Ezekiel 3:10
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New International Version (©2011)
And he said to me, "Son of man, listen carefully and take to heart all the words I speak to you.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then he added, "Son of man, let all my words sink deep into your own heart first. Listen to them carefully for yourself.

English Standard Version (©2001)
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.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Moreover, He said to me, "Son of man, take into your heart all My words which I will speak to you and listen closely.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Next He said to me: "Son of man, listen carefully to all My words that I speak to you and take them to heart.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Next, he told me, "Son of Man, take to heart every word that I'm telling you. Listen carefully,

NET Bible (©2006)
And he said to me, "Son of man, take all my words that I speak to you to heart and listen carefully.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He also said to me, "Son of man, take to heart everything I have spoken to you, and listen closely.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
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.

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thy heart, and hear with thine ears.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to me: Son of man, receive in thy heart, and hear with thy ears, all the words that I speak to thee:

Darby Bible Translation
And he said unto me, Son of man, all my words which I shall speak unto thee, receive in thy heart, and hear with thine ears;

English Revised Version
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shalt speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.

Webster's Bible Translation
Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to thee receive in thy heart, and hear with thy ears.

World English Bible
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.

Young's Literal Translation
And He saith unto me, 'Son of man, all My words, that I speak unto thee, receive with thy heart, and with thine ears hear;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:1-11 Ezekiel was to receive the truths of God as the food for his soul, and to feed upon them by faith, and he would be strengthened. Gracious souls can receive those truths of God with delight, which speak terror to the wicked. He must speak all that, and that only, which God spake to him. How can we better speak God's mind than with his words? If disappointed as to his people, he must not be offended. The Ninevites were wrought upon by Jonah's preaching, when Israel was unhumbled and unreformed. We must leave this unto the Divine sovereignty, and say, Lord, thy judgments are a great deep. They will not regard the word of the prophet, for they will not regard the rod of God. Christ promises to strengthen him. He must continue earnest in preaching, whatever the success might be.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 10. - All my words, etc. The stress lies on the first word. The prophet was not to pick and choose out of the message, but was to deliver "all the counsel of God" (Acts 20:27). Take into thine heart, etc. An inverted order of the two commands would, perhaps, have seemed more natural. What we actually find, however, is sufficiently suggestive. The message of Jehovah is first received into the inner depths of the soul, but in that stage it is vague, undefined, incommunicable. It needs to be clothed in articulate speech before it can be heard with the mental ear and passed on to others. The mouth speaks out of the fulness of the heart.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Moreover he said unto me, son of man,.... The same glorious Person as before continued speaking to him, and added, as follows:

all my words that I shall speak unto thee; not only what he had spoken to him, but what he should hereafter; for he did not tell all at once what he should say, but gradually, revealing his mind to him by little and little; but then he was to receive all that he should say, and reject nothing, nor shun to declare the whole counsel of God:

receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears; what the Lord says should not only be diligently attended to, and heard with eagerness, but should be received, in the love of it, into the heart, and laid, up in the mind and memory, in order to be delivered out to others at a proper time.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

10. receive in … heart … ears—The transposition from the natural order, namely, first receiving with the ears, then in the heart, is designed. The preparation of the heart for God's message should precede the reception of it with the ears (compare Pr 16:1; Ps 10:17).

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Ezekiel Eats the Scroll
…9As 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. 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. 11And go, get you to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, Thus said the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. …

Job 22:22 Accept instruction from his mouth and lay up his words in your heart.
Ezekiel 2:7 You must speak my words to them, whether they listen or fail to listen, for they are rebellious.
Ezekiel 2:8 But you, son of man, listen to what I say to you. Do not rebel like that rebellious people; open your mouth and eat what I give you."
Ezekiel 3:1 And he said to me, "Son of man, eat what is before you, eat this scroll; then go and speak to the people of Israel."
Ezekiel 3:9 I will make your forehead like the hardest stone, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or terrified by them, though they are a rebellious people."
Ezekiel 3:11 Go now to your people in exile and speak to them. Say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says,' whether they listen or fail to listen."