Ezekiel 37:11

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“Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’”

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BSBPD

“Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“And He saith unto me, `Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; lo, they are saying: Dried up have our bones, And perished hath our hope, We have been cut off by ourselves.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 37:11 — 22 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 17:12Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost!
  2. Job 17:15where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
  3. Psalms 31:23Love the LORD, all His saints. The LORD preserves the faithful, but fully repays the arrogant.
  4. Psalms 77:7“Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again?
  5. Psalms 88:5I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.
  6. Psalms 141:7As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
  7. Isaiah 40:27Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God”?
  8. Isaiah 49:14But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”
  9. Jeremiah 2:25You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’
  10. Jeremiah 31:1“At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.”
  11. Jeremiah 33:24“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.
  12. Lamentations 3:18So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
  13. Lamentations 3:54The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
  14. Ezekiel 36:10I will multiply the people upon you—the house of Israel in its entirety. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.
  15. Ezekiel 37:1The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones.
  16. Ezekiel 37:16“And you, son of man, take a single stick and write on it: ‘Belonging to Judah and to the Israelites associated with him.’ Then take another stick and write on it: ‘Belonging to Joseph—the stick of Ephraim—and to all the house of Israel associated with him.’
  17. Ezekiel 37:19you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel associated with him, and I will put them together with the stick of Judah. I will make them into a single stick, and they will become one in My hand.’
  18. Ezekiel 39:25Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Now I will restore Jacob from captivity and will have compassion on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for My holy name.
  19. Hosea 1:11Then the people of Judah and of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint for themselves one leader, and will go up out of the land. For great will be the day of Jezreel.
  20. Romans 11:26And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob.
  21. 2 Corinthians 5:14For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
  22. Ephesians 2:1And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

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