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I: Preachers may from Ezekiel's case / Draw hope in this declining day.
A proof like this of sovereign grace / Should chase our unbelief away.
II: When sent to preach to mould'ring bones, / Who could have thought he would succeed?
But well he knew the Lord from stones / Could raise up Abr'am's chosen seed.
III: Can these be made a num'rous host, / And such dry bones new life receive?
The prophet answer'd -- "Lord, thou know'st / They shall, if thou commandment give."
IV: Like him around I cast my eye, / And oh! what heaps of bones appear; / Like him, by Jesus sent I'll try, / For he can cause the dead to hear.
V: Hear, ye dry bones, the Saviour's word, / He who when dying gasp'd -- "Forgive," --
That gracious sinner-loving Lord / Says -- "Look to me, dry bones, and live."
VI: Thou heav'nly wind, awake and blow, / In answer to the prayer of faith.
Now thine almighty infl'ence show, / And fill dry bones with living breath.
VII: O make them hear and feel and shake, / And at thy call obedient move.
The bonds of death and Satan break, / And bone to bone unite in love.