NHEBJE - Ezekiel - 3

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."

3:2  So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.

3:3  He said to me, "Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you." Then I ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.

3:4  He said to me, "Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.

3:5  For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;

3:6  not 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.

3:7  But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.

3:8  Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.

3:9  As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: do not be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house."

3:10  Moreover 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.

3:11  Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, 'Thus says the Lord Jehovah'; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

3:12  Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, saying, "Blessed be the glory of Jehovah from his place."

3:13  I 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.

3:14  So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the anger of my spirit; and the hand of Jehovah was strong on me.

3:15  Then I came to them of the exiles at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.

3:16  It happened at the end of seven days, that the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

3:17  "Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me.

3:18  When 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; that 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 doesn't turn 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 righteous deeds 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 not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul."

3:22  The hand of Jehovah was there on me; and he said to 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 Jehovah stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.

3:24  Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet; and he spoke with me, and said to me, "Go, shut yourself inside your house.

3:25  But 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:

3:26  and I will make your tongue stick 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.

3:27  But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, 'Thus says the Lord Jehovah': He who hears, let him hear; and he who forbears, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.