²² Then the Lord took hold of me and said, “Get up and go out into the valley, and I will speak to you there.”

⁶ Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

A Valley of Dry Bones

37 The Lord took hold of me, and I was carried away by the Spirit of the Lord to a valley filled with bones.

⁴ Suddenly, the glory of the God of Israel was there, just as I had seen it before in the valley.

³ (The Lord gave this message to Ezekiel son of Buzi, a priest, beside the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians,^[a] and he felt the hand of the Lord take hold of him.)

¹⁴ The Spirit lifted me up and took me away. I went in bitterness and turmoil, but the Lord’s hold on me was strong.