So I prophesied as I had been commanded. While I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone.

When they pass through the land and one of them sees a human bone, he will set up a marker next to it until the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.

I will put hooks in your jaws
and make the fish of your streams
cling to your scales.
I will haul you up
from the middle of your Nile,
and all the fish of your streams
will cling to your scales.

I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws, and bring you out with all your army, including horses and riders, who are all splendidly dressed, a huge company armed with shields and bucklers, all of them brandishing swords.

He said to me, “Prophesy concerning these bones and say to them: Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look how they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

I will lay the corpses of the Israelites in front of their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.

Place the pieces of meat in it,
every good piece—
thigh and shoulder.
Fill it with choice bones.

Take the choicest of the flock
and also pile up the fuel under it.
Bring it to a boil
and cook the bones in it.”

Pile on the logs and kindle the fire!
Cook the meat well
and mix in the spices!
Let the bones be burned!

They do not lie down
with the fallen warriors of the uncircumcised,
who went down to Sheol
with their weapons of war,
whose swords were placed under their heads.
The punishment for their sins
rested on their bones,
although the terror of these warriors
was once in the land of the living.

The hand of the Lord was on me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones.

Then He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”

I replied, “Lord God, only You know.”

This is what the Lord God says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live.