“When the sticks
On which
You write
Are in your hand,
Before their eyes,
Then say to them.
Thus says Yahweh God!
‘I will take
The people of Israel
From the nations
Among which
They have gone.
I will gather them
From every quarter.
I will bring them
To their own land.
I will make them
One nation
In the land,
On the mountains of Israel.
One king
Shall be king
Over them all.
Never again
Shall there be
Two nations.
Never again
Shall they be divided
Into two kingdoms.’”
Yahweh told Ezekiel to gather the two written sticks in his hand before the people. Then he was to tell them what Yahweh had said. Yahweh was going to gather all the Israelites from the various places where they were living. He was going to bring them back to their own land. Yahweh was going to make them one nation in the mountainous land of Israel. They would have one king over them. Never again would there be two nations, divided into two kingdoms. There would be one nation and one kingdom with one king.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 