Ezekiel 37:1–10

The Valley of Dry Bones

³⁷The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones.^{* 2}He led me all around them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. ³He said to me, “Mortal, can these bones live?” I answered, “O Lord God, you know.”^{* 4}Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. ⁵Thus says the Lord God to these bones: I will cause breath^p to enter you, and you shall live.^{* 6}I will lay sinews on you and will cause flesh to come upon you and cover you with skin and put breath^q in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord.”^*

⁷So I prophesied as I had been commanded, and as I prophesied, suddenly there was a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. ⁸I looked, and there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them, but there was no breath in them. ⁹Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, mortal, and say to the breath:^r Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath,^s and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.”^{* 10}I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, a vast multitude.^*