¹The 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,

¹Roka GOSPODOVA je bila nad menoj, in peljal me je ven v duhu GOSPODOVEM in me je postavil sredi doline, in ta je bila polna kosti.

²And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.

²In mi je velel iti mimo njih kroginkrog; in glej, bilo jih je silno veliko po dolini, in glej, bile so silno usehle.

³And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.

³In mi reče: Sin človečji, bodo li te kosti oživele? In odgovorim: Gospod Jehova, ti veš!

⁴Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.

⁴Tedaj mi veli: Prorokuj nad temi kostmi in jim reci: O kosti usehle, čujte besedo GOSPODOVO!

⁵Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

⁵Tako pravi Gospod Jehova tem kostem: Glejte, jaz pošljem duha v vas, da oživite.

⁶And 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.

⁶S kitami vas obložim in storim, da zraste meso na vas, in s kožo vas odenem ter dam duha v vas, in oživite. In spoznate, da sem jaz GOSPOD.

⁷So 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.

⁷In prorokoval sem, kakor mi je bilo ukazano. In nastane šumenje, ko prorokujem, in glej, gibanje: kosti rinejo k sebi, kost h kosti svoji.

⁸And 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.

⁸In gledam, in glej: kite so bile na njih in meso je zraslo in koža jih je odela povrhu; ali duha ni bilo v njih.

⁹Then 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.

⁹Tedaj mi veli: Prorokuj duhu, prorokuj, sin človečji, in reci duhu: Tako pravi Gospod Jehova: Od štirih vetrov pridi, o duh, in dihni v te pobite, da ožive!

¹⁰So 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.

¹⁰In prorokoval sem, kakor mi je ukazal; in prišel je duh vanje. In oživele so in stopile pokonci – prav silno velika vojska.

¹¹Then 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.

¹¹In mi reče: Sin človečji, te kosti so vsa družina Izraelova. Glej, oni govore: Kosti naše so usehle in upanje naše je izginilo; izgubljeni smo!

¹²Therefore 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.

¹²Zato prorokuj in jim reci: Tako pravi Gospod Jehova: Glejte, jaz odprem grobe vaše in vas, ljudstvo svoje, izpeljem iz grobov vaših in vas privedem v zemljo Izraelovo.

¹³And 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,

¹³In spoznate, da sem jaz GOSPOD, kadar odprem grobe vaše ter vas izpeljem iz grobov vaših, ljudstvo svoje.

¹⁴And 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.

¹⁴In dam duha svojega v vas, da živite, in vas naselim v vaši zemlji. In zvedeli boste, da sem jaz GOSPOD rekel in izvršil to, govori GOSPOD.

¹⁵The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

¹⁵In beseda GOSPODOVA mi je prišla, govoreč:

¹⁶Moreover, 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:

¹⁶In ti, sin človečji, si vzemi les ter zapiši nanj: Judi in sinovom Izraelovim, tovarišem njegovim. In vzemi drug les in zapiši nanj: Jožefu, les Efraimov in vse družine Izraelove, tovarišev njegovih.

¹⁷And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.

¹⁷In ju združi drug z drugim, sebi v eno drevo, da bodeta zedinjena v roki tvoji.

¹⁸And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?

¹⁸In kadar te ogovore ljudstva tvojega sinovi, rekoč: Ali nam ne naznaniš, kaj ti pomeni to?

¹⁹Say 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.

¹⁹jim reci: Tako pravi Gospod Jehova: Glejte, jaz vzamem les Jožefov, ki je v roki Efraimovi, in rodove Izraelove, tovariše njegove, in jih pridenem njemu, lesu Judovemu, in jih storim v eno drevo, da bodo zedinjeni v roki moji.

²⁰And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.

²⁰Lesova pa, na katera si pisal, imej v roki pred njih očmi.

²¹And 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:

²¹In jim govori: Tako pravi Gospod Jehova: Glejte, jaz vzamem sinove Izraelove izmed narodov, kamorkoli so prišli, in jih zberem z vseh strani ter jih pripeljem v njih zemljo

²²And 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.

²²in jih združim v eno ljudstvo v deželi, na gorah Izraelovih in en kralj bo vsem kraljeval in ne bodo več v dva naroda in se ne bodo delili več v dve kraljestvi.

²³Neither 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.

²³Tudi se ne bodo več oskrunjali z grdimi maliki in z ostudami svojimi, ne s katerokoli iz pregreh svojih; in rešim jih iz vseh prebivališč, v katerih so grešili, ter jih očistim: in bodo mi ljudstvo in jaz jim bodem Bog.

²⁴And 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.

²⁴In moj hlapec David bode kralj nad njimi in vsem bode eden pastir; in živeli bodo po sodbah mojih in postave moje bodo hranili in jih izpolnjevali.

²⁵And 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.

²⁵In prebivali bodo v deželi, ki sem jo dal Jakobu, hlapcu svojemu, ki so v njej prebivali očetje vaši; in domovali bodo v njej oni, njih sinovi in njih sinov otroci vekomaj; in moj hlapec David jim bode knez na veke.

²⁶Moreover 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.

²⁶In sklenem ž njimi zavezo miru, večna zaveza jim bode, in jih naselim ter jim pomnožim in postavim svetišče svoje v njih sredi na vekomaj.

²⁷My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

²⁷In prebivališče moje bode nad njimi, in bodem jim Bog in oni mi bodo ljudstvo.In narodi spoznajo, da sem jaz GOSPOD, ki posvečujem Izraela, ko bode svetišče moje v njih sredi na vekomaj.

²⁸And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.

²⁸In narodi spoznajo, da sem jaz GOSPOD, ki posvečujem Izraela, ko bode svetišče moje v njih sredi na vekomaj.