Ezekiel 37:13 (DRB)

Passage

And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have opened your sepulchres, and shall have brought you out of your graves, O my people:

Nearby Context

Ezekiel 37:11 And he said to me: Son of man: All these bones are the house of Israel: they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost, and we are cut off.

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

Ezekiel 37:13 And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have opened your sepulchres, and shall have brought you out of your graves, O my people:

Ezekiel 37:14 And shall have put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall make you rest upon your own land: and you shall know that I the Lord have spoken, and done it, saith the Lord God:

Ezekiel 37:15 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "shall", "lord", "opened", "sepulchres", "brought", and "graves". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "shall" and "lord", 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 to them Thus..." into verse 14's "And shall have put my spirit in...", so "shall" and "lord" 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 "lord" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.