Ezekiel 37 Clementine Vulgate
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1 Facta est super me manus Domini, et eduxit me in spiritu Domini, et dimisit me in medio campi qui erat plenus ossibus.
1 Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me out in Yahweh’s Spirit, and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.
2 Et circumduxit me per ea in gyro: erant autem multa valde super faciem campi, siccaque vehementer.
2 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 Et dixit ad me: Fili hominis, putasne vivent ossa ista? Et dixi: Domine Deus, tu nosti.
3 He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I answered, “Lord Yahweh, you know.”
4 Et dixit ad me: Vaticinare de ossibus istis, et dices eis: Ossa arida, audite verbum Domini.
4 Again he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, ‘You dry bones, hear Yahweh’s word.
5 Hæc dicit Dominus Deus ossibus his: Ecce ego intromittam in vos spiritum, et vivetis.
5 The Lord Yahweh says to these bones: “Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you will live.
6 Et dabo super vos nervos, et succrescere faciam super vos carnes, et superextendam in vobis cutem, et dabo vobis spiritum, et vivetis: et scietis quia ego Dominus.
6 I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you will live. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”’”
7 Et prophetavi sicut præceperat mihi: factus est autem sonitus, prophetante me, et ecce commotio: et accesserunt ossa ad ossa, unumquodque ad juncturam suam.
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. As I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, there was an earthquake. Then the bones came together, bone to its bone.
8 Et vidi, et ecce super ea nervi et carnes ascenderunt, et extenta est in eis cutis desuper: et spiritum non habebant.
8 I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them.
9 Et dixit ad me: Vaticinare ad spiritum: vaticinare, fili hominis, et dices ad spiritum: Hæc dicit Dominus Deus: A quatuor ventis veni, spiritus, et insuffla super interfectos istos, et reviviscant.
9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.”’”
10 Et prophetavi sicut præceperat mihi: et ingressus est in ea spiritus, et vixerunt: steteruntque super pedes suos, exercitus grandis nimis valde.
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceedingly great army.
11 Et dixit ad me: Fili hominis, ossa hæc universa, domus Israël est. Ipsi dicunt: Aruerunt ossa nostra, et periit spes nostra, et abscissi sumus.
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 completely cut off.’
12 Propterea vaticinare, et dices ad eos: Hæc dicit Dominus Deus: Ecce ego aperiam tumulos vestros, et educam vos de sepulchris vestris, populus meus, et inducam vos in terram Israël.
12 Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.
13 Et scietis quia ego Dominus, cum aperuero sepulchra vestra, et eduxero vos de tumulis vestris, popule meus,
13 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 et dedero spiritum meum in vobis, et vixeritis: et requiescere vos faciam super humum vestram, et scietis quia ego Dominus locutus sum, et feci, ait Dominus Deus.
14 I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live. Then I will place you in your own land; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it,” says Yahweh.’”
15 Et factus est sermo Domini ad me, dicens:
15 Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,
16 Et tu, fili hominis, sume tibi lignum unum, et scribe super illud: Judæ, et filiorum Israël sociorum ejus: et tolle lignum alterum, et scribe super illud: Joseph, ligno Ephraim, et cunctæ domui Israël sociorumque ejus.
16 “You, son of man, take one stick and write on it, ‘For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions.’ Then take another stick, and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions.’
17 Et adjunge illa unum ad alterum tibi in lignum unum: et erunt in unionem in manu tua.
17 Then join them for yourself to one another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.
18 Cum autem dixerint ad te filii populi tui, loquentes: Nonne indicas nobis quid in his tibi velis?
18 “When the children of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Won’t you show us what you mean by these?’
19 loqueris ad eos: Hæc dicit Dominus Deus: Ecce ego assumam lignum Joseph, quod est in manu Ephraim, et tribus Israël, quæ sunt ei adjunctæ, et dabo eas pariter cum ligno Juda, et faciam eas in lignum unum: et erunt unum in manu ejus.
19 tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “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 Erunt autem ligna super quæ scripseris in manu tua in oculis eorum.
20 The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.”’
21 Et dices ad eos: Hæc dicit Dominus Deus: Ecce ego assumam filios Israël de medio nationum ad quas abierunt: et congregabo eos undique, et adducam eos ad humum suam.
21 Say to them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will take the children 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 Et faciam eos in gentem unam in terra in montibus Israël, et rex unus erit omnibus imperans: et non erunt ultra duæ gentes, nec dividentur amplius in duo regna,
22 I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. One king will be king to them all. They will no longer be two nations. They won’t be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
23 neque polluentur ultra in idolis suis, et abominationibus suis, et cunctis iniquitatibus suis: et salvos eos faciam de universis sedibus in quibus peccaverunt, et emundabo eos: et erunt mihi populus, et ego ero eis Deus.
23 They won’t 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 Et servus meus David rex super eos, et pastor unus erit omnium eorum. In judiciis meis ambulabunt, et mandata mea custodient, et facient ea:
24 “‘“My servant David will be king over them. They all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances and observe my statutes, and do them.
25 et habitabunt super terram quam dedi servo meo Jacob, in qua habitaverunt patres vestri: et habitabunt super eam ipsi, et filii eorum, et filii filiorum eorum, usque in sempiternum: et David servus meus princeps eorum in perpetuum.
25 They will dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived. They will dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children’s children, forever. David my servant will be their prince forever.
26 Et percutiam illis fœdus pacis: pactum sempiternum erit eis. Et fundabo eos, et multiplicabo, et dabo sanctificationem meam in medio eorum in perpetuum.
26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will place them, multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forever more.
27 Et erit tabernaculum meum in eis: et ero eis Deus, et ipsi erunt mihi populus.
27 My tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
28 Et scient gentes quia ego Dominus sanctificator Israël, cum fuerit sanctificatio mea in medio eorum in perpetuum.
28 The nations will know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is among them forever more.”’”
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- 1 Ezekiel 3:22; Acts 8:39; Ezekiel 1:3; Ezekiel 33:22; Jeremiah 7:32
- 2 Psalm 141:7; Ezekiel 37:11
- 3 John 11:25–26; John 5:21; Deuteronomy 32:39; Romans 4:17; Hebrews 11:19
- 4 John 5:25; John 5:28–29; Matthew 21:21; Ezekiel 36:1; Jeremiah 22:29
- 5 Psalm 104:29–30; Ezekiel 37:14; Genesis 2:7; Ezekiel 37:9–10; John 20:22
- 6 Joel 2:27; Isaiah 49:23; Joel 3:17; Ezekiel 37:14; Ezekiel 38:23
- 7 Acts 2:2; 1 Kings 19:11–13; Acts 4:19; Jeremiah 13:5–7; Acts 2:37
- 9 John 3:8; Song of Songs 4:16; Ezekiel 37:14; Ezekiel 37:5; Psalm 104:30
- 10 Revelation 11:11; Psalm 104:30; Revelation 20:4–5
- 11 Ephesians 2:1; Psalm 77:7–9; Ezekiel 39:25; Ezekiel 36:10; Jeremiah 31:1
- 12 Isaiah 26:19; Hosea 13:14; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; Isaiah 66:14; Amos 9:14–15
- 13 Ezekiel 37:6; Ezekiel 16:62; Psalm 126:2–3
- 14 Joel 2:28–29; Ezekiel 36:27; Ezekiel 11:19; Ezekiel 36:36; Ezekiel 39:29
- 16 2 Chronicles 15:9; 2 Chronicles 10:19; 2 Chronicles 10:17; Numbers 17:2–3; 1 Kings 12:16–20
- 17 Hosea 1:11; Jeremiah 50:4; Isaiah 11:13; Ezekiel 37:22–24; Zephaniah 3:9
- 18 Ezekiel 24:19; Ezekiel 12:9; Ezekiel 17:12; Ezekiel 20:49
- 19 Zechariah 10:6; Ephesians 2:13–14; Colossians 3:11; Ezekiel 37:16–17; 1 Chronicles 9:1–3
- 20 Ezekiel 12:3; Numbers 17:6–9; Hosea 12:10
- 21 Ezekiel 36:24; Jeremiah 23:8; Jeremiah 16:15; Amos 9:14–15; Jeremiah 29:14
- 22 Ezekiel 37:24; Ezekiel 34:23–24; Jeremiah 3:18; Jeremiah 50:4; Genesis 49:10
- 23 Revelation 21:3–4; Ezekiel 36:28–29; 1 John 1:9; Revelation 21:7; Ephesians 5:26–27
- 24 Ezekiel 34:23–24; Hosea 3:5; Jeremiah 30:9; Ezekiel 37:25; Ezekiel 36:27
- 25 Amos 9:15; Ezekiel 37:24; Ezekiel 36:28; Ezekiel 28:25; Zephaniah 3:14–15
- 26 Isaiah 55:3; Ezekiel 34:25; Hebrews 13:20–21; Jeremiah 30:19; Leviticus 26:11–12
- 27 Revelation 21:3; Ezekiel 37:23; Leviticus 26:11–12; John 1:14; 2 Corinthians 6:16
- 28 John 17:17–19; Ezekiel 20:12; Exodus 31:13; 1 Corinthians 1:30; Leviticus 21:8
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