Ezekiel 37:13 (ASV)

Passage

And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, O my people.

Nearby Context

Ezekiel 37:11 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.

Ezekiel 37:12 Therefore prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, O my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.

Ezekiel 37:13 And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, O my people.

Ezekiel 37:14 And I will put my Spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I will place you in your own land: and ye shall know that I, Jehovah, have spoken it and performed it, saith Jehovah.

Ezekiel 37:15 The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying,

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "shall", "jehovah", "opened", "graves", "caused", "come", and "people". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "shall" and "jehovah", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 12's "Therefore prophesy and say unto them Thus..." into verse 14's "And I will put my Spirit in...", so "shall" and "jehovah" belong inside that flow. In Ezekiel context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "shall" and "jehovah" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.