The Book of Ezekiel (WEB)
3:1 He said to me, Son of man, eat that which you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house
of Israel. 3:2So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll. 3:3He said to me, Son of man,
cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you. Then did I eat it; and it
was in my mouth as honey for sweetness. 3:4He said to me, Son of man, go, get you to the house of
Israel, and speak with my words to them. 3:5For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech
and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel; 3:6not to many peoples of a strange speech and of
a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would
listen to you. 3:7But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all
the house of Israel are of hard forehead and of a stiff heart. 3:8Behold, I have made your face hard
against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads. 3:9As an adamant harder than
flint have I made your forehead: don't be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks,
though they are a rebellious house. 3:10Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I
shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears. 3:11Go, get you to them of the
captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord
Yahweh; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. 3:12Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I
heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of Yahweh from his
place. 3:13I heard the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the
noise of the wheels beside them, even the noise of a great rushing. 3:14So the Spirit lifted me up,
and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Yahweh was
strong on me. 3:15Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that lived by the river Chebar,
and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days. 3:16It happened at
the end of seven days, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 3:17Son of man, I have made
you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them
warning from me. 3:18When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him no warning,
nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall
die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand. 3:19Yet if you warn the wicked, and he
doesn't turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you
have delivered your soul. 3:20Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and
commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given
him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be
remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand. 3:21Nevertheless if you warn the righteous
man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning;
and you have delivered your soul. 3:22The hand of Yahweh was there on me; and he said to me,
Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with you. 3:23Then I arose, and went forth into the
plain: and, behold, the glory of Yahweh stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river Chebar;
and I fell on my face. 3:24Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet; and he spoke with
me, and said to me, Go, shut yourself within your house. 3:25But you, son of man, behold, they shall
lay bands on you, and shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them: 3:26and I will
make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth, that you shall be mute, and shall not be to
them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house. 3:27But when I speak with you, I will open your
mouth, and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: He who hears, let him hear; and he
who forbears, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.
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