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EZEKIEL ยท Chapter 3
3:1 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that you find; eat this
roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.
3:2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
3:3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill
your bowels with this roll that I give you. Then did I eat it; and it was
in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
3:4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get you unto the house of
Israel, and speak with my words unto them.
3:5 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an
hard language, but to the house of Israel;
3:6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language,
whose words you can not understand. Surely, had I sent you to them, they
would have hearkened unto you.
3:7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto you; for they will
not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are shameless and hardhearted.
3:8 Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your
forehead strong against their foreheads.
3:9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: fear
them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious
house.
3:10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall
speak unto you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.
3:11 And go, get you to them of the captivity, unto the children of
your people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord GOD;
whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
3:12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a
great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.
3:13 I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that
touched one another, and the noise of the wheels opposite to them, and
a noise of a great rushing.
3:14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness,
in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.
3:15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by
the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished
among them seven days.
3:16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of
the LORD came unto me, saying,
3:17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman unto the house of Israel:
therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
3:18 When I say unto the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give
him not 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.
3:19 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness,
nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered
your soul.
3:20 Again, 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
righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood
will I require at your hand.
3:21 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous
sin not, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned;
also you have delivered your soul.
3:22 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me,
Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with you.
3:23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the
glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of
Chebar: and I fell on my face.
3:24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and
spoke with me, and said unto me, Go, shut yourself within your house.
3:25 But you, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon you,
and shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them:
3:26 And I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth,
that you shall be dumb, and shall not be to them a reprover: for they are
a rebellious house.
3:27 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall
say unto them, Thus says the Lord GOD; He that hears, let him hear; and
he that forbears, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.
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