Ezekiel 3:4
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New International Version (©2011)
He then said to me: "Son of man, go now to the people of Israel and speak my words to them.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then he said, "Son of man, go to the people of Israel and give them my messages.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And he said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with my words to them.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then He said to me, "Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with My words to them.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then He said to me: "Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak My words to them.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then he told me, "Son of Man, go to the house of Israel and tell them what I have to say to them,

NET Bible (©2006)
He said to me, "Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He said to me, "Son of man, go to the people of Israel, and speak my words to them.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.

American King James Version
And he said to me, Son of man, go, get you to the house of Israel, and speak with my words to them.

American Standard Version
And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to me: Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and thou shalt speak my words to them.

Darby Bible Translation
And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.

English Revised Version
And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he said to me, Son of man, depart, go to the house of Israel, and speak with my words to them.

World English Bible
He said to me, Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.

Young's Literal Translation
And He saith unto me, 'Son of man, go, enter in unto the house of Israel, and thou hast spoken with My words unto them.

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.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he said unto me, son of man, go,.... After he had eaten the roll; for then was he qualified to prophesy:

get thee unto the house of Israel; to whom he was to prophesy:

and speak with my words unto them: not with his own words; nor with the words of men, the enticing words of man's wisdom; but with the words of Christ; with the taught words of the Holy Ghost; with what is written in the roll; the words of this prophecy are meant. So the Targum,

"and thou shalt prophesy the words of my prophecy unto them;''

in like manner John after he had eaten the little book, is told that he must prophesy before many people, nations, tongues, and kings, Revelation 10:9; though Ezekiel was only sent to one nation, as follows:

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Ezekiel Eats the Scroll
…3And he said to 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. 4And he said to me, Son of man, go, get you to the house of Israel, and speak with my words to them. 5For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel; …

Ezekiel 3:3 Then he said to me, "Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it." So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.
Ezekiel 3:5 You are not being sent to a people of obscure speech and strange language, but to the people of Israel--
Ezekiel 11:4 Therefore prophesy against them; prophesy, son of man."
Ezekiel 11:25 and I told the exiles everything the LORD had shown me.
Ezekiel 20:27 "Therefore, son of man, speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: In this also your ancestors blasphemed me by being unfaithful to me: