am in the midst of Israel and that I am Jehovah your* God and there is none else. And my people will not be put to shame, everlasting.

¹⁷ So you* will know that I am Jehovah your* God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy and no strangers will pass through her any more.

¹¹ And he said, Go forth and stand upon the mountain before Jehovah. And behold, Jehovah passed by and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before Jehovah, but Jehovah was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but Jehovah was not in the earthquake. ¹² And after the earthquake a fire, but Jehovah was not in the fire. And after the fire a still small voice.
¹³ And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. And behold, there came a voice to him and said, What are you doing here, Elijah?

⁵ So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as Jehovah commanded me.
⁶ And it happened after many days, that Jehovah said to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates and take the sash from there, which I commanded you to hide there. ⁷ Then I went to the Euphrates and dug and took the sash from the place where I had hid it. And behold, the sash was rotten. It was good for nothing.

⁸ And it happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Jehovah had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying, You will surely die.

² And suddenly there became a noise from heaven just-like the bringing of a violent wind and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

³⁷ Now when they heard this, they were pierced in their heart and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, Brethren, what shall we do?

¹⁹ But Peter and John answered and said to them, Judge for yourselves if it is righteous in God’s sight to listen to you rather than to God.

²⁰ Travel, and when you stand in the temple, speak to the people all the words of this life. ²¹ Now having heard this, they entered into the temple under the light of daybreak and were teaching.
But the high-priest came and those who were together with him and called the Sanhedrin together and the Elderly-Council of the sons of Israel and sent to the prison to have them led out. ²² But the attendants who came did not find them in the prison. Now having turned back, they reported, ²³ saying, We indeed found the prison, having been locked with all the security intact, and the guards standing outside before the doors, but having opened it, we found no one inside. ²⁴ Now as both the magistrate of the temple and the priest heard these words and with the high-priests, they were perplexed concerning them and whatever had happened.
²⁵ But someone, having come, reported to them, Behold, the men, whom you placed in the prison yourselves, are in the temple standing and teaching the people. ²⁶ Then the magistrate went together with the attendants and led them, but without violence; for they were fearing the people (that they might not be stoned). ²⁷ Now having led them, they stood them in front of the council. And the high-priest asked them, ²⁸ saying, Did we command you with a strict command to not teach in this name? And behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and are planning to bring this man’s blood upon us.
²⁹ But Peter and the apostles answered and said, It is essential for us to obey God rather than men.

²⁶ and suddenly there became a great earthquake, so-that the foundations of the prison were shaken, and instantly all the doors were opened and everyone’s bonds were lax. ²⁷ But the jailor, came out of sleep and saw the doors of the prison had been open, drew his sword and was about to assassinate himself, supposing the prisoners to have fled. ²⁸ But Paul shouted with a loud voice, saying, Do nothing evil to yourself; for we are all here.
²⁹ Now when he asked for lights, he dashed in and came in trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,

³⁰ You send forth your Spirit, they are created and you renew the face of the ground.

¹⁶ Awake, O north wind and come, you south, breathe upon my garden, that the spices of it may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden and eat his precious fruits.

⁵ The lord Jehovah says thus to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you* and you* will live.

⁸ The Spirit is blowing where he wills and you hear his voice, but do not know from where he is coming and where he is going, so is everyone who has been born from the Spirit.

¹¹ And after the three and a half days the spirit of life from God entered into them and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon those who view them.

⁴ And I saw thrones and they sat upon them and judgment was given to them and I saw the souls of those who have been decapitated because of the testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who did not worship the beast, nor his image and did not receive the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand, and they lived and reigned with Christ the thousand years. ⁵ And the rest of the dead did not live till the thousand years might be completed. This is the first resurrection.

¹² And the sons of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone. ¹³ Every man who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of Jehovah, dies. Shall we all of us perish?

⁷ Will the Lord cast off everlasting? And will he be favorable no more? ⁸ Has his loving kindness ceased forever? Does his promise come to an end in this generation? ⁹ Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he shut up his tender mercies in anger? Selah.

²⁷ Why do you say, O Jacob and speak, O Israel, My way is hid from Jehovah. And the justice due to me is passed away from my God?

¹⁴ But Zion said, Jehovah has forsaken me and the Lord has forgotten me.

²⁵ Withhold your foot from being unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers and after them I will go.

¹ At that time, says Jehovah, I will be the God of all the families of Israel and they will be my people.

²⁴ Do you not consider what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which Jehovah chose, he has cast them off? Thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
²⁵ Jehovah says thus: If my covenant of day and night stand not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth, ²⁶ then I will also cast away the seed of Jacob and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. For I will cause their captivity to return and will have mercy on them.

⁵⁴ Waters flowed over my head. I said, I am cut off.

¹⁰ And I will multiply men upon you*, all the house of Israel, even all of it and the cities will be inhabited and the waste places will be built.

¹ The hand of Jehovah was upon me and he brought me out in the Spirit of Jehovah and set me down in the midst of the valley and it was full of bones.
² And he caused me to pass by them all around. And behold, there were very many in the open valley, and behold, they were very dry. ³ And he said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O lord Jehovah, you know.
⁴ Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones and say to them, O you* dry bones, hear the word of Jehovah. ⁵ The lord Jehovah says thus to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you* and you* will live. ⁶ And I will lay muscles upon you* and will bring up flesh upon you* and cover you* with skin and put breath in you* and you* will live.
And you* will know that I am Jehovah.
⁷ So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, an earthquake and the bones came together, bone to its bone. ⁸ And I beheld, and behold, there were muscles upon them and flesh came up and skin covered them above, but there was no breath in them.

¹⁶ And you, son of man, take one stick and write upon it, For Judah and for the sons 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.

¹⁹ say to them, The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I will 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, even with the stick of Judah and make them one stick and they will be one in my hand.

²⁵ Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Now I will bring back the captivity of Jacob and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel. And I will be jealous for my holy name.

¹¹ And the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel will be gathered together and they will appoint themselves one head and will go up from the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.

²⁶ and thus all spiritual Israel will be saved, just-as it has been written, ‘There will come out of Zion, he who rescues and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ is holding us together with him, having judged this thing: if one died on behalf of all, consequently, all died;

¹ Even you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

¹ Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and put it also in writing, saying, ² Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has Jehovah, the God of heaven, given me and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

¹⁴ How much less when you say that you do not behold him. The case is before him and you wait for him!
¹⁵ But now, because he has not visited in his anger, nor does he regard transgression well,

¹⁴ And you* will see and your* heart will rejoice and your* bones will flourish like the tender grass. And the hand of Jehovah will be known toward his servants and he will have indignation against his enemies.

²⁵ The lord Jehovah says thus: When I will have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered and will be made holy in them in the sight of the nations, then they will dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob.

²⁴ For I will take you* from among the nations and gather you* out of all the countries and will bring you* into your* own land.

²¹ And say to them, The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone and will gather them on every side and bring them into their own land.

²⁵ And they will dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your* fathers dwelt. And they will dwell in it, they and their sons and their son's sons, everlasting. And David my servant will be their ruler everlasting.

² After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up and we will live before him.

¹⁴ I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death. O death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Repentance will be hid from my eyes.

¹⁴ And I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel and they will build the waste cities and inhabit them and they will plant vineyards and drink the wine of it. They will also make gardens and eat the fruit of them. ¹⁵ And I will plant them upon their land and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them, says Jehovah your God.

¹⁶ Because the Lord himself will be coming down from heaven, in a commanding yell, in the voice of the archangel and at the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be rising up first;

¹³ And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them and they were judged each one according to their works.

² Then our mouth was filled with laughter and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, Jehovah has done great things for them. ³ Jehovah has done great things for us. We are glad.

⁶² And I will establish my covenant with you and you will know that I am Jehovah,

⁶ And I will lay muscles upon you* and will bring up flesh upon you* and cover you* with skin and put breath in you* and you* will live.
And you* will know that I am Jehovah.

¹⁵ until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field and the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest.

¹⁹ And I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within you*. And I will take the stony heart out of their flesh and will give them a heart of flesh,

²⁴ And all the trees of the field will know that I, Jehovah, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree and have made the dry tree to flourish. I, Jehovah, have spoken and have done it.

¹⁴ Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I will deal with you? I, Jehovah, have spoken it and will do it.

²⁷ And I will put my Spirit within you* and cause you* to walk in my statutes and you* will keep my ordinances and do them.

³⁶ Then the nations that are left all aroundyou* will know that I, Jehovah, have built the ruined places and planted what was desolate. I, Jehovah, have spoken it and I will do it.

⁹ Then he said to me, Prophesy to the wind. Prophesy, son of man and say to the wind, The lord Jehovah says thus: Come from the four winds, O breath and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.

²⁹ nor will I hide my face any more from them. For I have poured out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, says the lord Jehovah.

²⁸ And it will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh and your* sons and your* daughters will prophesy. Your* old men will dream dreams. Your* young men will see visions. ²⁹ And also I will pour out my Spirit upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days.

¹⁰ And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication. And they will look to me whom they have pierced. And they will mourn for him, as a man mourns for his only son and will be in bitterness for him, as a man who is in bitterness for his firstborn.

¹⁶ But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel, ¹⁷ God says, ‘And it will be in the last days, I will pour out from My Spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters will prophesy and your young-men will see visions and your elderly-men will dream dreams.

¹¹ But if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus up from the dead is dwelling in you, he who raised the Christ up from the dead will also be giving-life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who is dwelling in you.

⁴⁵ So also it has been written, ‘The first man Adam became a living soul.’The last Adam is giving-life for our spirit.

⁵ he saved us (not from any works done in righteousness, which we practiced), but according to his mercy, through the full-washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, ⁶ which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior;

² Speak to the sons of Israel and take rods from them, one for each father's house, from all their rulers according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods. Write every man's name upon his rod. ³ And you will write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi, for there will be one rod for each head of their fathers' houses.

¹⁶ And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? Neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your* tents, O Israel. Now see to your own house, David. So Israel departed to their tents.
¹⁷ But as for the sons of Israel who dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. ¹⁸ Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram who was over the men subject to forced-labor. And all Israel stoned him to death with stones. And king Rehoboam made speed to get up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. ¹⁹ So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.
²⁰ And it happened, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was returned, that they sent and called him to the congregation and made him king over all Israel. There was none that followed the house of David, but only the tribe of Judah.

¹⁷ But as for the sons of Israel who dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

¹⁹ So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.

¹¹ And he fortified the strongholds and put captains in them and stores of victuals and oil and wine. ¹² And in every city he put shields and spears and made them exceedingly strong. And Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.
¹³ And the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their border. ¹⁴ For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession and came to Judah and Jerusalem. For Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest's office to Jehovah. ¹⁵ And he appointed priests for him for the high places and for the male-goats and for the calves which he had made.
¹⁶ And after them, such as set their hearts to seek Jehovah, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem out of all the tribes of Israel to sacrifice to Jehovah, the God of their fathers. ¹⁷ So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong three years. For they walked three years in the way of David and Solomon.

⁹ And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin and those who traveled with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh and out of Simeon, for they came to him out of Israel in abundance when they saw that Jehovah his God was with him.

¹¹ Nevertheless certain men of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem. ¹² Also the hand of God came upon Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the rulers by the word of Jehovah.
¹³ And many people assembled at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly. ¹⁴ And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem and all the altars for incense they took away and cast them into the brook Kidron.
¹⁵ Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were ashamed and made themselves holy and brought burnt offerings into the house of Jehovah. ¹⁶ And they stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God; the priests sprinkled the blood which they received from the hand of the Levites.
¹⁷ For there were many in the assembly who had not made themselves holy. Therefore the Levites had charge of killing the Passover offerings for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Jehovah. ¹⁸ For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than it is written.
For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, The good Jehovah pardon everyone

¹³ Also the envy of Ephraim will depart and those who besiege Judah will be cut off. Ephraim will not envy Judah and Judah will not besiege Ephraim.

⁴ In those days and in that time, says Jehovah, the sons of Israel will come, they and the sons of Judah together. They will go on their way weeping and will seek Jehovah their God.

²² And I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel and one king will be king to them all. And they will no more be two nations, nor will they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
²³ Neither will 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 dwelling-places in which they have sinned and will cleanse them. So they will be my people and I will be their God.
²⁴ And my servant David will be king over them and they all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances and observe my statutes and do them.

⁹ For then I will turn to the peoples of a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of Jehovah, to serve him with one consent.

⁹ Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, What are you doing?

¹² Say now to the rebellious house, do you* not know what these things mean?
Tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and took the king of it and the rulers of it and brought them to him to Babylon.

⁴⁹ Then I said, Ah lord Jehovah! They say of me, Is he not a speaker of parables?

¹⁹ And the people said to me, Will you not tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?

¹ So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies. And behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their transgression.
² Now the first inhabitants who dwelt in their possessions in their cities were Israelites, the priests, the Levites and the Nethinim.
³ And in Jerusalem dwelt of the sons of Judah and of the sons of Benjamin and of the sons of Ephraim and Manasseh:

¹⁶ And you, son of man, take one stick and write upon it, For Judah and for the sons 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. ¹⁷ And join them one to another into one stick for yourself, that they may become one in your hand.

⁶ And I will strengthen the house of Judah and I will save the house of Joseph and I will bring them back. For I have mercy upon them and they will be as though I had not cast them off. For I am Jehovah their God and I will hear them.

¹³ But now in Christ Jesus you who were previously from afar have become near to him in the blood of the Christ. ¹⁴ For he is our peace, who made us both one and tore-down the middle wall of the fence,

¹¹ where there is no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free man, but Christ is all things and in all things.

⁶ And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel. And all their rulers gave him rods, for each ruler one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods and the rod of Aaron was among their rods. ⁷ And Moses laid up the rods before Jehovah in the tent of the testimony.
⁸ And it happened on the morrow, that Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded and put forth buds and produced blossoms and bore ripe almonds. ⁹ And Moses brought out all the rods from before Jehovah to all the sons of Israel. And they looked and took every man his rod.

³ Therefore, you son of man, prepare stuff for moving and move by day in their sight. And you will move from your place to another place in their sight. It may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.

¹⁰ I have also spoken to the prophets and I have multiplied visions. And I have used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets.

³ that then Jehovah your God will turn your captivity and have compassion upon you and will return and gather you from all the peoples where Jehovah your God has scattered you.
⁴ If any of your outcasts be in the outermost parts of heaven, from there Jehovah your God will gather you and from there he will fetch you.

¹¹ And it will happen in that day, that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, who will remain, from Assyria and from Egypt and from Pathros and from Cush and from Elam and from Shinar and from Hamath and from the islands of the sea. ¹² And he will set up an ensign for the nations and will assemble the outcasts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. ¹³ Also the envy of Ephraim will depart and those who besiege Judah will be cut off. Ephraim will not envy Judah and Judah will not besiege Ephraim. ¹⁴ And they will fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the west. Together they will despoil the sons of the east. They will put forth their hand upon Edom and Moab and the sons of Ammon will obey them.
¹⁵ And Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea. And with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River and will kill* it into seven streams and cause men to march over dry shod. ¹⁶ And there will be a highway for the remnant of his people, who will remain, from Assyria, like as there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

¹² And it will happen in that day, that Jehovah will beat off his fruit, from the flood of the River to the brook of Egypt. And you* will be gathered one by one, O you* sons of Israel. ¹³ And it will happen in that day, that a great trumpet will be blown. And they will come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt. And they will worship Jehovah in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

⁵ Do not fear, for I am with you. I will bring your seed from the east and gather you from the west. ⁶ I will say to the north, Give up and to the south, Do not keep back. Bring my sons from far and my daughters from the end of the earth,

¹² Behold, these will come from far, and behold, these from the north and from the west and these from the land of Sinim.

¹⁵ but, As Jehovah lives who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries where he had driven them. And I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.

³ And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and will bring them again to their folds and they will be fruitful and multiply.

⁸ but, As Jehovah lives, who brought up and who led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country and from all the countries where I had driven them. And they will dwell in their own land.

¹⁴ And I will be found by you*, says Jehovah and I will turn again your* captivity. And I will gather you* from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you*, says Jehovah and I will bring you* again to the place from where I caused you* to be carried away captive.

³ For behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that I will turn again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says Jehovah and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers and they will possess it.

¹⁰ Therefore do not fear, O Jacob my servant, says Jehovah, nor be dismayed, O Israel. For behold, I will save you from afar and your seed from the land of their captivity and Jacob will return and will be quiet and at ease and none will make him afraid.

¹⁸ Jehovah says thus: Behold, I will turn again the captivity of Jacob's tents and have compassion on his dwelling-places. And the city will be built upon its own hill and the palace will be inhabited after its own manner.

⁸ Behold, I will bring them from the north country and gather them from the outermost parts of the earth and with them the blind man and the lame man, the woman with child and she who travails with child together. They will return here a great company.
⁹ They will come with weeping. And I will lead them with supplications. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they will not stumble. For I am a father to Israel and Ephraim is my firstborn.
¹⁰ Hear the word of Jehovah, O you* nations and declare it in the isles afar off and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.

³⁷ Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries where I have driven them in my anger and in my wrath and in great indignation. And I will bring them again to this place and I will cause them to dwell safely.

⁷ And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return and will build them as at the first.

¹¹ the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, Give thanks to Jehovah of hosts, for Jehovah is good, for his loving kindness is everlasting and of those who bring thanksgiving into the house of Jehovah. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, says Jehovah.

¹⁹ And I will bring Israel again to his pasture and he will feed on Carmel and Bashan and his soul will be satisfied upon the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.

¹³ And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and will bring them into their own land. And I will feed them upon the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses and in all the inhabited places of the country.

²⁷ when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of their enemies' lands and am made holy in them in the sight of many nations.

¹⁷ But in Mount Zion there will be those who escape and it will be holy and the house of Jacob will possess their possessions. ¹⁸ And the house of Jacob will be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame and the house of Esau for stubble. And they will burn among them and devour them and there will not be any remaining to the house of Esau, for Jehovah has spoken it.
¹⁹ And those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau and those of the lowland the Philistines. And they will possess the field of Ephraim and the field of Samaria and Benjamin will possess Gilead.
²⁰ And the captives of this host of the sons of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath. And the captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the South. ²¹ And saviors will come up on Mount Zion to judge the mountain of Esau and the kingdom will be Jehovah's.

¹¹ A day for building your walls! In that day the decree will be far removed. ¹² In that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt and from Egypt even to the River and from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.

¹⁰ The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs and to him will the obedience of the peoples be.

⁶ Yet I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

¹² Kiss the Son, lest he is angry and you* perish in the way, because his wrath will soon be kindled. All those who take refuge in him are fortunate.

¹ Give the king your judgments, O God and your righteousness to the king's son.

⁸ He will also have dominion from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth.

⁶ For to us a child is born, to us a son is given. And the government will be upon his shoulder. And his name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.
⁷ Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from hereafter until everlasting. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this.

¹² And he will set up an ensign for the nations and will assemble the outcasts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. ¹³ Also the envy of Ephraim will depart and those who besiege Judah will be cut off. Ephraim will not envy Judah and Judah will not besiege Ephraim.

¹⁸ In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel and they will come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your* fathers.

⁵ Behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch and he will reign as king and deal wisely and will execute justice and righteousness in the land. ⁶ In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will dwell safely. And this is his name by which he will be called: Jehovah our righteousness.

³⁹ And I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them and of their sons after them.

¹⁴ Behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that I will perform that good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah.
¹⁵ In those days and at that time, I will cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David and he will execute justice and righteousness in the land. ¹⁶ In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will dwell safely. And this is the name whereby she will be called: Jehovah our righteousness.
¹⁷ For Jehovah says thus: David will never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel,

²⁶ then I will also cast away the seed of Jacob and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. For I will cause their captivity to return and will have mercy on them.

²³ And I will set up one shepherd over them and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them and he will be their shepherd. ²⁴ And I, Jehovah, will be their God and my servant David ruler among them. I, Jehovah, have spoken it.

²⁴ And my servant David will be king over them and they all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances and observe my statutes and do them.

⁴ For the sons of Israel will abide many days without king and without ruler and without sacrifice and without pillar and without ephod or household-idol. ⁵ Afterward the sons of Israel will return and seek Jehovah their God and David their king and will come with fear to Jehovah and to his goodness in the latter days.

³² He will be great and will be called the Son of the Highest and the Lord God will be giving to him the throne of his father David, ³³ and he will be reigning over the house of Jacob forever, and there will be no end of his kingdom.

¹⁶ And I have other sheep, which are not out of this pen; it is also essential for me to lead those and they will be hearing my voice and there will become one flock, only one shepherd.

¹⁹ Therefore consequently, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens of the holy-ones and members of the household of God, ²⁰ having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Jesus Christ himself being the cornerstone; ²¹ in whom all the building, fitly framed together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord; ²² in whom you are also built together into a residence of God in the Spirit.

¹⁵ And the seventh messenger sounded, and there became loud voices in heaven saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ and he will be reigning forevermore.

⁷ And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you. ⁸ And I will give to you and to your seed after you, the land of your travels, all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession and I will be their God.

⁷ Sanctify yourselves therefore and become you* holy, for I am Jehovah your* God. ⁸ And you* will keep my statutes and do them. I am Jehovah who sanctifies you*.

²⁰ God is to us a God of deliverance and escape from death belongs to Jehovah the Lord.

³⁵ O God, awesome out of your holy places, the God of Israel, he gives strength and power to his people. Praise God.

¹⁸ And the idols will utterly pass away.

³³ But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Jehovah: I will give my laws into their mind and I will write them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people.

³⁸ And they will be my people and I will be their God. ³⁹ And I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them and of their sons after them.

⁴³ And there you* will remember your* ways and all your* practices, by which you* have polluted yourselves. And you* will loathe yourselves in your* own sight for all your* evils that you* have committed.

²⁴ For I will take you* from among the nations and gather you* out of all the countries and will bring you* into your* own land. ²⁵ And I will sprinkle clean water upon you* and you* will be clean. I will cleanse you* from all your* filthiness and from all your* idols.

²⁸ And you* will dwell in the land that I gave to your* fathers and you* will be my people and I will be your* God. ²⁹ And I will save you* from all your* uncleannesses. And I will call for the grain and will multiply it and lay no famine upon you*.

³¹ Then you* will remember your* evil ways and your* practices that were not good. And you* will loathe yourselves in your* own sight for your* iniquities and for your* abominations.

²⁷ My tabernacle will also be with them and I will be their God and they will be my people.

⁷ And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel everlasting. And the house of Israel will no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places, ⁸ in their setting of their threshold by my threshold and their door-post beside my door-post and there was but the wall between me and them. And they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed. Therefore I have consumed them in my anger.

¹⁰ Yet the number of the sons of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered. And it will happen that, in the place where it was said to them, You* are not my people, it will be said to them, The sons of the living God.

⁸ Ephraim will say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered and will regard him. I am like a green fir tree. From me, your fruit is found.

¹⁴ Feed your people with your rod, the flock of your heritage, which dwell solitarily in the forest in the midst of Carmel. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

¹ In that day there will be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness. ² And it will happen in that day, says Jehovah of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land and they will no more be remembered. And I will also cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

⁹ And I will bring the third part into the fire and will refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tried. They will call on my name and I will hear them. I will say, It is my people and they will say, Jehovah is my God.

²¹ Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Jehovah of hosts. And all those who sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in it. And in that day there will be no more a Canaanite in the house of Jehovah of hosts.

²⁶ in order that he might make her holy, having cleansed her in the full-washing of the water in the word, ²⁷ in order that he might present her to himself, the glorious congregation, not having stain or wrinkle or any such things, but in order that she should be holy and unblemished.

¹³ For if the blood of male-goats and oxen and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling those who have been desecrated, makes one holy toward the cleanness of the flesh; ¹⁴ how much more the blood of Christ, (who through the everlasting Spirit offered himself unblemished to God), will be cleansing your conscience from dead works, that you may give-divine service to the living God.

⁷ But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son is cleansing us from every sin.

⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

³ And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men and he will be residing with them and they will be his people and God will be with them. ⁴ And he will be wiping-away every tear from their eyes, and there will be no death anymore. There will be no mourning, no crying, no pain anymore because the first things have passed away.

⁷ He who overcomes will be inheriting these things, and I will be his God and he will be a son to me.

⁶ And Jehovah your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, to love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

⁷¹ He brought him from following the ewe-lambs that have their young, to be the shepherd of Jacob his people and Israel his inheritance.
⁷² So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

¹ Listen, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who sit above the cherubim, shine forth.

¹¹ The words of the wise are as cattle-prods and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies. They have been given from one shepherd.

¹¹ He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm and carry them in his bosom, and will gently lead those who have their young.

³ Incline your* ear and come to me. Hear and your* soul will live. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you*, even the faithful holy things of David. ⁴ Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.

⁵ Behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch and he will reign as king and deal wisely and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.

⁹ but they will serve Jehovah their God and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.

²² And I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel and one king will be king to them all. And they will no more be two nations, nor will they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.

⁵ Afterward the sons of Israel will return and seek Jehovah their God and David their king and will come with fear to Jehovah and to his goodness in the latter days.

² But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, which are little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of you he will come out to me who is to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from long-ago, from the days of everlasting.

⁴ And he will stand and will feed his flock in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah his God and they will abide. For now he will be great to the ends of the earth.

⁷ Awake, O sword, against my shepherd and against the man who is my companion, says Jehovah of hosts. Strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered. And I will turn my hand upon the little ones.

³² He will be great and will be called the Son of the Highest and the Lord God will be giving to him the throne of his father David,

¹¹ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life on behalf of the sheep.

¹⁴ I am the good shepherd, and I know my own and I am known by my own, ¹⁵ just-as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I lay down my life on behalf of the sheep. ¹⁶ And I have other sheep, which are not out of this pen; it is also essential for me to lead those and they will be hearing my voice and there will become one flock, only one shepherd.

² Now I praise you brethren that you have remembered me in all things and are holding-onto the traditions, just-as I gave them to you.

¹⁰ For we are his product, created in Christ Jesus toward good works, in which God prepared beforehand in order that we should walk in them.

⁴ There is one body and one Spirit, just-as you were also called in one hope of your calling; ⁵ one Lord, one faith, one immersion, ⁶ one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in us all.

¹² So-then my beloved, just-as you have always obeyed, not only as in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. ¹³ For it is God who is working in you both to will and to work, on behalf of his delight.

¹¹ For the grace of God has appeared, which is salvation to all men, ¹² educating us in order that we should live with self-discipline and righteously and devoutly in this current age, after having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts; ¹³ waiting for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ;

³ For we were also previously foolish, disobedient, being misled, serving in various lusts and sensual-delights, leading lives in malice and envy, spiteful, hating one another. ⁴ But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love of mankind had appeared: ⁵ he saved us (not from any works done in righteousness, which we practiced), but according to his mercy, through the full-washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, ⁶ which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior; ⁷ in order that we might become heirs according to the hope of everlasting life, having been made righteous in that grace. ⁸ Faithful is the word: and I will for you to confidently confirm concerning these things, in order that those who have believed God may be anxious to establish themselves first in good works. These things are good and profitable to men.

²⁰ Now the God of peace, who brought up the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus, from the dead in the blood of an everlasting covenant,

⁴ And when the Chief-Shepherd is made manifest, you will be getting the unfading crown of glory.

⁶ He who says he abides in him, he also ought to walk so; just-as that man walked.

¹ And there will come out a shoot out of the stock of Jesse. And a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

²¹ Your people also will all be righteous. They will inherit the land everlasting, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

²² For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will remain before me, says Jehovah, so will your* seed and your* name remain.

²⁴ And Judah and all the cities of it will dwell in there together, the farmer and those who go about with flocks.

⁴¹ Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good. And I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.

²⁸ And you* will dwell in the land that I gave to your* fathers and you* will be my people and I will be your* God.

²⁶ Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them and I will place them and multiply them and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them everlasting.

⁴⁴ And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will the sovereignty of it be left to another people, but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms and it will stand forever.
⁴⁵ Inasmuch as you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what will happen hereafter. And the dream is certain and the interpretation of it sure.

²⁰ But Judah will abide everlasting and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

¹⁵ And I will plant them upon their land and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them, says Jehovah your God.

¹⁴ Sing, O daughter of Zion. Shout, O Israel. Be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. ¹⁵ Jehovah has taken away your judgments. He has cast out your enemy. The King of Israel, even Jehovah, is in the midst of you. You will not fear evil any more.

¹² And speak to him, saying, Thus speaks Jehovah of hosts, saying, Behold, the man whose name is the Branch. And he will grow up out of his place and he will build the temple of Jehovah, ¹³ even he will build the temple of Jehovah. And he will bear the glory and will sit and rule upon his throne. And he will be a priest upon his throne and the counsel of peace will be between them both.

¹¹ And men will dwell in it and there will be no more curse, but Jerusalem will dwell safely.

³⁴ The crowd answered him, We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever and how do you say, It is essential for the Son of Man to be exalted? Who is this Son of Man?

² to whom Abraham also divided a tenth away from all things. Being first, by translation, King of righteousness and thereafter also King of Salem, which is King of peace;

²¹ but he with an oath through the one who says pertaining to him, ‘ The Lord swore and will not regret, you are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.’

⁷ And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

¹¹ And I will set my tabernacle among you* and my soul will not abhor you*. ¹² And I will walk among you* and will be your* God and you* will be my people.

⁵ Truly my house is not so with God. Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure. For it is all my salvation and all my desire, though he does not make it to grow.

²⁰ And Jehovah has established his word that he spoke, for I have risen up in the place of David my father and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah promised and have built the house for the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel. ²¹ And there I have set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of Jehovah, which he made with our fathers when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁸ You have ascended on high. You have led captivity captive. You have received gifts among men, yes, among the rebellious also, that Jehovah God might dwell with them.

³ I have made a covenant with my chosen. I have sworn to David my servant: ⁴ Your seed I will establish everlasting and build up your throne to all generations. Selah.

⁶ In days to come Jacob will take root; Israel will blossom and bud. And they will fill the face of the world with fruit.

²¹ Then you will say in your heart, Who has fathered these for me, seeing I have been bereaved of my sons and am solitary, an exile and wandering to and fro? And who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone, these, where were they?

³ Incline your* ear and come to me. Hear and your* soul will live. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you*, even the faithful holy things of David.

²⁰ And he who redeems will come to Zion and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob, says Jehovah.
²¹ And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says Jehovah: My Spirit that is upon you and my words which I have put in your mouth, will not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed, says Jehovah, from now and until everlasting.

¹⁹ And out of them will proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry. And I will multiply them and they will not be few. I will also glorify them and they will not be small.

²⁷ Behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast.

⁴⁰ And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. And I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

¹⁶ Therefore say, The lord Jehovah says thus: Though I have removed them far off among the nations and though I have scattered them among the countries, yet I will be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they have come.

²⁵ And I will make a covenant of peace with them and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land and they will dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.

³⁷ The lord Jehovah says thus: For this, moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them. I will increase them with men like a flock.

⁷ And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel everlasting. And the house of Israel will no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places,

¹ Moreover, when you* will divide the land by lot for inheritance, you* will offer an oblation to Jehovah, a holy portion of the land. The length will be the length of twenty-five thousand measures and the breadth will be ten thousand. It will be holy in all the border of it all around. ² Of this there will be for the holy place five hundred by five hundred square all around and fifty cubits for the suburbs of it all around. ³ And of this measure you will measure a length of twenty-five thousand and a breadth of ten thousand. And the sanctuary will be in it, which is most holy. ⁴ It is a holy portion of the land. It will be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to Jehovah and it will be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. ⁵ And twenty-five thousand in length and ten thousand in breadth, will be to the Levites, the ministers of the house, for a possession to themselves, for twenty chambers.
⁶ And you* will appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad and twenty-five thousand long, side by side with the oblation of the holy portion. It will be for the whole house of Israel.

¹⁸ And in that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the birds of the heavens and with the creeping things of the ground. And I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land and will make them to lie down safely.
¹⁹ And I will betroth you to me everlasting. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice and in loving kindness and in mercies. ²⁰ I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness and you will know Jehovah.
²¹ And it will happen in that day, I will answer, says Jehovah. I will answer the heavens and they will answer the earth, ²² and the earth will answer the grain and the new wine and the oil and they will answer Jezreel. ²³ And I will sow her to me in the earth. And I will have mercy upon her who had not obtained mercy. And I will say to those who were not my people, You are my people and they will say, My God.

⁵ For I, says Jehovah, will be to her a wall of fire all around and I will be the glory in the midst of her.

⁴ Jehovah of hosts says thus: There will yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age. ⁵ And the streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in the streets of it.

²⁷ I am leaving peace with you. I am giving my peace to you; not like the world gives, I am giving to you. Let your heart not be disturbed, nor let it be cowardly.

¹⁶ And what alliance has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God; just-as God said, ‘I will be dwelling among them and will be walking among them, and I will be their God and they will be a people to me.’

¹⁴ saying, Absolutely in blessing, I will bless you and multiplying, I will multiply you.

²⁰ Now the God of peace, who brought up the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus, from the dead in the blood of an everlasting covenant, ²¹ may he complete you in every good work, that you should practice his will, doing what is well pleasing in his sight in you, through Jesus Christ in whom is the glory, forevermore. Amen.

²⁰ that they may walk in my statutes and keep my ordinances and do them. And they will be my people and I will be their God.

¹¹ that the house of Israel may no more go-astray from me, nor defile themselves any more with all their transgressions, but that they may be my people and I may be their God, says the lord Jehovah.

²³ Neither will 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 dwelling-places in which they have sinned and will cleanse them. So they will be my people and I will be their God.

²³ And I will sow her to me in the earth. And I will have mercy upon her who had not obtained mercy. And I will say to those who were not my people, You are my people and they will say, My God.

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh and resided among us (and we saw his glory, glory like that of the only begotten from the Father), full of favor and truth.

⁹ because all the fullness of the Deity is dwelling in him bodily. ¹⁰ And you are fulfilled in him, who is the head of all principality and authority;

³ And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men and he will be residing with them and they will be his people and God will be with them.

²² And I saw no temple in it; for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

¹³ Speak also to the sons of Israel, saying, Truly you* will keep my Sabbaths, because it is a sign between me and you* throughout your* genealogy, that you* may know that I am Jehovah who sanctifies you*.

⁸ And you* will keep my statutes and do them. I am Jehovah who sanctifies you*.

⁸ You will sanctify him therefore, for he offers the bread of your God. He will be holy to you, for I Jehovah, who sanctify you*, am holy.

¹⁰ Why should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of your servants which is shed be known among the nations in our sight.

¹⁵ So the nations will fear the name of Jehovah and all the kings of the earth your glory.

² Then our mouth was filled with laughter and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, Jehovah has done great things for them.

¹² Moreover I also gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Jehovah who sanctifies them.

²³ And I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you* have profaned in the midst of them.
And the nations will know that I am Jehovah, says the lord Jehovah, when I will be made holy in you* before their eyes.

⁷ And I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel, nor will I allow my holy name to be profaned any more. And the nations will know that I am Jehovah, the Holy One in Israel.

²³ And the nations will know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they trespassed against me and I hid my face from them. So I gave them into the hand of their adversaries and they fell all of them by the sword.

¹⁷ Make them holy in the truth; your word is truth. ¹⁸ Just-as you sent me into the world, I also sent them into the world. ¹⁹ And I make myself holy on their behalf, in order that they themselves may also be made holy in truth.

¹⁵ For if the casting away of them is the reconciliation of the world, what is the receiving of them, except life from the dead?

³⁰ But you are from him, in Christ Jesus, who has become to us wisdom and righteousness and holiness and redemption from God;

²⁶ in order that he might make her holy, having cleansed her in the full-washing of the water in the word,

²³ Now may the God of peace himself make you entirely holy, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ.