12. Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into Eretz-Israel.
13. You will know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.
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, the Lord, have spoken it and performed it,” says the Lord.’”
15. the Lord’s word came again to me, saying,
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. Then join them for yourself to one another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.
18. “When the children of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Won’t you show us what you mean by these?’
19. tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “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. The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.”’
21. Say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “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. 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. 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. “‘“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. 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. 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. My tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
28. The nations will know that I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is among them forever more.”’”