"These bones represent the entire house of Israel," the LORD explained to me. "Look how they keep saying, "Our bones are dried up, and our future is lost. We've been completely eliminated!'

Just as one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered near the entrance to the place of the dead.

"But Zion said, "The LORD has abandoned me, and my God has forgotten me.'

Water closed over my head, and I said, "I'm a dead man."

I'm going to make the entire house of Israel grow every single member and their cities will be inhabited with all the ruins rebuilt.

"Therefore this is what the Lord GOD has to say: "I'm going to restore the resources of Jacob and show mercy to the entire house of Israel. I'll be zealous for my own reputation and for my holiness.

Then the Israelis told Moses, "We're sure to die! We're all going to perish all of us!

Will the Lord reject me forever and not show favor again?

"Jacob, why do you say and Israel, why do you complain "My predicament is hidden from the LORD, and my cause is ignored by my God.'?

"Don't run until your feet are bare and your throat is dry. But you say, "It's hopeless! Because I love foreign gods, I'll go after them!'"

"At that time," declares the LORD, "I'll be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people."

"Haven't you noticed what these people have been saying? "The LORD rejected the two families that he had chosen!' They have contempt for my people and no longer consider them a nation.

The LORD laid his hand on me and brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD to the middle of a valley that was filled with bones.

"Now as for you, Son of Man, grab a stick of wood for yourself and write on it these words: "FOR JUDAH AND THE ISRAELIS, HIS COMPANIONS' "Then grab another stick and write on it: "FOR JOSEPH, THE STICK OF EPHRAIM, AND ALL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, HIS COMPANIONS'

you are to tell them, "This is what the LORD says: "Watch me! I'm taking the baton that represents Joseph, which Ephraim is holding in his hand, along with his companions the tribes of Israel, and I'm going to join them with the baton that represents Judah. I'm making them a single baton, that is, a complete baton in my hand."

And the people of Judah and the people of Israel will be united as one. They will appoint for themselves a single leader and will take dominion over the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.

In this way, all Israel will be saved, as it is written, "The Deliverer will come from Zion; he will remove ungodliness from Jacob.

The love of the Messiah controls us, for we are convinced of this: that one person died for all people; therefore, all people have died.

You used to be dead because of your offenses and sins

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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.

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Whole house

"Now as for you, Son of Man, grab a stick of wood for yourself and write on it these words: "FOR JUDAH AND THE ISRAELIS, HIS COMPANIONS' "Then grab another stick and write on it: "FOR JOSEPH, THE STICK OF EPHRAIM, AND ALL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, HIS COMPANIONS'
I'm going to make the entire house of Israel grow every single member and their cities will be inhabited with all the ruins rebuilt.
"Therefore this is what the Lord GOD has to say: "I'm going to restore the resources of Jacob and show mercy to the entire house of Israel. I'll be zealous for my own reputation and for my holiness.
"At that time," declares the LORD, "I'll be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people."
"Haven't you noticed what these people have been saying? "The LORD rejected the two families that he had chosen!' They have contempt for my people and no longer consider them a nation.
And the people of Judah and the people of Israel will be united as one. They will appoint for themselves a single leader and will take dominion over the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.
In this way, all Israel will be saved, as it is written, "The Deliverer will come from Zion; he will remove ungodliness from Jacob.
The love of the Messiah controls us, for we are convinced of this: that one person died for all people; therefore, all people have died.
You used to be dead because of your offenses and sins

Our bones

The LORD laid his hand on me and brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD to the middle of a valley that was filled with bones.
Then the Israelis told Moses, "We're sure to die! We're all going to perish all of us!
Will the Lord reject me forever and not show favor again?
Just as one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered near the entrance to the place of the dead.
"Jacob, why do you say and Israel, why do you complain "My predicament is hidden from the LORD, and my cause is ignored by my God.'?
"But Zion said, "The LORD has abandoned me, and my God has forgotten me.'
"Don't run until your feet are bare and your throat is dry. But you say, "It's hopeless! Because I love foreign gods, I'll go after them!'"

General references

"For this is what the LORD says: "Your injury won't heal; your wound is severe.
There is hope for your future," declares the LORD. "Your children will return to their own territory."
Fields will be bought in this land about which you will say, "It is a desolate place without people or animals. It is given into the hands of the Chaldeans."
So I say, "My strength is gone as is my hope in the LORD."

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