Ezekiel 37:11

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Summary

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.

Whole house

Our bones

Jeremiah 2:25

General references

Bible References

Whole house

“And you, son of man, take for yourself one stick and write on it, ‘For Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.’

I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities will be inhabited and the waste places will be rebuilt.

Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Now I will

restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name.

“At that time,” declares the Lord, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people.”

“Have you not observed what this people have spoken, saying, ‘The two families which the Lord chose, He has rejected them’? Thus they despise My people, no longer are they as a nation in their sight.

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

and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written,
“The Deliverer will come from Zion,
He will remove ungodliness from Jacob.”

For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

Our bones

The hand of the Lord was upon me, and He brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.

Then the sons of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, “Behold, we perish, we are dying, we are all dying!

Will the Lord reject forever?
And will He never be favorable again?

As when one plows and breaks open the earth,
Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel,

“My way is hidden from the Lord,
And the justice due me escapes the notice of my God”?

But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me,
And the Lord has forgotten me.”

“Keep your feet from being unshod
And your throat from thirst;
But you said, ‘It is hopeless!
No! For I have loved strangers,
And after them I will walk.’

General references

“For thus says the Lord,
‘Your wound is incurable
And your injury is serious.

“There is hope for your future,” declares the Lord,
“And your children will return to their own territory.

Fields will be bought in this land of which you say, “It is a desolation, without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.”

So I say, “My strength has perished,
And so has my hope from the Lord.”