1 The Lord’s power overcame me, and while I was in the Lord’s spirit, he led me out and set me down in the middle of a certain valley. It was full of bones.
2 He led me through them all around, and I saw that there were a great many of them on the valley floor, and they were very dry.
3 He asked me, "Human one, can these bones live again?"I said, "Lord God, only you know."
4 He said to me, "Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, Dry bones, hear the Lord’s word!
5 The Lord God proclaims to these bones: I am about to put breath in you, and you will live again.
6 I will put sinews on you, place flesh on you, and cover you with skin. When I put breath in you, and you come to life, you will know that I am the Lord."
7 I prophesied just as I was commanded. There was a great noise as I was prophesying, then a great quaking, and the bones came together, bone by bone.