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Bible Reading for September 22
Ezekiel 37
[1] The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the
LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
[2] And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very
many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. [3] And he said unto me,
Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
[4] Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye
dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. [5] Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these
bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
[6] And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and
cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall
know that I am the LORD.
[7] So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a
noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
[8] And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the
skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them. [9] Then said he
unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; 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
exceeding great army. [11] 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.
[12] Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O
my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your
graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. [13] And ye shall know that I
am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up
out of your graves, [14] And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live,
and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD
have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
[15] The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, [16] Moreover, thou son
of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the
children 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; and they shall become one in
thine hand.
[18] And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt
thou not shew us what thou meanest by these? [19] Say unto them, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of
Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him,
even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one
in mine hand. [20] And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand
before their eyes.
[21] And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the
children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be 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
shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither
shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
[23] Neither shall 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 dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will
cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. [24] And
David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one
shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and
do them.
[25] And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant,
wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and
their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David
shall be their prince for ever. [26] Moreover I will make a covenant of peace
with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place
them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for
evermore. [27] My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their
God, and they shall be my people.
[28] And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my
sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
Ezekiel 38
[1] And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, [2] Son of man, set thy
face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal,
and prophesy against him, [3] And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold I am
against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
[4] And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring
thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with
all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of
them handling swords:
[5] Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
[6] Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and
all his bands: and many people with thee. [7] Be thou prepared, and prepare
for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be
thou a guard unto them. [8] After many days thou shalt be visited: in the
latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the
sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel,
which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and
they shall dwell safely all of them.
[9] Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to
cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. [10] Thus
saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall
things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: [11] And thou
shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them
that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and
having neither bars nor gates, [12] To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to
turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the
people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and
goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
[13] Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions
thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou
gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take
away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? [14] Therefore, son of man,
prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people
of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
[15] And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many
people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a
mighty army:
[16] And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover
the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my
land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog,
before their eyes.
[17] Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by
my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years
that I would bring thee against them? [18] And it shall come to pass at the
same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD,
that my fury shall come up in my face.
[19] For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in
that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; [20] So that
the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the
field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that
are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains
shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall
fall to the ground. [21] And I will call for a sword against him throughout
all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his
brother. [22] And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and
I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are
with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. [23]
Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the
eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 39
[1] Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and
Tubal:
[2] And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will
cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the
mountains of Israel:
[3] And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows
to fall out of thy right hand. [4] Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of
Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give
thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to
be devoured. [5] Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it,
saith the Lord GOD.
[6] And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in
the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD. [7] So will I make my holy
name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute
my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy
One in Israel. [8] Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD;
this is the day whereof I have spoken.
[9] And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set
on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and
the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with
fire seven years:
[10] So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any
out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall
spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord
GOD.
[11] And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place
there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the
sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury
Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamon-gog.
[12] And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they
may cleanse the land.
[13] Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them
a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD. [14] And they
shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury
with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse
it: after the end of seven months shall they search. [15] And the passengers
that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up
a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog.
[16] And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse
the land.
[17] And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered
fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather
yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a
great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink
blood.
[18] Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes
of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them
fatlings of Bashan.
[19] And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken,
of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. [20] Thus ye shall be filled
at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of
war, saith the Lord GOD. [21] And I will set my glory among the heathen, and
all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I
have laid upon them.
[22] So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that
day and forward.
[23] And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity
for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my
face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all
by the sword.
[24] According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have
I done unto them, and hid my face from them. [25] Therefore thus saith the
Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon
the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
[26] After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby
they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and
none made them afraid.
[27] When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of
their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
[28] Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which cause them to be
led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own
land, and have left none of them any more there. [29] Neither will I hide my
face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of
Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
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