13 Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.
13 And 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,
13 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people.
13 When I dig up graves and bring you out as my people, you'll realize that I am God.
13 Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up from your graves.
13 When this happens, OÂ my people, you will know that I am the Lord .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 37:13
Commentary on Ezekiel 37:1-14
(Read Ezekiel 37:1-14)
No created power could restore human bones to life. God alone could cause them to live. Skin and flesh covered them, and the wind was then told to blow upon these bodies; and they were restored to life. The wind was an emblem of the Spirit of God, and represented his quickening powers. The vision was to encourage the desponding Jews; to predict both their restoration after the captivity, and also their recovery from their present and long-continued dispersion. It was also a clear intimation of the resurrection of the dead; and it represents the power and grace of God, in the conversion of the most hopeless sinners to himself. Let us look to Him who will at last open our graves, and bring us forth to judgment, that He may now deliver us from sin, and put his Spirit within us, and keep us by his power, through faith, unto salvation.