1-2. God grabbed me. God’s Spirit took me up and set me down in the middle of an open plain strewn with bones. He led me around and among them—a lot of bones! There were bones all over the plain—dry bones, bleached by the sun.
3. He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”I said, “Master God, only you know that.”
4. He said to me, “Prophesy over these bones: ‘Dry bones, listen to the Message of God!’”
9. He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath. Prophesy, son of man. Tell the breath, ‘God, the Master, says, Come from the four winds. Come, breath. Breathe on these slain bodies. Breathe life!’”
10. So I prophesied, just as he commanded me. The breath entered them and they came alive! They stood up on their feet, a huge army.
11. Then God said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Listen to what they’re saying: ‘Our bones are dried up, our hope is gone, there’s nothing left of us.’