Ezekiel 36:25-32

25 Then I will 1asprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your buncleanness and from all your cidols. 26 Moreover, I will give you a anew heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the bheart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will aput My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to do My judgments. 28 And you will inhabit the land that I gave to your fathers; so you will be aMy people, and I will be your God. 29 Moreover, I will save you from all your uncleanness; and I will call for the grain and multiply it, and I awill not 1bring a famine on you. 30 I will amultiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field so that you will not receive again the reproach of famine among the nations. 31 Then you will aremember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves to your own faces for your iniquities and your abominations. 32 I am not doing this afor your sake,” declares Lord Yahweh, “let it be known to you. Be ashamed and feel dishonor for your ways, O house of Israel!”

Ezekiel 37:1-28


Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones

The ahand of Yahweh was upon me, and He bbrought me out 1by the Spirit of Yahweh and caused me to rest in the middle of the cvalley; and it was full of bones.
2 He caused me to pass among them all around, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley; and behold, they were very dry. 3 He said to me, “Son of man, acan these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord Yahweh, bYou know.” 4 Then He said to me, “aProphesy over these bones and say to them, ‘O dry bones, bhear the word of Yahweh.’ 5 Thus says Lord Yahweh to these bones, ‘Behold, I will cause 1abreath to enter you that you may come to life. 6 I will put sinews on you, make flesh come up upon you, cover you with skin, and put breath in you that you may come alive; and you will aknow that I am Yahweh.’”
7 So I prophesied aas I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a 1noise, and behold, a rumbling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
8 And I looked, and behold, sinews were on them, and flesh came up upon them, and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them. 9 Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Come from the four 1winds, O breath, and abreathe on these who were killed, that they may bcome to life.”’” 10 So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the abreath came into them, and they came to life and stood on their feet, an bexceedingly great military force.
11 Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the awhole house of Israel; behold, they say, ‘Our bbones are dried up, and our hope has perished. We are 1completely ccut off.’
12 Therefore prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will open your graves and acause you to come up out of your graves, My people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel. 13 Then you will know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up out of your graves, My people. 14 And I will aput My 1Spirit within you, and you will come to life, and I will 2place you on your own land. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken and done it,” declares Yahweh.’”

Israel Will No Longer Be Divided

15 The word of Yahweh came again to me saying,
16 “Now as for you, son of man, take for yourself aone stick and write on it, ‘For bJudah and for the sons of Israel, his companions’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For cJoseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.’ 17 Then adraw them together for yourself one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand. 18 And when the sons of your people speak to you saying, ‘Will you not declare to us awhat you mean by these?’ 19 say to them, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “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, 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 speak to them, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will atake 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; 22 and I will make them aone nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and bone king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations and no longer be divided into two kingdoms. 23 They also will ano longer defile themselves with their idols or with their detestable things or with any of their transgressions; but bI will save them from all their 1places of habitation in which they have sinned, and I will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God.

Yahweh Cuts a Covenant

24 “And My servant aDavid will be king over them, and they will all have bone shepherd; and they will walk in My judgments and keep My statutes and do them.
25 They will inhabit the land that I gave to Jacob My servant, which your fathers inhabited; and they will inhabit it, they, and their sons and their sons’ sons, forever; and aDavid My servant will be their prince forever. 26 And I will cut a acovenant of peace with them; it will be an beverlasting covenant with them. And I will give them the land and cmultiply them and will set My dsanctuary in their midst forever. 27 My 1adwelling place also will be with them; and bI will be their God, and they will be My people. 28 And the nations will know that I am Yahweh awho sanctifies Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forever.”’”

Ezekiel 39:29

29 And I will not hide My face from them any longer, for I will have apoured out My Spirit on the house of Israel,” declares Lord Yahweh.

Joel 2:23-28


23
So rejoice, O asons of Zion,
And bbe glad in Yahweh your God,
For He has cgiven you 1the early rain in righteousness.
And He has poured down for you the rain,
The 2early and 3dlate rains 4as before.

24
The threshing floors will be full of grain,
And the vats will aoverflow with the new wine and oil.

25
“Then I will pay back to you in full for the years
That the swarming alocust has consumed,
The creeping locust, the stripping locust, and the gnawing locust,
My great military force which I sent among you.

26
And you will have plenty to aconsume and be satisfied
And bpraise the name of Yahweh your God,
Who has cdealt wondrously with you;
Then My people will dnever be put to shame.

27
Thus you will aknow that I am in the midst of Israel,
And that I am Yahweh your God,
And there is bno other;
And My people will never be cput to shame.

Yahweh Will Pour Out His Spirit

28
“1aAnd it will be afterwards
That I will bpour out My Spirit on all 2cmankind;
And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy;
Your old men will dream dreams;
Your young men will see visions.

Zechariah 12:10


Mourning for the Pierced One

10 “And I will apour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem 1the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have bpierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one cmourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.

2 Corinthians 3:16

16 but awhenever a person turns to the 1Lord, the veil is taken away.
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