³ And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.

¹⁵ And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

²⁶ I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

²⁷ Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.

²⁸ For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.