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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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