3. Then he asked me, “Son of man, can these bones become living people again?”“O Sovereign lord,” I replied, “you alone know the answer to that.”
4. Then he said to me, “Speak a prophetic message to these bones and say, ‘Dry bones, listen to the word of the lord!
5. This is what the Sovereign lord says: Look! I am going to put breath into you and make you live again!
6. I will put flesh and muscles on you and cover you with skin. I will put breath into you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the lord.’”
7. So I spoke this message, just as he told me. Suddenly as I spoke, there was a rattling noise all across the valley. The bones of each body came together and attached themselves as complete skeletons.
8. Then as I watched, muscles and flesh formed over the bones. Then skin formed to cover their bodies, but they still had no breath in them.
9. Then he said to me, “Speak a prophetic message to the winds, son of man. Speak a prophetic message and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign lord says: Come, O breath, from the four winds! Breathe into these dead bodies so they may live again.’”
10. So I spoke the message as he commanded me, and breath came into their bodies. They all came to life and stood up on their feet—a great army.