You clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews.

It makes its tail stiff like a cedar, the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound.

I did this because I know how stubborn you are. Your neck muscles are like iron and your forehead like bronze.

That is why to this day the Israelites do not eat the sinew which is attached to the socket of the hip, because he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip near the attached sinew.

I will put tendons on you and muscles over you and will cover you with skin; I will put breath in you and you will live. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

As I watched, I saw tendons on them, then muscles appeared, and skin covered over them from above, but there was no breath in them.