It lasted until the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year. On that day they broke through the city walls.

The hand of the Lord rested on me there, and he said to me, “Get up, go out to the valley, and I will speak with you there.”

So I got up and went out to the valley, and the glory of the Lord was standing there, just like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River, and I threw myself face down.

The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and placed me in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones.

He made me walk all around among them. I realized there were a great many bones in the valley and they were very dry.