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I doe not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, Ierusalem in their solemne feastes, so shall the
but for mine holy Names sake, which yee polluted desolate cities be filled with flockes of men, and
among the heathen whither ye went. 23 And I they shall know, that I am the Lord.
wil sanctifie my great Name, which was polluted
among the heathen, among whome you haue 37
polluted it, and the heathen shall know that I 1 The hand of the Lord was vpon me, and
am the Lord, sayth the Lord God, when I shalbe caryed me out in ye spirit of ye Lord, and set me
sanctified in you before their eyes. 24 For I will downe in ye mids of the field, which was full of
take you from among the heathen, and gather bones. 2 And he led me round about by them,
you out of all countries, and will bring you into and beholde, they were very many in the open
your owne land. 25 Then wil I powre cleane water fielde, and lo, they were very drie. 3 And he
vpon you, and ye shalbe cleane: yea, from all sayde vnto me, Sonne of man, can these bones
your filthines, and from all youridoles wil I clense liue? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.
you. 26 A newe heart also will I giue you, and a 4 Againe he sayde vnto me, Prophecie vpon these
new spirit wil I put within you, and I will take bones and say vnto them, O ye dry bones, heare
away the stonie heart out of your body, and I the word of the Lord. 5 Thus saith the Lord
will giue you an heart of flesh. 27 And I will put God vnto these bones, Behold, I wil cause breath
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my spirite within you, and cause you to walke in to enter into you, and ye shall liue. And I
my statutes, and ye shall keepe my iudgements will lay sinewes vpon you, and make flesh growe
and do them. 28 And ye shall dwell in the land, vpon you, and couer you with skinne, and put
that I gaue to your fathers, and ye shalbe my breath in you, that ye may liue, and yee shall
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people, and I will be your God. 29 I will also deliuer know that I am the Lord. So I prophecied, as
you from all your filthinesse, and I will call for I was commanded: and as I prophecied, there
corne, and will increase it, and lay no famine was a noyse, and beholde, there was a shaking,
and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
vpon you. 30 For I will multiplie the fruite of 8 And when I beheld, loe, the sinewes, and the
the trees, and the increase of the fielde, that ye flesh grewe vpon them, and aboue, the skinne
shall beare no more the reproch of famine among couered them, but there was no breath in them.
the heathen. 31 Then shall ye remember your 9 Then sayd he vnto me, Prophecie vnto the
owne wicked wayes, and your deedes that were winde: prophecie, sonne of man, and say to the
not good, and shall iudge your selues worthie winde, Thus sayth the Lord God, Come from the
to haue bene destroyed for your iniquities, and foure windes, O breath, and breathe vpon these
for your abominations. 32 Be it knowen vnto you slayne, that they may liue. 10 So I prophecied as
that I do not this for your sakes, sayth the Lord hee had commanded me: and the breath came
God: therefore, O ye house of Israel, be ashamed, into them, and they liued, and stood vp vpon
and confounded for your owne wayes. 33 Thus their feete, an exceeding great armie. 11 Then
sayth the Lord God, What time as I shall haue he sayd vnto me, Sonne of man, these bones are
clensed you from all your iniquities, I will cause the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our
you to dwel in the cities, and the desolate places bones are dried, and our hope is gone, and we are
shalbe builded. 34 And the desolate land shalbe cleane cut off. 12 Therefore prophecie, and say
tilled, whereas it lay waste in the sight of all vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God, Beholde, my
that passed by. 35 For they sayd, This waste land people, I will open your graues, and cause you to
was like the garden of Eden, and these waste and come vp out of your sepulchres, and bring you
desolate and ruinous cities were strong, and were into the lande of Israel, 13 And yee shall knowe
inhabited. 36 Then the residue of the heathen that I am the Lord, when I haue opened your
that are left round about you, shall know that I graues, O my people, and brought you vp out of
the Lord builde the ruinous places, and plant the your sepulchres, 14 And shall put my Spirit in you,
desolate places: I the Lord haue spoken it, and and ye shall liue, and I shall place you in your
wil do it. 37 Thus saith the Lord God, I will yet for owne land: then yee shall knowe that I the Lord
this be sought of ye house of Israel, to performe haue spoken it, and performed it, sayth the Lord.
it vnto them: I wil encrease them with men like 15 The word of the Lord came againe vnto me,
a flocke. 38 As the holy flocke, as the flocke of
saying, 16 Moreouer thou sonne of man, take thee