And He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are all the house of Yisra’ĕ
And you were dead in trespasses and sins,
“Therefore thus said the Master יהוה, ‘Now I am going to bring back the captives of Yaʽ
“And I shall increase men upon you, all the house of Yisra’ĕ
“At that time,” declares יהוה, “I shall be the Elohim of all the clans of Yisra’ĕ
But Tsiyon says, “יהוה has forsaken me, and יהוה has forgotten me.”
“And the children of Yehuḏ
“Keep your foot from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is useless, because I love strangers, and after them I go.’
Our bones are scattered at the mouth of the grave, As when one ploughs and breaks up the earth.
And so all Yisra’ĕ
say to them, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I am taking the stick of Yosĕ
“And you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it, ‘For Yehuḏ
Waters flowed over my head; I said, “I am cut off!”
Why do you say, O Yaʽ
For the love of Messiah compels us, having judged this: that if One died for all, then all died;
Released among the dead, Like slain ones lying in the grave, Whom You have remembered no more, And who have been cut off from Your hand.
Your fierce wrath has gone over me; Your onslaughts have cut me off.
‘And fields shall be bought in this land of which you are saying, “It is a wasteland, without man or beast. It has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.”
And I said, “My strength and my expectancy Have perished from יהוה.”
“And you, O son of man, say to the house of Yisra’ĕ
Where then is my expectancy? As for my expectancy, who would see it?
Love יהוה, all you His kind ones! For יהוה guards the trustworthy ones, And exceedingly repays the doer of pride.