Ezekiel 37:1-8

11The Lord took hold of me with great power. In a vision, the Lord's Spirit took me to the middle of a valley. Bones covered all the ground there.

2The Lord made me walk up and down among the bones. I could see many bones there, on the ground in the valley. They were completely dry.

3He asked me, ‘Son of man, can these bones become alive again?’ I said, ‘Almighty Lord, only you know the answer.’

4Then he said to me, ‘Prophesy to these bones. Say to them, “Dry bones, listen to the Lord's message!

5This is what the Almighty Lord says to you bones: Listen! I will put breath into you and you will become alive.

6I will join you together and I will put meat on you. I will cover you with skin. I will put breath into you and you will become alive. Then you will know that I am the Lord.” ’

7So I prophesied, as the Lord had commanded me to do. While I was still speaking, there was a noise. It was the sound of the bones as they knocked against each other when they joined together.

8While I watched, I saw meat come and join to the bones. Then skin covered them. But there was no breath in them yet.