¹¹ By you I was clothed with skin and flesh, and joined together with bones and muscles.

¹⁷ He is covered by the branches of the trees; the grasses of the stream are round him.

¹⁸ Truly, if the river is overflowing, it gives him no cause for fear; he has no sense of danger, even if Jordan is rushing against his mouth.

⁴ And again he said to me, Be a prophet to these bones, and say to them, O you dry bones, give ear to the word of the Lord.

⁵ This is what the Lord has said to these bones: See, I will make breath come into you so that you may come to life;

⁶ And I will put muscles on you and make flesh come on you, and put skin over you, and breath into you, so that you may have life; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

⁷ So I gave the word as I was ordered: and at my words there was a shaking of the earth, and the bones came together, bone to bone.

⁸ And looking I saw that there were muscles on them and flesh came up, and they were covered with skin: but there was no breath in them.

² For in this we are crying in weariness, greatly desiring to be clothed with our house from heaven:

³ So that our spirits may not be unclothed.

¹⁶ Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.