² He led me all around among the bones that covered the valley floor. They were scattered everywhere across the ground and were completely dried out.

¹¹ Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones represent the people of Israel. They are saying, ‘We have become old, dry bones—all hope is gone. Our nation is finished.’

³⁰ (These two mountains are west of the Jordan River in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Jordan Valley,^[a] near the town of Gilgal, not far from the oaks of Moreh.)