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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Ezekiel 37:5

Thus saith My Lord Yahweh, Unto these bones, - Lo! I am about to bring into you - spirit, and ye shall live;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bones;   Ezekiel;   Regeneration;   Resurrection;   Vision;   Thompson Chain Reference - Breath;   The Topic Concordance - Israel/jews;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Jews, the;   Resurrection, the;   Visions;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Vision;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Word;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hananiah;   Jonah;   Tongues, Gift of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Breath;   Ezekiel;   Oracles;   Wind;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Dura, Plain of;   Ethics;   Ezekiel;   Kidron (1);   Resurrection;   Servant of the Lord;   Symbol;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Odes of Solomon;   Resurrection of the Dead;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Israel ;   Resurrection;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Adoption;   Valley;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Writing;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Breath;   Daniel, Book of;   Eschatology of the Old Testament (with Apocryphal and Apocalyptic Writings);   Ezekiel;   Isaiah;   Regeneration;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Daniel;   Hafṭarah;   Tanna Debe Eliyahu;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This is what the Lord God says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live.
Hebrew Names Version
Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.
King James Version
Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
English Standard Version
Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.
New American Standard Bible
"This is what the Lord GOD says to these bones: 'Behold, I am going to make breath enter you so that you may come to life.
New Century Version
This is what the Lord God says to the bones: I will cause breath to enter you so you will come to life.
Amplified Bible
"Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones, 'Behold, I will make breath enter you so that you may come to life.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus saith the Lord God vnto these bones, Behold, I wil cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall liue.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones, 'Behold, I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life.
Legacy Standard Bible
Thus says Lord Yahweh to these bones, ‘Behold, I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life.
Berean Standard Bible
This is what the Lord GOD says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live.
Contemporary English Version
"I, the Lord God, will put breath in you, and once again you will live.
Complete Jewish Bible
To these bones Adonai Elohim says, "I will make breath enter you, and you will live.
Darby Translation
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live.
Easy-to-Read Version
This is what the Lord God says to you: I will cause breath to come into you, and you will come to life!
George Lamsa Translation
Thus says the LORD God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live;
Good News Translation
Tell them that I, the Sovereign Lord , am saying to them: I am going to put breath into you and bring you back to life.
Lexham English Bible
Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: "Look! I am bringing into you breath, and you will live!
Literal Translation
So says the Lord Jehovah to these bones, Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus saieth the LORDE God vnto these bones: Beholde, I will put breth in to you, that ye maye lyue:
American Standard Version
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live.
Bible in Basic English
This is what the Lord has said to these bones: See, I will make breath come into you so that you may come to life;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live.
King James Version (1611)
Thus saith the Lord God vnto these bones, Behold, I wil cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall liue.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thus saith the Lorde God vnto these bones: Beholde, I wyll cause breath to enter into you, that ye may lyue.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thus saith the Lord to these bones; Behold, I will bring upon you the breath of life:
English Revised Version
Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live.
World English Bible
Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord God seith these thingis to these boonys, Lo! Y schal sende in to you a spirit, and ye schulen lyue.
Update Bible Version
Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: Look, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thus saith the Lord GOD to these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
New English Translation
This is what the sovereign Lord says to these bones: Look, I am about to infuse breath into you and you will live.
New King James Version
Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: "Surely I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.
New Living Translation
This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Look! I am going to put breath into you and make you live again!
New Life Bible
This is what the Lord God says to these bones: ‘I will make breath come into you, and you will come to life.
New Revised Standard
Thus says the Lord God to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will send spirit into you, and you shall live.
Revised Standard Version
Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.
Young's Literal Translation
Thus said the Lord Jehovah to these bones: Lo, I am bringing into you a spirit, and ye have lived,
THE MESSAGE
God , the Master, told the dry bones, "Watch this: I'm bringing the breath of life to you and you'll come to life. I'll attach sinews to you, put meat on your bones, cover you with skin, and breathe life into you. You'll come alive and you'll realize that I am God !"

Contextual Overview

1 The hand of Yahweh I being upon me, he carried me forth in the spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of a plain, - and the same was full of bones; 2 and he caused me to pass near them. round about on every side, - and lo! they were very many on the face of the plain, and lo! they were very dry. 3 Then said he unto me, Son of man. Can these bones I live. And I said, My Lord, Yahweh, thou knowest! 4 Then said he unto me, Prophesy, over these bones, - and thou shalt say unto them, Ye bones so dry! hear ye the word of Yahweh! 5 Thus saith My Lord Yahweh, Unto these bones, - Lo! I am about to bring into you - spirit, and ye shall live; 6 Yea I will lay upon you - sinews, And bring up over you flesh. And cover over you - skin, And put in you - spirit And ye stall live, Then shall ye know that I, am Yahweh. 7 And when I prophesied as I was commanded, then was there a noise, as I prophesied and lo! a rattling, and the bones came near, each bone unto its own bone. 8 And when I looked, then lo! upon them were sinews, and flesh had come up, and there had spread over them skin above, but spirit, was there none within them. 9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the spirit, Prophesy, Son of man. and thou shalt say unto the spirit. Thus saith My Lord Yahweh- From the four winds, come thou, O spirit, And breathe into these slain That they may live. 10 And when I prophesied as he commanded me, then came into them the spirit, and they lived and stood upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will: Ezekiel 37:9, Ezekiel 37:10, Ezekiel 37:14, Genesis 2:7, Psalms 104:29, Psalms 104:30, John 20:22, Romans 8:2, Ephesians 2:5

Reciprocal: Revelation 11:11 - the Spirit

Cross-References

Genesis 28:12
And he dreamed, and lo! a stairway, planted earthwards, with, its top, reaching towards the heavens, - and lo! messengers of God, ascending and descending thereon;
Genesis 37:4
So his brethren saw that their father loved him, more than any of his brethren, and they hated him, and could not bid him prosper,
Genesis 37:8
And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou, reign, over us, shalt thou, have dominion over us? So they went on yet more to hate him, because of his dreams and because of his words.
Genesis 37:13
So Israel said unto Joseph Are not, thy brethren, feeding the flock in Shechem? Come on! and let me send thee unto them. And he said to him Behold me!
Genesis 37:14
So he said to him - Go, I pray thee, look after the welfare of thy brethren, and the welfare of the flock, and bring me back word. And he sent him from the vale of Hebron, and he came in towards Shechem.
Genesis 40:5
And they dreamed a dream they two, each man, his dream in one night, each man, according to the interpretation of his dream, - the butler and the baker who belonged to the king of Egypt, who were imprisoned in the prison.
Genesis 41:1
And it came to pass at the end of two years of days, that, Pharaoh, was dreaming, when lo! he was standing by the river (Nile);
Genesis 42:9
And Joseph remembered the dreams which he had dreamed regarding them, - so he said unto them - Spies, are, ye! to see the nakedness of the land, have ye come in!
Genesis 49:23
So they attack him and have shot, - So they enclose him, do the masters of arrows.
Numbers 12:6
Then said he Hear, I beseech you my words. When ye have your prophet, As Yahweh in a vision, will I make myself known, unto him; In a dream, will I speak with him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones,.... By the prophet, who was sent to prophesy over them:

behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live; and none could do this but the living God, who breathed the breath of life into Adam at first, and he became a living soul; to which there seems to be an allusion here; and when the Lord puts his Spirit into men, or bestows his grace on them, then they shall live, and not till then.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 37:5. Behold, I will cause breath — רוח ruach signifies both soul, breath, and wind; and sometimes the Spirit of God. Soul is its proper meaning in this vision, where it refers to the bones: "I will cause the SOUL to enter into you."


 
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