Oh thou all powerful Jehovah, that workest, and none can let thee; that hath the keys of hell and of death, pity thou the dead souls that lie here entombed, and roll away the grave-stone, and say, as to Lazarus when already stinking, Come forth. Lighten thou this darkness, O inaccessible light, and let the day spring from on high, visit the darksome region of the dead to whom I speak: for thou canst open the eyes that death it self hath closed. Thou that formedst the ear, canst restore the hearing. Say thou to these ears, Ephatah, and they shall be opened. Give thou eyes to see thine excellencies; a taste that may relish thy sweetness; a scent that may savour thine ointments; a feeling ⟨p. 109⟩that may sense the privilege of thy favour, the burden of thy wrat•, the weight intolerable of unpardoned sin: and give thy servant command to prophesy to the dry bones, and let the effect of t•is prophecy be, as of thy Prophet, when he prophesied the valley of dry bones into a living army, exceeding great, Ezek. 37. 1. &c. The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley, which was full of bones. He said unto me, prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them; O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up fles• upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise and behold a shaking, and the bones came together bone to his bone. And when I beheld, Lo the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and covered them above, but there was no breath in them. Then said he unto me; prophesy unto the wind, prophesi• son of man, and say to the wind: thus saith the Lord God, come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
Oh thou all powerful Iehovah, that workest, and none can let thee; that hath the keyes of hell and of death, pity thou the dead souls that lie here intombed, and roll away the grave-stone, and say, as to Lazarus when already stinking, Come forth. Lighten thou this darkness, O inaccessible light, and let the day spring from on high, visit the darksome region of the dead to whom I speak: for thou canst open the eyes that death it self hath closed. Thou that formedst the ear, canst restore the hearing. Say thou to these ears, Ephatah, and they shall be opened. Give thou eyes to see thine excellencies; a taste that may relish thy sweetness; a scent that may savour thine ointments; a feeling ⟨p. 109⟩that may sense the priviledge of thy favour, the burden of thy wrat•, the weight intolerable of unpardoned sin: and give thy servant command to prophesie to the dry bones, and let the effect of t•is prophesie be, as of thy Prophet, when he prophesied the valley of dry bones into a living army, exceeding great, Ezek. 37. 1. &c. The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley, which was full of bones. He said unto me, prophesie upon these bones, and say unto them; O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up fles• upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise and behold a shaking, and the bones came together bone to his bone. And when I beheld, Loe the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and covered them above, but there was no breath in them. Then said he unto me; prophesie unto the wind, prophesi• son of man, and say to the wind: thus saith the Lord God, come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
